2017 ttra Annual International Conference

Note: this session will be offered in 2 parts - Part I will cover text analysis and Part II will cover network analysis with social media data.

The workshops will explain to participants how to study online communities and social networks and apply some of the new tools and methods for analyzing and visualizing social media data developed by the Social Media Lab. Participants will learn how social media is changing the ways in which people communicate and disseminate information and how these changes impact the social, economic and political structures of modern society. The broad aim is to provide researchers with the skills needed to help decision makers with additional knowledge into the behaviors and relationships of online network members by extracting actionable insights from large social media datasets. One such tool is Netlytic, a cloud-based text and social networks analyzer that can automatically summarize large volumes of text and discover social networks from conversations on social media sites such as Twitter, Youtube, blogs, online forums and chats. Participants are encouraged to bring their laptops to follow the workshop instructions.