A tool for tracking the propagation of words on Reddit

The data-driven study of cultural information diffusion in online (social) media is currently an active area research. availability data from the web thereby generates new opportunities to examine how words propagate through and communities, as well these patterns are intertwined with materiality culture social platforms. In support such efforts, this paper introduces tool for tracking consecutive occurrences across subreddits on Reddit between 2005 2017. By processing full Pushshift.io comment archive period (Baumgartner et al., 2020), we able track first 76 million words, allowing us visualize which subsequently adopt any those over time. We illustrate approach by addressing spread terms referring famous internet controversies, percolation alt-right terminology. making our instrument processed publically available, aim facilitate a range exploratory analyses computational science, digital humanities, related fields.