No próximo dia 15 de Outubro, Manuel Escudero Garrido (University of Salamanca) será o orador convidado do Seminário do Grupo de Investigação SPARC, com o tema Extracting YouTube Data for Social Research: A Practical Introduction. Este evento terá lugar na sala 1 do ICS-ULisboa e online.

Short abstract: This practical session will introduce methods and techniques for extracting data from YouTube using the YouTube Data API v3 and Python in Google Colab. Participants will learn how to identify a YouTube channel, retrieve videos published within a specified period, and collect their comments and associated user identifiers. The session will also explain how to export the resulting data for subsequent analysis and will briefly address relevant technical and ethical considerations. 

Short biography: Manuel Escudero Garrido is a predoctoral researcher in Sociological Analysis at the University of Salamanca. His research examines hate speech, political polarization, and audience communities surrounding political influencers on YouTube in Spain. He is currently undertaking a research stay with the SPARC research group at ICS-ULisboa, where he intends to replicate his study of Portuguese political influencers under the supervision of Professor Susana Salgado..