Events at The University of Manchester
  • University home
  • Events
  • Home
  • Exhibitions
  • Conferences
  • Lectures and seminars
  • Performances
  • Events for prospective students
  • Sustainability events
  • Family events
  • All Events

Gathering and analysing social media data from Twitter and YouTube

Dates:11 January 2017
Times:All day
What is it:Workshop
Organiser:Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research
How much:Fees For UK registered postgraduate students £30.00 For staff at UK academic institutions, ESRC funded researchers and registered charity organisations £60.00 For all other participants £220.00
Who is it for:University staff, Current University students, General public
Speaker:Prof Mike Thelwall
See travel and contact information
Add to your calendar

More information

  • More information

Other events

  • In category "Workshop"
  • By Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research

This course introduces free Windows-based software for collecting tweets and for downloading the sets of comments on YouTube videos. It also describes a range of keyword, network and graphical methods to analyse the data for social science research purposes, as supported by the software. This is a small scale style of big data research. The course includes a brief discussion of ethical and practical issues associated with social media data analysis. The practical sessions give an introduction to the free program, with supporting documentation for those wishing to become advanced users.

Objectives

Introduce methods to gather and analyse social media data, with a focus on Twitter and YouTube comments. Learn how to use the free Windows-based social media data analysis and gathering software Webometric Analyst.

Prerequisites

Participants should have at least basic knowledge of social media sites, including both Twitter and YouTube, and basic familiarity with Windows. The course is designed for social science and humanities researchers that would like to learn new methods to gather and analyse social media data, or that need to create corpora of social media data to research.

Price: Fees For UK registered postgraduate students £30.00 For staff at UK academic institutions, ESRC funded researchers and registered charity organisations £60.00 For all other participants £220.00

Speaker

Prof Mike Thelwall

Travel and Contact Information

Find event

Basement Lab
Humanities Bridgeford Street
Manchester

Contact event

Claire Spencer

0161 275 1980

claire.spencer@manchester.ac.uk

Contact us

  • +44 (0) 161 306 6000

Find us

The University of Manchester
Oxford Rd
Manchester
M13 9PL
UK

Connect with the University

  • Facebook page for The University of Manchester
  • X (formerly Twitter) page for The University of Manchester
  • YouTube page for The University of Manchester
  • Instagram page for The University of Manchester
  • TikTok page for The University of Manchester
  • LinkedIn page for The University of Manchester

  • Privacy /
  • Copyright notice /
  • Accessibility /
  • Freedom of information /
  • Charitable status /
  • Royal Charter Number: RC000797
  • Close menu
  • Home
    • Featured events
    • Today's events
    • The Whitworth events
    • Manchester Museum events
    • Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre events
    • Martin Harris Centre events
    • The John Rylands Library events
    • Exhibitions
    • Conferences
    • Lectures and seminars
    • Performances
    • Events for prospective students
    • Sustainability events
    • Family events
    • All events