Steven Lloyd Wilson is an assistant professor of politics at Brandeis University, project manager for the V-Dem Institute, and co-PI of the Digital Society Project. His research focuses on comparative democratization, cyber-security, and the effect of the Internet and social media on authoritarian regimes, particularly in the post-Soviet world.

1. Why social media matters to the social sciences; 2. Getting started with social media data; 3. Content analysis of social media data; 4. Geospatial analysis of social media data; 5. Network analysis of social media data; 6. The ethics of using social media data.