Making Sense of a Networked World since 2010

The Social Media Lab is an interdisciplinary research laboratory at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University in Canada. The lab studies how social media is changing the ways in which people and organizations communicate, disseminate information, conduct business

and form communities, and how these changes impact the social, economic and political structures of modern society. The broad aim of the lab’s various research initiatives is to advance the public’s understanding of the benefits and pitfalls of social media adoption.

Our Mission

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The Influence of Influencers in Canada: A Census-balanced Survey About Social...

65% of Canadian adults in our survey (n=1500) reported following social media influencers on at least one social media platform

Survey finds Canadians are spending less time on social media but...

Download the Report A Census-balanced Survey About Social...

Are Canadians immune to Russian propaganda? New research says you’ve likely...

New research shows that over half of Canadians have encountered pro-Kremlin propaganda online and that Canadians who hold right-leaning views are...
Social Media Research Toolkit
A list of 50+ social media research tools curated by researchers at the Social Media Lab. Only tools that have been used in peer-reviewed academic studies are included.
Communalytic is a research platform for studying online communities and online discourse. It can collect and analyze public data from various social media platforms including Reddit, Twitter, and CrowdTangle (Facebook/Instagram). It uses advanced AI, text, social network analysis techniques to automatically analyze posts’ content, pinpoint toxicity, detect bots, assesses sentiments, and discover comms networks.
Netlytic
Netlytic is a text and social networks analyzer that can automatically summarizes public conversations and discover communication networks from social media posts. It uses various APIs to collect public posts from Twitter, YouTube and RSS feed. It can also support the analysis of your own datasets via .text/.csv. files.

Recent Posts

Bringing Transparency to Targeted Political Advertising: PoliDashboard Goes Open Source

We are excited to announce that PoliDashboard is now available as an open-source piece of software on Github. Anyone can now review...

We are Hiring Two Postdoctoral Research Fellows in Computational Social Science at the Social...

Research Unit: Social Media Lab, Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University (Toronto, Canada)

📢New Study Finds COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation Persists on Facebook & YouTube💉

In our newly puvblished study "From Facebook to YouTube: The Potential Exposure to COVID-19 Anti-Vaccine Videos on Social Media"...
The GCMS was organized by the German Consulate General in Toronto in cooperation with Massey College and the University of Toronto, and provided a platform for media professionals and researchers from Germany and Canada to come together and discuss these critical issues.

Navigating the War of Words: Insights from the German Canadian Media Symposium’s War Propaganda...

The German Canadian Media Symposium (GCMS) was recently held in Toronto with the theme "How Can Journalism Counter...

Social Media Lab Launches The 2023 Canadian #AI Misinformation Hackathon

The Social Media Lab is pleased to launch the 2023 Canadian #AI...
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