Just a brief announcement—shortly before New Year’s I earned my Ph.D. I have also updated this site’s front page to indicate that I am now an assistant professor at the School of Communication at American …
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The MENA protests on Twitter: Some empirical data
If you’ve been following the online commentary about the ongoing protests in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), you know there’s been plenty of speculation about how digital communication technologies have aided, hindered, or …
Continue readingCausality, politics, and the net
Henry Farrell recently declared himself against studying the internet, and while that headline oversells his argument a bit, compelling turns of phrase are a large part of what gets good online conversations started. His basic …
Continue readingSorting through claims about the internet & revolutions, part 2
UPDATED WITH ADDENDUM 3/03/11 Welcome to Yet Another Blog Post About Politics, the MidEast, and The Internet, Part 2. I venture forth once more into this already oversaturated conversation for two reasons: one, I said …
Continue readingSorting through claims about the internet and revolutions, part 1
UPDATED WITH ADDENDUM 2/8/11 My last blog post argued that too many commentators on the recent events in Tunisia/Egypt/Yemen/etc. have become hamstrung by the “internet revolution” frame—advocates and opponents alike tend to orient their arguments …
Continue readingWe need a revolution in revolution-framing.
Political revolutions are complex things; this should go without saying. But many of the commentators on the recent events in Tunisia and Egypt seem to have ignored this fact in favor of social-media triumphalism, a …
Continue readingReCal journal article now available
I’m pleased to announce the publication of “ReCal: Intercoder Reliability Calculation as a Web Service,” a paper describing and verifying the output of ReCal. If you need to cite ReCal, please cite this paper. Here’s …
Continue readingInterval/ratio reliability calculator
I recently discovered an online calculator for Lin’s Concordance, a statistic which is often used to represent reliability between sets of subjectively-coded interval and ratio data. It computes Lin’s Concordance for two coders only and …
Continue readingFrom the mailbag, 12/14/09
Another question came in today, and it’s one I think the ReCal user community might be interested in. Sonya from Pennsylvania writes: Ok, I am stumped. How can I have a percent agreement of .97 …
Continue readingFrom The Mailbag, 12/09/09
I don’t get much correspondence about ReCal, but I do try to respond to the few queries I receive. Today, Dianne from Australia asked: Thank you so much for a great tool. But, I hope …
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