Sander A. Schwartz

Save the date‼️ We are so excited to host the conference Media and Publics at Roskilde University with Nancy Fraser, @NoortjeMarres, @zizip, and @annliffey as speakers. It’s going to be on-site+digital, and it’s going to be great! 🗓️ 28-29 April 2022 Info and registration ⬇️

Read the original thread by @neil_chilson and the response/ context/ rebuttal provided by @RebekahKTromble on the (alleged) risks of academic research and Facebook ⬇️⬇️⬇️

I also really like this study on Facebook Reactions to Political Party Posts in 79 Democracies: journalqd.org/article/view/2… This provides useful benchmarks for comparison and could make a great reference point for my later publications on social media, emotions and populism

Browsing through the exiting new journal JQD:DM. Many interesting studies in 1st volume, such as this one, which re-confirms, that sharing fake news occurs more frequently in the oldest age groups rather than younger: journalqd.org/article/view/2…

Why do we need a Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media? Read the "manifesto" from founding co-editors Kevin Munger @kmmunger, Andy Guess @andyguess and Eszter Hargittai @eszter journalqd.org/article/view/2…

Excited to see the launch of the new Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media by @andyguess @eszter @kmmunger - a much-needed new journal with a compelling rationale and approach journalqd.org/article/view/2… All kinds of cool stuff in the first issue! Open access!

New paper: "The Danish Gigaword Corpus" - a clean, open, billion-word corpus of Danish stretching across domains, modalities, time, dialect, ... To be presented at #nodalida w/ @ManuelCiosici #nlproc

In the article "Trust, Disconnection, Minimizing risk and Apathy", @JannieHart and @54ndr explore a compass of coping tactics in datafied everyday lives. Read the article here: tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur/ar…

If you haven't already explored the latest issue of @MedieKultur on the #datafication of #media and #audiences, we highly recommend it! Great contributions from among other @JannieHart, @54ndr, @SophusLai, @SofieFlensburg, @jannicksorensen and @rasmusrex. tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur/is…

Facebook says its analytics tool Crowdtangle, built to show what’s popular on Facebook, is not so great at showing what’s popular on Facebook about.fb.com/news/2020/11/w…

@fabiogiglietto But you might be able to study reach/engagement relations through FORT-data access, or? (even if case differs)

@54ndr I'm just reporting a statement from Facebook itself. The point is that is hard for anyone outside the company to verify this claim.

"Engagement does not predict reach", an early morning thread 👇 (1/4) about.fb.com/news/2020/11/w…

As a publisher (or platform) it’s not a good sign that you are having to explain your attention data with caveats and extra charts - and tell people effectively ‘you are not looking at what you think you are looking at’ about.fb.com/news/2020/11/w…

@katemiltner Of course! This is what I wanted all along: a-lalalalalong, a-lalalalalong-long-li-long-long-long...

during the March lock-down, the membership and interactions of pages/groups known for spreading conspiracy theories multiplied and many new venues has been created. Today, we experiencing the effect of this with widespread protests & covid skepticism. youtube.com/watch?v=1VGV7x…

@katemiltner Now you need to make that album happen! Goes without saying that this album should include a cover of Total Eclipse of the Heart...

@fabiogiglietto @crowdtangle This looks great! I was wondering whether we should provide some kind of methods explanation for these dashboards, since the interface does not provide the context (selection criteria, lists, search words etc.). Not sure how or what but perhaps a text document of sorts?

we have a new public @crowdtangle live display to make it easier for journalists to cover trending posts supporting the ongoing protests against anti-covid measures in Italy: apps.crowdtangle.com/mine2018/board… (and yes, sputnik italia is currently n. 5 in the page leader-board)

Goodbye Flash! Hated by the elite, but loved by the people. #casualgaming adobe.com/dk/products/fl…

There are the details. And there is this: Mark Zuckerberg, alone, gets to set key rules—with significant consequences—for one of the most important elections in recent history. That should not be lost in the dust of who these changes will hurt or benefit. nytimes.com/2020/09/03/tec…