Details:
- Thursday, January 23rd, 2025
- 12:30-2:00 PM CST
- FAC 334A
- Eventbrite
Summary: Social media has emerged as a critical part of the American public sphere. Our ability to understand this new space is constrained by actions powerful platform companies take that create obstacles to researchers who seek to study them. Unpermissioned research is the idea that researchers can practically and ethically study social media even when social media platforms would prefer not to be scrutinized. What can we learn when we study social media carefully, closely and adversarially?
