Civic Hacknight #510: Conducting Social Media Research for Social Good - with Limited Tools
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Topic:
Drawing on 4+ years of digital democracy research at the Samara Centre for Democracy, Alex will convene a discussion sharing learnings, best practices, and insight into the state of social media listening research in a Canadian context through sharing insights from the VERIFIED project and the 2025 Canadian federal election.
Speaker:
Alex MacIsaac
Alex is the Senior Research Coordinator at the Samara Centre for Democracy. His work focuses on technology's influence on Canadian democracy and civic engagement, digital platform governance and prosocial design, and mitigating digital information threats. He currently is the project coordinator for VERIFIED and previously led the SAMbot project from 2022-2025.
Agenda:
7:00-7:20 Welcome and Introductions
7:20-7:50 Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:50-9:00 Breakout groups
Code of Conduct:
Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack:
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Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data.
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Don't let broken lines of code, busted API calls, and crashes ruin your app. Join the 4M developers and 90K organizations who consider Sentry “not bad” when it comes to application monitoring. Use code “guild” for 3 free months of the team plan.
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Civic Hacknight #510: Conducting Social Media Research for Social Good - with Limited Tools
Topic:
Drawing on 4+ years of digital democracy research at the Samara Centre for Democracy, Alex will convene a discussion sharing learnings, best practices, and insight into the state of social media listening research in a Canadian context through sharing insights from the VERIFIED project and the 2025 Canadian federal election.
Speaker:
Alex MacIsaac
Alex is the Senior Research Coordinator at the Samara Centre for Democracy. His work focuses on technology's influence on Canadian democracy and civic engagement, digital platform governance and prosocial design, and mitigating digital information threats. He currently is the project coordinator for VERIFIED and previously led the SAMbot project from 2022-2025.
Agenda:
7:00-7:20 Welcome and Introductions
7:20-7:50 Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:50-9:00 Breakout groups
Code of Conduct:
Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack:
https://link.civictech.ca/chat
About Us:
Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data.
Come and be part of it!
For more info:
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