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.

Recent Posts

DeepfakesTracker.org Launches to Combat Deepfake Disinformation

DeepfakesTracker.org, a portal designed to track and raise awareness about the prevalence of synthetic media. This comprehensive resource offers a real-time dashboard of fact-checked deepfakes, tools for detecting deepfakes, an interactive deepfake explorer, and educational materials.

Introducing the New Topic Analyzer Module in @Communalytic

We are thrilled to announce the release of the new 3D Topic Analyzer Module in Communalytic, a computational social...

[New Paper Alert] To Share or Not to Share: Randomized Controlled Study of Misinformation...

In recent years, content moderation on social media has become a flashpoint in...

[New Paper Alert] Digital battleground: An examination of anti-refugee discourse on Twitter against Ukrainians...

Photo by Kevin Bückert on Unsplash Photo by Kevin Bückert on Unsplash Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine...

[New Paper] The Lure of Decentralized Social Media: Extending the UTAUT Model For Understanding...

Traditional social media platforms face controversies, leading users to decentralized alternatives like Steemit and Hive, which offer better privacy and financial incentives. A study extended the UTAUT model to understand why users adopt blockchain-based social media (BSM), finding that financial rewards, community sense, and content moderation play significant roles.

“I Have Read and Agreed to the Terms…” A New Look...

It’s often said that one of the biggest lies on the web is "I have read and agree to the Terms".

[New Paper Alert] Falling for Russian Propaganda: Understanding the Factors that...

Ukraine and the West have long been a target of the Kremlin's disinformation campaigns. Since the annexation...

The State of Anti-Social Behaviour on Social Media – 31% of...

A Census-balanced Survey (n=1500) About Anti-Social Behaviour on Social Media
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.
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