RedditMap.Social
RedditMap.Social is a network map of Reddit based on Clustering. The users are clustered by topic; the project uses colors to represent everyday user content. Users can access it through a browser which makes it more usable. The female-to-male ratio on RedditMap.Social is well-balanced, indicating strong user engagement from both genders.
- The project was conducted by Jasmine Mangat, Virginia Partridge, and Rebecca Curran from UMass Amherst
- The project started in early 2023 and was officially released in May 2023
- The tool was developed at UMass Amherst, under the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure and Media Cloud
- The initial goal of RedditMap.social was to create a dynamic, interactive map of Reddit communities to help users and researchers explore how different subreddits are interconnected
Capturing News Hyperlinking Practices at Scale
Capturing News Hyperlinking Practices at Scale is a global computational study that analyzes hyperlinking practices within news production. The research team looked at hyperlinking patterns in many different media markets worldwide using data and resources provided by Media Cloud.
- The project was conducted by Rahul Bhargava, Fernando Bermejo, Kathleen Chesnutt, Danica Jefferies, and Emily Boardman Ndulue.
- The project was published online on October 27, 2022.
- The study covered news sources from seven countries across five continents, offering a global perspective on hyperlinking practices.
- The initial goal of A Multinational Computational Analysis of Hyperlinking in News was to fill the gap in recent research on the use of hyperlinks in digital news