James Cook

Welcome! My name's James Cook, I'm a professor of sociology retired from the University of Maine at Augusta, and currently Chair of the Board of Midcoast Community Chorus and facilitator of a 4-year activist variety show called The Audacity. This Youtube channel is home to instructional videos in sociology, guides for measuring social structure, social movement organizing strategies, how-to walkthroughs for data gathering, data analysis, research methods, and data visualization methods.

Why Protest? Episode 3: Because cowardly politicians bend to strength
Why Protest? Episode 3: Because cowardly politicians bend to strength
Why Protest? Reason #1: Kayfabe not Debate Club and Games vs. Lives
Why Protest? Reason #1: Kayfabe not Debate Club and Games vs. Lives
Non-monogamy in Online Social Media Platforms
Non-monogamy in Online Social Media Platforms
The Brett Kavanaugh Nomination on Social Media
The Brett Kavanaugh Nomination on Social Media
Bisexuality in Social Media Context: Presentation to the UMA Research Colloquium, 11/14/2024
Bisexuality in Social Media Context: Presentation to the UMA Research Colloquium, 11/14/2024
Why a Community Chorus Matters: Connection, Collective Effervescence, and Contact to Reduce Division
Why a Community Chorus Matters: Connection, Collective Effervescence, and Contact to Reduce Division
Social Networks, Social Capital, and Social Outcomes
Social Networks, Social Capital, and Social Outcomes
Why Research Methods? An Answer Drawing from Umwelt, Vorhandenheit, and Zuhandenheit
Why Research Methods? An Answer Drawing from Umwelt, Vorhandenheit, and Zuhandenheit
What does Public Higher Education as a Public Investment for the Public Good look like?
What does Public Higher Education as a Public Investment for the Public Good look like?
Deaths, Counts, and Cultural Significance of Maine's Mass Shooting
Deaths, Counts, and Cultural Significance of Maine's Mass Shooting
Education as a Public Good
Education as a Public Good
Introduction to Sociology Question Show 3
Introduction to Sociology Question Show 3
Introduction to Sociology Question Show 2
Introduction to Sociology Question Show 2
Research Makes Sociology Distinctive
Research Makes Sociology Distinctive
Introduction To Sociology Question and Answer Show 1
Introduction To Sociology Question and Answer Show 1
My Course Plan for an Introduction to Sociology
My Course Plan for an Introduction to Sociology
Basic, Elementary, Flexible Social Media Sentiment Analysis In R
Basic, Elementary, Flexible Social Media Sentiment Analysis In R
Extracting Reddit Data With R and the package RedditExtractoR (2023 Update)
Extracting Reddit Data With R and the package RedditExtractoR (2023 Update)
Crafting Cultural Networks From Text with R and igraph
Crafting Cultural Networks From Text with R and igraph
Collecting and Analyzing YouTube Video Data with R and VosonSML
Collecting and Analyzing YouTube Video Data with R and VosonSML
Getting a YouTube API Key: How Easy? This Easy.
Getting a YouTube API Key: How Easy? This Easy.
Reading Social Media into Data: Manually, through JSON, and through R
Reading Social Media into Data: Manually, through JSON, and through R
Identifying and Structuring Individuals, Attributes, Relations, and Affiliations in a Text
Identifying and Structuring Individuals, Attributes, Relations, and Affiliations in a Text
Easy as Pie: Installing R and RStudio from a Windows computer and saying
Easy as Pie: Installing R and RStudio from a Windows computer and saying "Hello" Three Ways
Thinking about Social Media Affordances through the Analogy of a Room
Thinking about Social Media Affordances through the Analogy of a Room
Income Inequality Data for Anytown USA through data.census.gov
Income Inequality Data for Anytown USA through data.census.gov
Visualizing Gender as a Cultural Structure
Visualizing Gender as a Cultural Structure
Walkthrough: Finding the Racial Composition of an American town
Walkthrough: Finding the Racial Composition of an American town
What does your professor want from you?
What does your professor want from you?
SSC 334: Facing Challenges & Finding Community Solutions at the University of Maine at Augusta
SSC 334: Facing Challenges & Finding Community Solutions at the University of Maine at Augusta