Data and Society: Exploring Disinformation through Textual Analysis (SOCI 280)

Published

5 September 2025

This section contains material to support UBC’s Data and Society (SOCI 280). Below, you can find:

A link to the lesson plan for the module, outlining suggested activities and time-frames.
A link to the notebook for the module, which contains the content, code, and activities.

Modules

Introduction to Sentiment Analysis: Identifying and Mapping Disinformation Campaigns using NLP

An introduction to BERT-based NLP using online examples of disinformation and exploration of how embeddings and classification models can be used to analyze and detect…

Lesson Plan: Introduction to Sentiment Analysis

Duration: 110 minutes
Course: SOCI 280