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Pablo Velasco // Information Studies // pablov.me

Subject / field

• Science and Technology Studies

• Cultural Theory (Digital Cultures)

• (Digital Methods)

Research question

(clear - relevant - feasible)

How do sources (URLs) offered as "proof" or "validation" within vaccination discussion on (danish) Facebook are networked between each other?

• Are there main sources for argumentation on the topic?
• Which controversies are generated through these sources?
• To what degree is it possible to identify their networked publics?

Method(s)

(Cross-media controversy analysis of media sources)

Data Collection:

1. URLs / media titles containing vaccine-related keywords + Text from selected accounts (snowballed)
2. URLs from posts and comments from selected (snowballed) accounts

Analysis:

1. Thematic analysis (of documents/websites)
2. Controversy Analysis / Issue Mapping (of social media dynamics and networks)

• Home-made scraper (or manual collection)
• DMI tools https://medialab.sciencespo.fr/en/tools/dmi-tools
• MediaLab tools https://medialab.sciencespo.fr/en/tools/

Theory/Concepts

(in-tune with methods and research goals)

1. Networked Publics / Sociotechnical imaginaries (STS / Social Construction of Technology)

2. Controversies/Issues (ANT/ STS)

3. Network analysis - tool criticism (Digital Methods methodological issues)

Looking for literature

General (academic) search engines

• Web of Science/Knowledge https://apps.webofknowledge.com/
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/
• Science Direct https://www.sciencedirect.com/
• Frontiers https://www.frontiersin.org/
  
  

Is this a good source? (it always depends!)

• IMPACT: InCites https://jcr.clarivate.com
• SCORE: Citescore, SNIP, and SJR: https://www.scopus.com/sources
• RANKS Scimago https://www.scimagojr.com/

Core journals (for Pablo's research)

• Theory, Culture & Society https://journals.sagepub.com/home/tcs
• Big Data and Society https://journals.sagepub.com/home/bds
• New Media & Society https://journals.sagepub.com/home/nms
• First monday https://firstmonday.org/https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/674
• Computational culture http://computationalculture.net
• Ephemera http://www.ephemerajournal.org/
  
  

Other relevant sources (for Pablo's research)

• Tactical Technology Collective https://tacticaltech.org/
• Share Lab https://labs.rs
• Issue Mapping http://issuemapping.net/
• Public Data lab http://publicdatalab.org/
• Digital Methods Initiative https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/DmiAbout

Search queries

• "networked publics" at royal library: https://soeg.kb.dk/discovery/search?query=any,contains,networked publics&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=45KBDK_KGL:KGL&offset=0

• "'controversy analysis'" in Big Data & Society https://journals.sagepub.com/action/doSearch?content=articlesChapters&countTerms=true&target=default&field1=AllField&text1="controversy+analysis"&field2=AllField&text2=&publication[]=bdsa&Ppub=&Ppub=&AfterYear=&BeforeYear=&earlycite=on&access=

• "vacc* controversy" in all Sage journals https://journals.sagepub.com/action/doSearch?filterOption=allJournal&AllField=vacc*+controversy

• "sociotechnical imaginaries AND controversy" (in google scholar) https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=da&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=sociotechnical+imaginaries+AND+controversy&btnG=