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SUMMARY: Computational Social Science in Action: Studying Vaccine and Clima
 te Policy Narratives
DESCRIPTION: How do vaccine and climate policy debates unfold online—and ho
 w can social scientists study them rigorously at scale? Join this lunch-and
 -learn session for practical insights on using computational methods to ana
 lyze social media data. 
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1
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 style="font-weight: 400\;">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. </span></p><p><b>Johanna Klapproth</b
 ><span style="font-weight: 400\;"> (PhD Candidate\, University of Münster) 
 and </span><b>Mark Shakespear</b><span style="font-weight: 400\;"> (PhD Can
 didate\, UBC Sociology</span><b>)</b><span style="font-weight: 400\;"> will
  present original research on vaccine and climate policy narratives on soci
 al media\, highlighting methods such as topic modeling\, multivariate time-
 series analysis\, and mixed qualitative–computational interpretation. </spa
 n></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400\;">Together with </span><b>Laura Nel
 son </b><span style="font-weight: 400\;">(Director\, Centre for Computation
 al Social Science) and </span><b>Chris Tenove </b><span style="font-weight:
  400\;">(Assistant Director\, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutio
 ns)\, the speakers will discuss the strengths\, limitations\, and trade-off
 s of different research strategies\, and how these can inform political and
  policymaking analysis. Lunch will be provided.</span></p><p>If you are int
 erested in attending\, please <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/computat
 ional-social-science-in-action-vaccine-climate-policy-narratives-tickets-19
 82401921512">register here</a>.</p><p>The event is sponsored by the <a href
 ="https://democracy.ubc.ca/">Centre for the Study of Democratic Institution
 s</a> and the <a href="https://ccss.arts.ubc.ca/">Centre for Computational 
 Social Science</a>\, with support from the <a href="https://bridgerc.ca/">B
 ridge Research Consortium</a>.</p><p>We invite you to share this event with
  graduate students and other colleagues in your networks who might be inter
 ested.</p>
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