About the Lab. The NU Social Media Lab studies how social media — defined broadly as technologies that facilitate social behavior among people — are used for work and play. We are interested in understanding both how social media are used today, and how technologies might be designed to better support people’s existing goals and enable.
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vosonSML R package
Download vosonSML from CRAN , GitHub (development version).
vosonSML documentation vosonSML vignette
vosonSML documentation vosonSML vignette
Note: vosonSML is the new name for the R package that was previously called SocialMediaLab. Some of the materials below refer to the old package name.
vosonSML is an R package that provides a suite of tools for collecting and constructing networks from social media data. It provides easy-to-use functions for collecting data across popular platforms (Twitter, YouTube and Reddit) and generating different types of networks for analysis.
Bryan Gertzel is the lead developer and maintainer of vosonSML. vosonSML was originally created by Tim Graham and Robert Ackland, with contributions Chung-hong Chan.
Important!It is no longer possible to use vosonSML collect data from Facebook, due to changes in the API (v2.11) which came into effect in February 2018. These API changes meant that it was no longer possible to identify the Facebook users who like or comments on posts on Facebook pages, unless the API access token is created by the page's owner, making it impossible to construct networks.
The package can be found on CRAN and the development version is available on github.
Facebook collection in vosonSML is broken, due to changes in the API (v2.11) which came into effect in February 2018. Due to Instagram API changes effective 1 June 2016, vosonSML can no longer be used to collect Instagram data.
The present page provides some R scripts to help get you started using vosonSML and also information on associated training workshops and obtaining API access (*Facebook, Twitter, YouTube).
General Information
R helper script and tutorials
Absolute Beginner's Guide to the SocialMediaLab Package in R (for version 0.20.1)
Pdf and Rmd versions available
SocialMediaLab Tutorial (for version 0.20.1)
Pdf and Rmd versions available
Topic modeling of tweets in R: a tutorial and methodology
Find tutorial HERE
SocialMediaLab Tutorial for International Communication Association (ICA) 2017 Conference
Pdf and Rmd files
More information
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Training workshops using vosonSML
Visit this page containing previous training workshops on network and text analysis involving the use of vosonSML and other R packages.
Obtaining API access (Twitter and Youtube)
This page provides some information on how to get API credentials for Twitter and Youtube.
Robots are an intriguing technology that can straddle both the physical and social world of people. Inspired by animal and human behavior, our goal is to build capable robotic creatures with a 'living' presence, and to gain a better understanding of how humans will interact with this new kind of technology. In familiar human terms, people will physically interact, communicate, understand, and teach the robots, which will ultimately possess the social savvy, physical adeptness, and everyday common sense to partake in people's daily lives in useful and rewarding ways. Robots are an intriguing technology that can straddle both the physical and social world of people. Inspired by animal and human behavior, our goal is to build capable robotic creatures with a 'living' presence, and to gain a better understanding of how humans will interact with this new kind of technology.
In familiar human terms, people will physically interact, communicate, understand, and teach the robots, which will ultimately possess the social savvy, physical adeptness, and everyday common sense to partake in people's daily lives in useful and rewarding ways.
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