17. Hashtag Network Analysis and Interwoven Research Ethics with Ryan Gallagher and Brooke Foucault Welles

Our guests in this episode are Ryan Gallagher, a PhD Candidate in Network Science at Northeastern University, and Brooke Foucault Welles, an Associate Professor in Communication Studies and the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University. We discuss their 2019 CSCW paper, "Reclaiming Stigmatized Narratives: The Networked Disclosure Landscape of #MeToo" with co-authors Elizabeth Stowell and Andrea G. Parker. We talk about their substantive motivation for focusing on #metoo, the networked counter public, and hashtags' influence on social change. Ryan and Brooke also walk us through the advantages of pairing qualitative and quantitative work, weaving ethics throughout every stage of the research process, dealing with missing Tweets, and taking seriously both the "computational" and "social science" sides of CSS.

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Large-scale data has become a major component of research about human behavior and society. But how are interdisciplinary collaborations that use large-scale social data formed and maintained? What obstacles are encountered on the journey from idea conception to publication? In this podcast, we investigate these questions by probing the “research diaries” of scholars in computational social science and adjacent fields. We unmask the research process with the hope of normalizing the challenges of and increasing accessibility in academia. Music: Jon Gillick.