It is difficult because of limitations Facebook places on its API, namely that you can only retrieve data from the friends of the person logged in.  There is a plugin for NodeXL <http://nodexl.codeplex.com/>  that allows you to do that, and I suppose you could have some sort of procedure where participants come to a lab and log in to have their data downloaded.  I can’t remember how much of the text content that app retrieves, though.  It’s mainly for network analysis.

 

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Can anybody shed light and provide any source(s) on Text mining Facebook data? Emphasis: Facebook 

 

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This is fabulous. Thank you, thank you. I can't thank you enough!! alladi Alladi Venkatesh Professor The Paul Merage School of Business University of California Irvine CA 92697 avenkate@uci.edu tel: 949 824 6625 (office) 949 413 2887 (mobile) -----Original Message----- From: Philip N. Howard [mailto:pnhoward@uw.edu] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2015 8:27 AM To: Anatoliy Gruzd; Alladi Venkatesh Cc: citasa@list.citasa.org Subject: RE: [CITASA] Text mining Fcaebook data There are two exercises on mapping social networks with facebook data, including step by step NodeXL one, in the appendix of my book on Castells (prepub version attached). p. Dr. Philip N. Howard Professor, University of Washington Professor, Central European University GPG Key: 9CAAEABC www.philhoward.org @pnhoward **New Book** Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up. Yale University Press, 2015, www.paxtechnica.org -----Original Message----- From: CITASA [mailto:citasa-bounces@list.citasa.org] On Behalf Of Anatoliy Gruzd Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2015 3:38 PM To: Alladi Venkatesh Cc: citasa@list.citasa.org Subject: Re: [CITASA] Text mining Fcaebook data Hi Alladi, You can collect comments and first-level replies for public Facebook groups and pages using Netlytic: https://netlytic.org/home/ Here is a Youtube tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JptSa3nX950 Good luck with your research! Best, Anatoliy On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Steven Corman <steve.corman@asu.edu <mailto:steve.corman@asu.edu> > wrote: It is difficult because of limitations Facebook places on its API, namely that you can only retrieve data from the friends of the person logged in. There is a plugin for NodeXL <http://nodexl.codeplex.com/> that allows you to do that, and I suppose you could have some sort of procedure where participants come to a lab and log in to have their data downloaded. I can’t remember how much of the text content that app retrieves, though. It’s mainly for network analysis. Steve __________________________________________________________ Steven R. (Steve) Corman Professor, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication <http://humancommunication.clas.asu.edu/> Director, Center for Strategic Communication <http://csc.asu.edu/> Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict <https://csrc.asu.edu/> Faculty Affiliate, Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security <https://cemhs.asu.edu/> Faculty Affiliate, Center on the Future of War <https://futureofwar.asu.edu/> From: CITASA [mailto:citasa-bounces@list.citasa.org <mailto:citasa-bounces@list.citasa.org> ] On Behalf Of Alladi Venkatesh Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 1:47 PM To: citasa@list.citasa.org <mailto:citasa@list.citasa.org> Subject: [CITASA] Text mining Fcaebook data Can anybody shed light and provide any source(s) on Text mining Facebook data? Emphasis: Facebook Thank you. Alladi Venkatesh Professor The Paul Merage School of Business University of California Irvine CA 92697 avenkate@uci.edu <mailto:avenkate@uci.edu> tel: 949 824 6625 <tel:949%20824%206625> (office) 949 413 2887 <tel:949%20413%202887> (mobile) _______________________________________________ CITASA mailing list CITASA@list.citasa.org <mailto:CITASA@list.citasa.org> http://list.citasa.org/mailman/listinfo/citasa_list.citasa.org