@rra and I have a new, #OpenAccess article out: "Shifting your research from X to Mastodon? Here's what you need to know"
https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2666-3899%2823%2900323-9
This article is an opinion piece in which we argue that social scientists cannot simply port their work from X to #Mastodon or the rest of the #fediverse. There are key differences in culture, expectations of privacy, and of course topology to consider.
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Great stuff. Something I saw downplayed, however, is how Cambridge Analytica was not only a big deal for the Fediverse; but also Twitter/X. Deen Freelon predicted something of a post-API era to trickle down from Facebook as social media platforms cease to be "town squares" and shift towards gated communities. I'm not saying this be apologetic, but it is important to see how both X and fediverse address the same issue:
https://socialmediaandpolitics.org/53-digital-methods-post-api-era-deen-freelon/
Dr. Deen Freelon, Assoicate Professor in the School of Media and Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, discusses how researcher collect and analyze social media data to study politics. We talk about Facebook’s recent API shut-down, the new Social Science One initiative, differences between Python and R programming languages, and one...
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There is also a readable version of the Post-API here, if preffered
http://dfreelon.org/publications/2018_Computational_research_in_the_postAPI_age.pdf
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