Using Social Media Data in Research—Whether You’re in English Lit or Information Science
Recommendations for working with, citing, and sharing social media data in research — with updates after Elon Musks’ Twitter takeover
2023
2021
Introducing an Interactive Textbook for Cultural Analysis with Python
A brief overview of my work-in-progress textbook, and why I made it with the awesome new resource Jupyter Book
2019
A Million Tweeted Tributes to Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison, one of the best and most influential literary writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, died on Monday. She was the first Black woman to win the...
Mourning Mary Oliver in 100,000+ Tweets
I saw her lift her honeyed muzzle into the leaves, and her thick arms, as though she would fly - an enormous bee all sweetness and wings - -Mary Oliver, ...
2017
Things That The U.S. Presidents Described as “Great” in Their Inaugural Addresses
For the February 2017 meeting of the Digital Approaches Reading Group (DARG), which I help co-convene at WashU, we explored 58 Presidential Inaugural Address...
2016
“The Mythology of James Baldwin on Twitter”
The following is a transcript from my paper “Tweets of a Native Son: The Mythology of James Baldwin on Twitter,” which I gave at the MMLA conference on Novem...
Part 2: Building the “Tweets of a Native Son” Archive (jq and regular expressions)
In Part 1, I explained how I “hydrated” 17 million tweets that mentioned “Ferguson” from August and November 2014 by using twarc and how I generated summarie...
Part 1: Building the “Tweets of a Native Son” Archive (twarc and twarc-report)
So my project “Tweets of a Native Son” examines the way that Twitter conversations about Ferguson and the #BlackLivesMater movement invoke the literary autho...
Introduction: “Tweets of a Native Son”
I started this blog largely because I wanted to start sharing some thoughts and updates about my project “Tweets of a Native Son,” a large-scale computationa...