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This X-Student Research Group will focus on how political communication can help us to understand political processes and protest movements by analysing social media data. The project is directed towards students who have an interest in Computational Social Science Methods. This includes students from Political Science, Sociology, or any related fields as well as students from Computer Science who share an interest in the Social Sciences. We will discuss different quantitative methods to analyse political and protest rhetoric by looking at various online text sources. Afterwards, students will pick one data source and define their own research goal. The course teaches students (i) state-of-the-art literature of online communication in politics and protest; (ii) how to collect data using web-based methods; (iii) how to analyze huge datasets through computational methods; (iv) basic coding skills in R and/or Python; and (v) how to present research output to a wider audience. 

Contact

rebecca.kittel@fu-berlin.de

Link to the course catalog

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