News and Announcements

This page provides updates about the Social Media Archive (SOMAR), including recent announcements, media coverage, and publications. For questions about any of the items listed below, please contact us at somar-help@umich.edu.

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Papers and Publications

• Hemphill, L., Schöpke-Gonzalez, A., & Panda, A. (2022). Comparative sensitivity of social media data and their acceptable use in research. Scientific Data, 9(1), 643. doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01773-w
• Hemphill, L., Hedstrom, M. L., & Leonard, S. H. (2020). Saving social media data: Understanding data management practices among social media researchers and their implications for archives. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 3, 34. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24368

Announcements and News Articles

• ICPSR to facilitate researcher access to Meta’s API Products (ICPSR – November 21 2023)
• Data from U.S. 2020 Presidential Election Facebook and Instagram Study Now Available at ICPSR (ICPSR – July 27 2023)
• Democratizing Social Media Data for Research Impact (ICPSR – July 15 2022)
• University Of Michigan Partners With Meta To Build Social Media Data Archive (Chronicle Press – July 1 2022)
• ICPSR Awarded $50K in AWS Credits to support Social Media Archive (SOMAR) (ICPSR – March 23 2023)
• SOMAR Partners with TIND to Build New Archive for Social Media Data (ICPSR – March 9 2023)
• Twitter’s Latest Chaotic Move Will Kill the Site’s Best Bots, Account Owners Say (Vice – February 2 2023)
• ICPSR to host data on social media’s impact on US 2020 elections (ICPSR – January 10 2023)