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5 years ago Hi - a great place to start using Media Cloud is our Explorer tool. The web interface lets you do analysis quickly without having to do any coding. If you want to build a custom collection of blogs to research, you can email us at support@mediacloud.org to get started with a template for adding sources to our platform.
This code repository is an API client written in the Python programming language for folks wanting lower-level programatic access. It sounds like you want to do research using our data so the best process is to add the sources to our platform and work on it like that. You can install and run your own copy of Media Cloud, but that takes a lot of programming knowledge (all that code is linked on our Open Source webpage).
Hello! I met Dr. Zuckerman at a conference in Italy last week where he talked about Media Cloud. He said that we could download it from Git Hub, but I think I may be in the wrong place for the download. This looks like it is for the developers of the platform and not for users, but when I searched "Media Cloud" I got hundreds of results. Also, I have used Git Hub for a class, but I am new to Python. University of Pittsburgh doesn't seem to have a class on Python (but I can take one at Carnegie Mellon next door). Would you recommend that I take a Python class to use Media Cloud or do you provide the code for basic functions that would get me started? I am a digital humanist, but I am only beginning that journey and have a lot of coding to learn. Any suggestions are welcome. I am hoping to try out Media Cloud for a paper I am currently writing and then once I learn how to use it, I would like to help by building a database of Manosphere blogs. Thank you all for reading and replying. I am very excited about this technology- keep up the great work! Kelly O'Donnell PhD Rhetoric and Communication University of Pittsburgh kmo70@pitt.edu