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Social Media Data

A guide to acquiring social media data

Tools

Tools that collect, track, and/or analyze social media data:

  • Communalytic: A no-code computational social science research tool for studying online communities and public discourse on social media
  • Junkipedia: Track and analyze public content across 15 different social media platforms to monitor trends, track the spread of information (and misinformation), benchmark performance, and discover influential content
  • NCapture plug-in for NVivo: A free web-browser extension for Chrome that enables researchers to gather web content--including data from YouTube, LinkedIn, websites, and online PDFs--to import into NVivo
  • Social Media Research Toolkit: A list of 50+ social media research tools curated by researchers at the Social Media Lab at Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University