| Week 1 (Social Network Analysis) |
| Introduction to the course |
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| Social Network Analysis 101 |
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| Social Media Implications in Real Life |
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| Network Metrics |
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| Research Projects |
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| Week 2 (Data Collection) |
| Data Collection |
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| Tutorial: Twitter API |
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| Tutorial: Twitter Search - Getting Historical Tweets |
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| Tutorial: Twitter Stream - Getting Live Tweets |
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| Tutorial: Twitter Other Endpoint |
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| Tutorial: Reddit Data Collection |
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| Week 3 (NLP for Social Text) |
| Social Media Text |
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| Social Media Text to Insights |
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| Tutorial: Reading Text, String Manipulation Methods |
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| Tutorial: Text Processing Libraries: NLTK, Spacy |
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| Tutorial: Feature Extraction and Tasks |
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| Week 4 (Fake News) |
| Introduction to Fake News |
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| Types of Fake News |
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| Concepts related to Fake News |
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| How to spot Fake News |
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| Week 5 (Fake News) |
| Research Methods- Introduction |
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| Content based Fake News Detection |
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| Misinformation on WhatsApp and Fake News Datasets |
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| Practical Solutions to Combat Fake News |
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| Week 6 |
| Online Social Media and Policing |
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| Privacy in OSM |
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| Identity Resolution |
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| Week 7 |
| Nudges in Social Media |
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| Cybercrime |
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| Hatespeech |
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| Week 8 |
| Privacy on Social Media |
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| Information disclosure |
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| Personally identifiable information |
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| Week 9 |
| Counducting studies on privacy and social media |
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| Privacy laws |
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| Protecting privacy on social media - Anonymization |
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| Week 10 |
| Ethics in social media research: Studies of concern |
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| Ethics in social media research: Solutions |
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| Bias in social media research |
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| Week 11 |
| Online Discussions on Divisive Topics - Liniguistic Characterisation |
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| Effect of Popularity Shocks and Driving the last mile papers |
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| Graph centrality examples |
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| Week 12 |
| Paper Discussion: Anticipated versus Actual Effects of Platform Design Change: A Case Study of Twitter's Character Limit & Tampering with the Twitter API |
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| What all has been covered in the course |
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