Dr Stefania Vicari‘s overarching research interest is in dynamics of civic engagement on digital platforms of communication. Her approach to online data is based on a variety of textual analysis techniques – with an increasing focus on text analytics – informed by social network and framing theories.
Daniel Kirkby will be using digitally native tools for collecting, cleaning and analysing social media data over a 12 month period, working alongside the digital methods team at the University of Sheffield.