Semester Assignments

• Social Media Engagement (Twitter) Assignment
• Semester-Long Hashtag Study
  • Hashtag Study Proposal
  • Benchmark 1: Hashtag Study Page Setup
  • Benchmark 2: Initial Archiving and Community Impressions
  • Benchmark 3: Grounded Theory Analysis
• Network Visualizations
• Final Data Infographics

Important Dates

• 9/8: come to class with 5 hashtags you might study
• 9/15: research proposal due by class-time
• 9/20 – 10/13: create extensive catalog of the texts and spaces associated with the hashtag
• 9/27: Benchmark 1 due: research study web page initial set-up complete
• between 9/22 and 10/13: Official Study archive of Tweets completed
• 10/6: Benchmark 2 due: Initial Archiving and Community Impressions
• week of 10/25: conferences to discuss your study and coding
• 11/8: Benchmark 3 due: Grounded Theory Analysis
• week of 11/21: conferences to discuss network visualizations and infographics
• 12/1: Network visualizations and analysis due
• 12/8: data infographics rough draft due
• 12/12: final data infographics and reflections due