SOCI 5260/6500: Text Analysis Summer II 2014 M,T,W,Th, 12-1:50pm, Wooten Hal 116, July 7-August 8, 2014 Professor Gabe Ignatow gignatow@gmail.com Although this course has a room assigned, it is online-only. We will communicate by email, supplemented by several in-person meetings. Course description: Social media sites generate massive volumes of natural language data that are available for social science research, and social scientists have developed a number of new technologies for analyzing this data. Researchers are scaling up traditional research techniques to take advantage of new sources of textual data, as well as developing new methods along with new theoretical and metatheoretical frameworks and approaches to research ethics. This course provides a practical guide to contemporary text mining and analysis for the social sciences, covering both qualitative and quantitative text analytic research methods. Our focus in this course is mainly on sociological