Endalkachew Chala
@endalk.bsky.social
A clear, thoughtful overview of the post-API landscape for social media research—covering historical access, current constraints, and emerging methodological adaptations. Especially useful for scholars rethinking data strategies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The Post-API Age of Social Media Data Access: Past, Present, and Future - Deen Freelon, Cristina Monzer, Gayoung Jeon, Cameron Moy, Natasha Williams, 2024
Social media data have become a mainstay of social science research since the first application programming interfaces (APIs) debuted in the mid-2000s. Over tim...
journals.sagepub.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:41 AM
A clear, thoughtful overview of the post-API landscape for social media research—covering historical access, current constraints, and emerging methodological adaptations. Especially useful for scholars rethinking data strategies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#SundayReads 26.10.25
end of October already 👀
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October 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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How can our world stay informed & connected when social media is now fragmented, locked in chatrooms, & controlled by mercurial billionaires?
One answer is journalism, which is why I'm riding the equivalent of Mount Everest to fundraise for @globalvoices.org
natematias.medium.com/seeking-huma...
One answer is journalism, which is why I'm riding the equivalent of Mount Everest to fundraise for @globalvoices.org
natematias.medium.com/seeking-huma...
Seeking Human Understanding Across a Fragmented Internet
How can our world stay informed & connected when social media has become fragmented, locked in chatrooms, and controlled by billionaires?
natematias.medium.com
July 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
How can our world stay informed & connected when social media is now fragmented, locked in chatrooms, & controlled by mercurial billionaires?
One answer is journalism, which is why I'm riding the equivalent of Mount Everest to fundraise for @globalvoices.org
natematias.medium.com/seeking-huma...
One answer is journalism, which is why I'm riding the equivalent of Mount Everest to fundraise for @globalvoices.org
natematias.medium.com/seeking-huma...
Reposted by Endalkachew Chala
🐈⬛ 4CAT 1.50 is here! 🐈⬛
This release brings under-the-hood improvements, a faster web interface, new processors, better LLM analyses, improved annotations, and lots of bugfixes.
🔗 Full changelog: github.com/digitalmetho...
🔗 How to upgrade: github.com/digitalmetho...
This release brings under-the-hood improvements, a faster web interface, new processors, better LLM analyses, improved annotations, and lots of bugfixes.
🔗 Full changelog: github.com/digitalmetho...
🔗 How to upgrade: github.com/digitalmetho...
Releases · digitalmethodsinitiative/4cat
The 4CAT Capture and Analysis Toolkit provides modular data capture & analysis for a variety of social media platforms. - digitalmethodsinitiative/4cat
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July 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
🐈⬛ 4CAT 1.50 is here! 🐈⬛
This release brings under-the-hood improvements, a faster web interface, new processors, better LLM analyses, improved annotations, and lots of bugfixes.
🔗 Full changelog: github.com/digitalmetho...
🔗 How to upgrade: github.com/digitalmetho...
This release brings under-the-hood improvements, a faster web interface, new processors, better LLM analyses, improved annotations, and lots of bugfixes.
🔗 Full changelog: github.com/digitalmetho...
🔗 How to upgrade: github.com/digitalmetho...
Reposted by Endalkachew Chala
I was looking up ratings for late night TV over time, and it's kind of amazing how fragmented media is. Like Colbert was/is pretty popular and pulled around 2M people. Johnny Carson was more like 10-15M, and that's with a lower population. He was hitting close to 1/3 of households. Crazy.
July 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM
I was looking up ratings for late night TV over time, and it's kind of amazing how fragmented media is. Like Colbert was/is pretty popular and pulled around 2M people. Johnny Carson was more like 10-15M, and that's with a lower population. He was hitting close to 1/3 of households. Crazy.