Dr. Suomela will lead a hands-on session focusing on tools and methodologies developed through his extensive work on web archives and social data.
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What participants will learn:
- Ethical Web Scraping: Using tools like WIScker (a tool for scraping Wikipedia histories) and best practices for scraping Reddit or gaming forums.
- The Researcher’s Well-being: Strategies for students dealing with "secondary trauma" when archiving hate speech or toxic content.
- Data Stewardship: How to handle data not as "objects," but as "relationships" that require ongoing consent.
- Mapping Conflict: A tutorial on data mapping and visualization that respects the privacy of vulnerable populations.
This event is sponsored by Digital Humanities.