Editing Designing Internet Research (Spring 2025) (section)

=== Tuesday April 22: Visual Analysis  ===

;Required Readings:

* Faulkner, Simon, Farida Vis, and Francesco D’Orazio. 2018. “Analysing Social Media Images.” In ''The SAGE Handbook of Social Media'', edited by Jean Burgess, Alice Marwick, and Thomas Poell, 160–78. London, UK: SAGE. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781473984066. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.4135/9781473984066}}
* Peng, Yilang, and Yingdan Lu. 2023. “Computational Visual Analysis in Political Communication.” In ''Research Handbook on Visual Politics'', 42–54. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781800376939/book-part-9781800376939-10.xml. {{avail-free|1=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=4577025}}
* '''[Example]''' Lu, Yingdan, and Jennifer Pan. 2022. “The Pervasive Presence of Chinese Government Content on Douyin Trending Videos.” ''Computational Communication Research'' 4 (1). https://doi.org/10.5117/CCR2022.2.002.LU. {{avail-free|https://doi.org/10.5117/CCR2022.2.002.LU}}
* Hochman, Nadav, and Raz Schwartz. 2012. “Visualizing Instagram: Tracing Cultural Visual Rhythms.” In ''Sixth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media''. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/780d/c7ff86eb36731d5faa043ac635cbae6bbe45.pdf. {{avail-free|https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/780d/c7ff86eb36731d5faa043ac635cbae6bbe45.pdf}}

;Optional Readings:

* Torralba, Antonio. 2009. “Understanding Visual Scenes.” Tutorial presented at ''NIPS'', Vancouver, BC, Canada. http://videolectures.net/nips09_torralba_uvs/. {{avail-uw|http://videolectures.net/nips09_torralba_uvs/}}
: Note: This is a two-part (each part is one hour) lecture and tutorial by an expert in computer vision. I strongly recommend watching Part I. I think this gives you a good sense of the nature of the kinds of challenges that were (and still are) facing the field of computer vision and anybody trying to have their computer look at images.
* Hochman, Nadav, and Lev Manovich. 2013. “Zooming into an Instagram City: Reading the Local through Social Media.” ''First Monday'' 18 (7). https://firstmonday.org/article/view/4711/3698. {{avail-free|https://firstmonday.org/article/view/4711/3698}}

These two papers were started as a course project for a previous version of this course:

* Casas, Andreu, and Nora Webb Williams. 2019. “Images That Matter: Online Protests and the Mobilizing Role of Pictures.” ''Political Research Quarterly'' 72 (2): 360–75. https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912918786805. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912918786805}}
* Casas, Andreu, and Nora Webb Williams. 2017. “Computer Vision for Political Science Research: A Study of Online Protest Images.” In. College Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University. http://andreucasas.com/casas_webb_williams_NewFaces2017_images_as_data.pdf. {{avail-free|http://andreucasas.com/casas_webb_williams_NewFaces2017_images_as_data.pdf}}