Social Media Platforms, APIs, and Data Collection: A Researcher's Perspective

This presentation offers an overview of social media APIs from a researcher's perspective, targeted at the cultural heritage sector. It discusses the history of losing access to public data on platforms like Facebook and X, asmall scientometric exploration of social media analysis data collection and methods, and the current state of social media APIs for data collection. The presentation also provides insights from the presenter's own research on political communication about migration on social media.