How do vaccine and climate policy debates unfold online—and how can social scientists study them rigorously at scale? Join this lunch-and-learn session for practical insights on using computational methods to analyze social media data.
Johanna Klapproth (PhD Candidate, University of Münster) and Mark Shakespear (PhD Candidate, UBC Sociology) will present original research on vaccine and climate policy narratives on social media, highlighting methods such as topic modeling, multivariate time-series analysis, and mixed qualitative–computational interpretation.
Together with Laura Nelson (Director, Centre for Computational Social Science) and Chris Tenove (Assistant Director, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions), the speakers will discuss the strengths, limitations, and trade-offs of different research strategies, and how these can inform political and policymaking analysis. Lunch will be provided.
If you are interested in attending, please register here.
The event is sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions and the Centre for Computational Social Science, with support from the Bridge Research Consortium.
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