(if you are affiliated with a research team or project at RUC, you might be able to get access to our current subscription. One of the major issues with this platform, is that it does not provide student access, making it virtually unusable for educational purpose. One option is the Crowdtangle solution, which allows researchers and other non-commerical actors to gain access to an officially supported platform for collection and analysis of Facebook and Instagram data. Recently there have been progress in this regard, as Facebook has provided various new options for data collection for research purposes. In any case, collecting data from Facebook in through automated process have been difficult and uncertain over the last few years, leading the field into an uncertain future. Recently, however, Facebook started to shut down the public access to the API leading some researchers to call this the APIcalypse (Bruns, 2019), while other argued that it was rather the “end of the Wild West” for social media research (Puschmann, 2019). While the process of collecting data from the Facebook API was far from perfect (See Rieder et al., 2015), it was a rather efficient tool for big data collection. When researchers wish to collect data from social media platforms, they are often relying on the accessibility of the platform API, a system that allows a client to request for data and receive a structured response (See Lomborg and Bechman, 2014 for an explanation of how to utilize the API for research purposes). Picture from the public Facebook page of Facepager: Article Author: Sander Andreas Schwartz, associate professor, IKH.
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