Nandhini Lakuduva and Jerry Sun Coding for CML’s Hurricane Harvey Project[/caption]
Social media has become an important part of our economic, political and social lives. The purpose of the Computational Media Lab is to decipher, interpret and analyze complex forms of engagement in emergent social media platforms that would be challenging to study using traditional research methods. Founded in March 2017, the lab launched projects that seek to understand discourse, engagement, and sociopolitical formations \in platforms including Twitter, Venmo, Facebook and Instagram. We’re using advanced sentiment analysis and topic modeling techniques that leverage the high performance cyberinfrastructure of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). CML is at the forefront of computational social media research by extending and developing a variety of cutting edge and traditional methods, and we’re creating innovative ways to combine qualitative and mixed methods to offer richer understandings of social communication in social media spaces. Please do get in touch with us via Twitter or email if you are interested in learning more about our work.
Dr. Murthy, Dr. Weijia Xu and CML researcher Martin Riedl explore the Texas Advanced Computing Center during a research visit.