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Doing Digital Platform Research with the Australian Internet Observatory A free Australian Internet Observatory Webinar exploring how methods such as data donation, interviews, surveys and other approaches may be combined for digital

How do we research digital platforms without access to their data?
👉 Data donations may be the answer
🎓 Learn how in our upcoming webinar
Register: events.humanitix.com/digital-plat...
@ardc.edu.au @admscentre.org.au

#DigitalPlatforms #DataDonation #InternetResearch #Misinformation #DigitalSociety

GESIS Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science 2026 🗓️ 31 Aug – 29 Sep 2026 📍 Mannheim or online

📣 We're excited that the program for this year’s #GESISfallseminar in Computational Social Science is out & registration is now open!

🗓️ 31 Aug – 29 Sep 2026
📍 GESIS Mannheim or online

More info at gesis.org/fallseminar. Full program & registration at t1p.de/FallSeminar2026-Program.

@gesis.org

*job* work with my great colleagues at @gesis.org CSS group led by @clauwa.bsky.social and @sebstier.bsky.social

Great academic position opened at @mpifg.bsky.social

Communalytic Launches Major Platform Upgrade to Advance Social Media Research - Communalytic - A no-code computational social science research tool for studying online communities and public discourse... FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 15, 2026 — Today, we’re excited to launch a new version of Communalytic, a leading platform for analyzing online communities and public discourse on social media. Designed ...

Researchers, are you or your PhD student conducting research on online discourse, or exploring how digital conversations shape public opinion and behaviour? Our new @communalytic.org tool may help with your next research project. communalytic.org/2026/03/15/c... #academicsky #phdsky #comsky #polisky

The nation’s largest housing and real estate dataset, the Zillow Transaction and Assessment Database (ZTRAX), is now available to researchers via ICPSR at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. More: https://myumi.ch/D82nG

Twitter at Twenty: Commemoration and Commiseration | Snurblog — Axel Bruns Yesterday, 21 March 2026, marked the twentieth anniversary of the first tweet: 'just setting up m

2️⃣0️⃣ To mark the twentieth anniversary of the first official tweet yesterday, I've collected some of our publications commemorating and commiserating that occasion over on the blog. Farewell, #Twitter; may your end be swift and painless – and soon. ☠️

Twitter is 20.

A reminder that @nancybaym.bsky.social and I wrote a biography of young Twitter 2006-2016, its early joys, competing cultures & user innovation, and how things had gone awry well before Musk. It may contain more lessons for Bluesky than X at this point.

newbooksnetwork.com/twitter

20 Years of Twitter Roundtable (#41) Read Them Sideways · Episode

And back home at the @qutdmrc.bsky.social, we recorded a podcast in our #ReadThemSideways series where Jean Burgess, Kateryna Kasianenko, and Luke Pearson from IndigenousX reflect on the Twitter that was and the Xitter it became.

The result of my early work with
@snurb.info and @jeanburgess.bsky.social, Merja Mahrt and
@cbpuschmann.bsky.social might be something to read for Twitter’s anniversary + when thinking about the future of online platforms: our edited collection "Twitter and Society" www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle...

@snurb.info also was so kind to give an interview for the @gesis.org blog to reflect on 20 years of Twitter bsky.app/profile/gesi...

I am forever thankful to @snurb.info and @jeanburgess.bsky.social, two exceptional researchers I had the pleasure to work with back then and and still admire their excellent work and kindness. They just shared their views on Twitter's anniversary in a podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/5XNG...

Our work in the early years of Twitter research has become a foundation for my career. I remember how we hosted our first “Düsseldorf Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twitter Analysis (#diata)" in 2011 at @hhu.de with many excellent researchers (shoutout to @cbpuschmann.bsky.social)

I joined Twitter in 09 – and retired my account in Nov 24, when the feeling that this was no longer a place I support outgrew my wish to keep the memory of previous times alive. In the years prior to the takeover, Twitter played a major role in my professional life (and replacing it is still hard).

Tomorrow, March 21, Twitter would have turned 20 years. With the rebranding to X, I am not sure how much there is to celebrate. But I use the occasion to reflect on my own work about Twitter and the role researchers like my colleagues at @gesis.org play for understanding platforms role in society

I really hope we can put together another addtion of the Social Media Access Days in the future. Again huge thanks to the @dnb-aktuelles.bsky.social as the local host for this inspiring event! #smad2026

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Together with Paulo Almeida and @joanagsa.bsky.social (from Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics, Portugal), my colleagues @olivier-rqt.bsky.social and @yapete.bsky.social had prepared a tutorial on how to submit a DSA request based on Article 40.4

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Susmita Gangopadhyay presented the "TeleScope" dataset - based on a collection of Telegram channels at @gesis.org.
Blog post by @snurb.info is here: snurb.info/index.php/no... #smad2026

Robert Jäschke from @ibi-hu.bsky.social presented work with @trovdimi.bsky.social from GESIS - they created an n-gram corpus based on tweets. bsky.app/profile/ibi-... #smad2026

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@janschwalbach.bsky.social and Oliver Watteler presented their joined work with other GESIS colleagues on Twitter Terms of Services over time. (full paper on this is published here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/..., blog summary by @snurb.info here snurb.info/index.php/no...) #smad2026

photo of a man holding a microphone and standing at a speaker's desk which has the sign "Deutsche Nationalbibliothek" on it.

@pascalsiegers.bsky.social presented work from the @dprex.bsky.social context and AVERA snurb.info/node/3538

There was also a great set of contributions from different colleagues at @gesis.org: The GESIS Methods Hub team kicked off the conferene with a datasprint / hackathon on Tuesday: bsky.app/profile/jbgr...

Assessing the Operation of EU Social Media Data Access Mechanisms via the DSA40 Collaboratory | Snurblog — Axel Bruns The post-lunch session at the

And @lkseiling.bsky.social and Sophia Graf presenting lots of super useful work by the @dsa40collaboratory.bsky.social snurb.info/index.php/no... #smad2026 #digitalservicesact

The Painful Process of Gaining Cross-Platform Social Media Data Access via EU Digital Services Act Mechanisms | Snurblog — Axel Bruns Up next at the

more #digitalservicesact insights from Ramin Soleymani conducting cross-platform studies with DSA 40.12 data access approaches from "big 5" (or six) plattforms snurb.info/index.php/no... #smad2026

Exposing Very Large Online Marketplace Platforms’ Deliberate Frustration of Data Access Requests under DSA Article 40.12 | Snurblog — Axel Bruns And the lucky last speaker in the final session at the

and some great insights from several people around getting access to online platform data under the DSA (mainly 40.12 for public data), e.g. @giadam.bsky.social presenting their work on accessing data from large online shopping portals snurb.info/index.php/no... #smad2026 #digitalservicesact

What to Do with an Author’s Data Donation of His Twitter History? | Snurblog — Axel Bruns The next speakers in this session at the

I really enjoyed all presentations at the event. to give just some examples, there was a really entertaining presentation by Gabriel Viehhauser and Carl Friedrich Haak about challenges in archiving the personal tweets from an author as part of his oevre snurb.info/node/3543 #smad2026

For me the event was great to re-connect with people I knew and to learn about new and hightly relevant projects and ongoing work, for example around metadata and the #digitalservicesact #DSA #smad2026

Revisiting the APIcalypse and Its Aftermath | Snurblog — Axel Bruns Day Two at the

Also huge thanks to @snurb.info, who not only gave a fascinating keynote based on years of experiene in working with data from different social media platforms (see: snurb.info/node/3545), but also covered all conference talks with his incredible live-blogging skills! Check them out on his blog!

Social Media Access Days Social Media Access Days Social media data between research and infrastructure – sustainable archiving, cataloguing and access

Back home after "Social Media Access Days - Social media data between research and infrastructure – sustainable archiving, indexing and access" www.dnb.de/EN/Professio.... It was a pleasure to co-host, thanks to my co-organizers and the professional local team at @dnb-aktuelles.bsky.social #smad2026