Edited on 10/20: Added info about specific users, more numbers. Carly Kocurek, one of my smart and savvy IIT colleagues, pointed out that the #GamerGate and #StopGamerGate2014 discussions on Twitter are worth examining. So, I fired up a TwitterGoggles instance to track those hastags and these others she recommended: #quinnspiracy #gamergate #notyourshield #StopGamerGate2014 #academicANDfeminist #gamerfruit...

I teach a methods course called Research Methods in Digital Humanities that’s geared toward our digital humanities majors and technology and humanities graduate students. Our basic course materials include the useful Digital_Humanities text from MIT Press, Python tutorials from Codecademy, and a few videos on our class YouTube Channel. My goals for the course are...

A list of further resources from my Sept. 29, 2014 talk Teaching Students to Lie, Mislead, and Manipulate with Information Visualizations. The talk slides are also available at SlideShare. Data for the examples is available on Google Drive. Programming/Web Libraries JavaScript: d3js.org R: shiny.rstudio.com Web-based Visualization Tools DataHero: https://datahero.com/ ManyEyes: www.ibm.com/manyeyes Software Tools Tableau:...

I gave a talk at Social Media Week Chicago with Prof. Ed Lee from IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law this week. We are studying a number of online political protests including the February 11, 2014 #StoptheNSA protest spearheaded by the Day We Fight Back. Here are the summary statistics about that day on Twitter:...

Sometimes Congress, sometimes the press, it turns out. Matt Shapiro and I wrote a paper for this month’s Midwest Political Science Association meeting in which we analyzed the timing of tweets with hashtags and New York Times articles with keywords and found … news coverage and Twitter activity from the previous day are good predictors...

I gave a talk at the DIMACS Workshop on Building Communities for Transforming Social Media Research Through New Approaches for Collecting, Analyzing, and Exploring Social Media Data at Rutgers University last week. Here are my slides and roughly what I said: Connecting and Collecting On and Offline Political Network Data from Libby Hemphill Many of...

I’m working on a paper for the Midwest Political Science Association meeting in which we analyze whether policy issues appear first in Congress’s tweets on in the popular press. We’re using all articles from the New York Times, including those from the Associated Press, Reuters, and other providers, as “popular press” content. In order...

I haven’t blogged about my own research process in a while. Tonight I thought I might, and I found this incomplete post in my “Drafts” folder. I originally drafted it in the fall of 2009. Rather than expand it now, I thought I’d just release it into the wild. I’m not editing it because...

Edited 02/25/2013 My colleagues and I in the Department of Humanities at IIT are hard at work developing new MS and PhD programs in Technology and Humanities, and I’m blogging to tell you more about them. The impetus for my post is a question Nathan Matias (@natematias) asked at a CSCW 2014 panel on...

I’ll be jumping back into work next semester. What better way to kick off my return than a trip to CSCW 2014 in Baltimore?! I’m organizing the Feminism and Social Media Research Workshop on Sunday, participating in the panel The Ethos and Pragmatics of Data Sharing, and presenting a paper called Tweet Acts: How...