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Week 1 - Social Media Landscape & Visualising Social Media Networks

Readings

Required Readings.

Parts of these readings and themes from them will be covered in the video lecture.

Additional Readings

Video Lecture

Lecture Notes

These notes provide the background reading to work through the self-guided tutorial.

Self-Guided Lab

Topic: Collecting Social Media Data and Visualising Social Media Networks

Demonstration Video

Topic: We use rtweet to access Twitter data and then plot the retweet and mention network using tidygraph and ggraph.

GitHub repo with code & data.

Quiz

  • Link to Quiz on Canvas
    • Due by 23.59 on 17 April 2021

Discussion Class

  • Submit the topics you want to discuss in our live session on April 29 and April 30