08-week8.Rmd

# Week 8: Sampling text information

This week we'll be thinking about how best to sample text information, thinking about the different biases that might inhere in the data-generating process, as well as the representativeness and generalizability of any text corpus we construct. 

The reading by @barbera_understanding_2015 invesitgates the representativeness of Twitter data, and should give us pause when thinking about using digital trace data as a general barometer of public opinion. 

The reading by @michalopoulos_folklore_2021 takes an entirely different tack, but illustrates how we can think systematically about text information more broadly representative of societies in general. 

**Required reading**:

- @barbera_understanding_2015
- @michalopoulos_folklore_2021
- @krippendorff_content_2004 [chs. 5 and 6]

**Further reading**:

- @martins_rise_2020
- @baumard_cultural_2022

**Slides**:

- Week 8 [Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gAuaqirCG-Db1Q77tudp_Z4QIh0esvHBjRDiFEm8yWk/edit?usp=sharing)