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Digital Methods Initiative @digitalmethods.net · 27/06/2026
🏴‍☠️🆕 A new version of our social media capture tool Zeeschuimer! 💾 Highlight feature: export captured posts as CSV files directly from your browser - and open them with Excel, Numbers, or other spreadsheet apps. ✨ Update installed automatically, or get it from tools.digitalmethods.net/zeeschuimer!
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4CAT @4cat.nl · 29/04/2026
🐈‍⬛🐈New 1.54 4CAT update 🐈🐈‍⬛ github.com/digitalmetho... 📽️ Show downloaded media in the Explorer. This works for media uploads and social media datasets if images/videos have been downloaded through 4CAT. ✏️ New "Upload annotations" processor that lets you add new data fields to existing datasets. (1/2)
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Release v1.53 4CAT in bloom · digitalmethodsinitiative/4cat
This 4CAT updates mostly comprises updates and bug fixes for processors and data sources, as well as improvements to the Web UI (particularly the Explorer, which can now display downloaded dataset ...
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 23/04/2026
Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
enjoyed this "wayback studio" moment at @internetarchive.eu with @anthbrtn.com @iiil.li @idilg.bsky.social @hetsalwel.bsky.social @esthrr.bsky.social @digitalmethods.net @d-eepculture.bsky.social @publicdatalab.bsky.social @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social & many more! ✨
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Digital Methods Initiative @digitalmethods.net · 22/01/2026
🏴‍☠️ We just released a new version of Zeeschuimer, fixing various capture bugs. ⚠️ If you are already using Zeeschuimer it will unfortunately NOT be able to automatically update to this new version. Please re-install from tools.digitalmethods.net/zeeschuimer instead. Apologies for the inconvenience!
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4CAT @4cat.nl · 22/12/2025
A small 4CAT update just in time for the holidays - v1.52! 📊 Processors for regression analysis and dataset statistics 🧭 Test LLM prompts from our prompt library with the PromptCompass processor 🤖 Use Deepseek and Gemini 3 APIs with LLM processors 🐛 Many bug fixes! ➡️ github.com/digitalmetho...
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Release v1.52 Winter Wonderland · digitalmethodsinitiative/4cat
This 4CAT updates mostly comprises bug fixes for processors and data sources, as well as a couple of new processors for statistical analysis of datasets and an implementation of PromptCompass as a ...
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4CAT @4cat.nl · 04/11/2025
Just released: 4CAT 1.51 “The R is in the month” Highlights: 📊 Classification evaluation: subpar F1 scores, now in 4CAT 🤖 New LLM processor options #️⃣ Search by #hashtag on Telegram 🖼️ Image hasher: check for duplicate images! 🪰 A LOT of small bug fixes and improvements github.com/digitalmetho...
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Release v1.51 The R Is in the month · digitalmethodsinitiative/4cat
This updates adds several new processors, to help working with image datasets and LLM-based annotations; many bug fixes and small QoL updates to processors; various bug fixes and updates to mapping...
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4CAT @4cat.nl · 18/07/2025
🐈‍⬛ 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...
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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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Digital Methods Initiative @digitalmethods.net · 02/07/2025
Tommaso Venturini and Richard Rogers presenting their new book "Digital Methods: A Short Introduction" during the (warm!) DMI summer school 2025 #dmi25
Digital methods: a short introduction
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4CAT @4cat.nl · 04/06/2025
🔔New 4CAT version: 1.49🔔 🔎 Explorer revamp: Investigate datasets through an interface that mimics the original data source. Sort your data, make manual field notes, or add processor-made annotations. 🧰 Data source updates 🦜 Zeeschuimer import fixes Full changelog: github.com/digitalmetho...
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Digital Methods Initiative @digitalmethods.net · 15/05/2025
🗞️ A great deep dive in Dutch newspaper @nrc.nl, in which Elon Musk's tweets over the past few months are analysed after capturing them with our tool Zeeschuimer (tools.digitalmethods.net/zeeschuimer/)! www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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Dertienduizend tweets in 120 dagen. Wat zegt het extreme twittergedrag van Musk over Amerika’s schaduwpresident?
Musk op X: NRC analyseerde de vele duizenden tweets die de techmiljardair plaatste sinds hij begin dit jaar aantrad als informeel Trump-adviseur. Wat vertelt zijn eigen X-tijdlijn over Elon Musks poli...
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
new database of 200+ social media research tools (via Coalition for Independent Technology Research) airtable.com/apphRmVsFpqb... #digitalmethods #internetstudies #opensource @digitalmethods.net
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Airtable | Everyone's app platform
Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free.
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Digital Methods Initiative @digitalmethods.net · 19/03/2025
🔍Introducing Zoekplaatje: a Firefox extension that scrapes search engine data 🔍 Currently supported: Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, Baidu, Marginalia, Najdi & Seznam. It also collects ✨widget data✨ from Google and Bing, like 'People also ask' and AI summaries! 👉 github.com/digitalmetho...
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Sara Hill @sara-hill.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Testing my data collection work flow with tools from @digitalmethods.net and I am blown away. What incredible gifts to have put into the world - thank you! #AcademicSky #PhDlife
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Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou @boogheta.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
2 nouveaux logiciels de nos partenaires ajoutés au catalogue d'outils du @medialab-scpo.bsky.social : - Panoptic par le CERES pour travailler sur de gros corpus d'images - Zeeschuimer par @digitalmethods.net pour scraper des réseaux sociaux récalcitrants Essayez-les ! medialab.sciencespo.fr/outils/
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Digital Methods Initiative @digitalmethods.net · 20/02/2025
🦜 New Zeeschuimer release 🦜 📌📕 New modules for Pinterest and RedNote/Xiaohongshu! Capture data from these platforms directly with Zeeschuimer—and export them to the newest version of 4CAT (also out now) for further analysis. github.com/digitalmetho... Updates automatically if installed already!
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Release v1.12.1 Pinterest fixes · digitalmethodsinitiative/zeeschuimer
This public release of Zeeschuimer incorporates the following updates and fixes: Enable capture on Pinterest subdomains (e.g. https://nl.pinterest.com) Full Changelog: v1.12.0...v1.12.1
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4CAT @4cat.nl · 19/02/2025
🔔 We just released a new 4CAT version, v1.47! Some highlights: 📥 Data capture from Bluesky, Pinterest and RedNote/Xiaohongshu 🤖 Prompt-based coding and annotation of data via the OpenAI API 🛠️ New & updated data fields for datasets from TikTok, Instagram, & co Read more: github.com/digitalmetho...
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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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Liliana Bounegru @lboungr.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
🔍 How can creative coding techniques like soundscaping and video recomposition help us unpack political issues + influencer practices on TikTok? 🎵📹 📖 Insights from explorations w/ @publicdatalab.bsky.social around the 2024 Romanian elections at @digitalmethods.net winter school:
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The great Romanian election TikTok replay – Public Data Lab
In December 2024, the European Commission launched an investigation following “serious indications that foreign actors interfered in the Romanian presidential elections using TikTok.” The elections…
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Bernhard Rieder @riederb.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Postdoctoral Researcher in OSINT & Information Disorder at Amsterdam University werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
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Vacancy — Postdoctoral Researcher in OSINT & Information Disorder
Do you want to join the European Union-funded project Social Media for Democracy (SoMe4Dem) focusing on the role of social media in democracy? Then this position is for you!
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
🇧🇷 What is the current state of #digital methods for Internet research in #Brazil? Join @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social roundtable on 31 Jan to hear from @jannajoceliomena.bsky.social, Alan Angeluci, Elias Bitencourt, Giulia Tucci, Richard Rogers and Thais Lobo 🔽 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digit...
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Digital Methods in Brazil – Fostering Dialogue and Connection
This roundtable fosters dialogue about the current state of digital methods for Internet research in Brazil.
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
✨call for papers✨ @aoir.bsky.social symposium "From Platform Governance to Generative AI: Concepts, Methods, and Data for Studying Tech Governance" with @pgmt.bsky.social @zemki.bsky.social @ckatzenbach.bsky.social Daria Dergacheva @redeker.bsky.social: platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...
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AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2025 – Lab Platform Governance, Media and Technology (PGMT)
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ECHOlab @echodtu.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
This week part of the team ventured out to participate in the #dmi25 winter school with the title "Chatbots and LLMs for Internet Research?" Building on our #datavisualisation and #exhibitiondesign for grounding-ai.github.io, we hosted the project "Who's my host?" exploring personas across LLMs.
Poster submission for the data sprint project "who's my host"
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Alexis Perrier @alexisperrier.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Big day today In roughly 24h, we submit our poster for the sociology benchwork with LLMs workshop #DMI25  #Amsterdam #LLMs #Sociology
Room full of people working on laptops in a beautiful medieval room
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
#dmi starting 2025 with Digital methods winter school! Doing a project on Femcel culture on Pinterest with Idil Galip
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
"Chatbots and LLMs for Internet Research?" - opening of @digitalmethods.net #dmi25 at University of Amsterdam ✨🧵https://www.digitalmethods.net/
Richard Rogers opening Digital Methods Winter School 2025 - with image of "shrimp Jesus".
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Public Data Lab @publicdatalab.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The @digitalmethods.net Winter School in Amsterdam will take place on 6-10th January 2025 with the theme “Chatbots and LLMs for Internet Research?”. Apply by 9th December. 📝✨ publicdatalab.org/2024/11/29/d... #digitalmethods
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Chatbots and LLMs for Internet Research? Digital Methods Winter School and Data Sprint 2025 – Public Data Lab
The annual Digital Methods Winter School in Amsterdam will take place on 6-10th January 2025 with the theme “Chatbots and LLMs for Internet Research?”. The deadline for applications is 9 December 2024...
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Centre for Digital Culture @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
welcome to kingscat 🐱 a new @4cat.nl instance to support collaborative social media research at King's 🎊✨ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/gather-... created by @digitalmethods.net @oilab.bsky.social hosted by @kingsdh.bsky.social @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social #opensource #socialmedia
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'Gather, explore, collaborate' – new toolkit to enrich digital culture…
KingsCAT is a cross-faculty initiative coordinated by the Digital Future Institute’s Centre for Digital Culture and the Department of Digital Humanities in collaboration with e-Research and…
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Digital Methods Initiative @digitalmethods.net · 29/11/2024
🦜 New Zeeschuimer release: v1.11.1 Douyin maintenance 🦜 The Douyin module now properly collects data from Search, modal dialogs, and video pages. Zeeschuimer should update automatically. github.com/digitalmetho...
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Release v1.11.1 Douyin maintenance · digitalmethodsinitiative/zeeschuimer
This public release of Zeeschuimer incorporates the following updates and fixes: Update Douyin module to properly collect data from Search, modal dialogs, and video pages. Full Changelog: v1.11.1...
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Digital Methods Initiative @digitalmethods.net · 29/11/2024
This extensive website on computational social science by Michael Achmann-Denkler provides 4CAT and Zeeschuimer tutorials alongside other great tips & tricks. Check it out 👇 social-media-lab.net
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Notes on Computational Social Media Research – Social Media Lab
Notes on computational social media analysis
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Bernhard Rieder @riederb.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
the "Spotify artist network" tool is no longer working, since Spotify has restricted access to the "related artists" API endpoint (without warning, lots of unhappy devs); I am trying to get access again, but I'm not very optimistic
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Esther Weltevrede @esthrr.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
New platform, new paper! Talking about ideal first posts :) The platformization of the follower factory with my co-author Johan Lindquist: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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nessakeddo.bsky.social @nessakeddo.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Fascinating workshop with @4cat.nl walking us through their social media capture and analysis tool, talking through capabilities and possibilities! @kingsdh.bsky.social
Screenshot from the workshop titled “how does TikTok organise its data”, with the subheadings “for you page”, “user”, “hashtag”, “keyword search” and “sound”
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Digital Methods Initiative @digitalmethods.net · 15/11/2024
🔔 New version out for Zeeschuimer, our tool for capturing social media data from the browser! This brings it up to speed with Instagram's latest updates, fixing the capture of posts from Location and Tag pages. 💾 Get it here: github.com/digitalmetho... ⬆️ Already installed it? It will auto-update!
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GitHub - digitalmethodsinitiative/zeeschuimer: A browser extension to collect social media data with.
A browser extension to collect social media data with. - digitalmethodsinitiative/zeeschuimer
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