The Blog of the Social Media Research Foundation.
A design and policy proposal for improving the democratic quality of social media Marc Smith and Ben Shneiderman The fear of filter bubbles is a common concern in social media discussions. The threat of closed worlds of perception that lead…
A design and policy proposal for improving the quality of social media Marc Smith and Ben Shneiderman The great promise of social media is being eclipsed by the dismal reality of abuse and attack that many users experience. Athletes, celebrities,…
NodeXL Pro - How to request an API Code for YouTube The updated YouTube Importer for NodeXL Pro (version 430 and later) enables users to collect more data by using their own Google Developer API Key. The following steps take…
Many users have data sets of collected tweets that they would like to import into NodeXL for social media network analysis. In many cases these data sets are in non-standard formats and have a variety of data elements. Processing these…
On September 4th, 2019, Facebook has changed its API with the result that many research apps accessing public posts are no longer functional. The NodeXL Facebook data importers are also affected by this change. Our team has requested permission to…
In July 2019, Morgan Kaufmann has published the second edition of the NodeXL book titled Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World authored by Derek Hansen, Ben Shneiderman, Itai Himmelboim and Marc Smith. The book is…