Andrew Lowe
Graduate Student, Communication
Education
B.A., Communication, University of Maryland, College Park
Research Expertise
Digital Cultures
Identity Narratives
Rhetoric
Andrew Lowe is a Ronald E. McNair Fellow and Ph.D. student in the Rhetoric and Political Culture track within the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland. He earned his B.A. at the University of Maryland, College Park in Communication within the Digital Communication & Media specialization alongside a Rhetoric minor. These studies have shaped Andrew's interest in learning more about digital spaces and marginalized identities, exploring how traditional rhetorical principles are being reimagined through digital culture.
Publications
Losing the API: Developing Novel Methods for Scraping Black Twitter
Co-authored piece with COMM members and alums!
Author/Lead: Andrew LoweContributor(s): Rianna Walcott, Abigail Vázquez Rosario
As digital platforms continually evolve, rapid changes to platform affordances quickly render digital tools and data collection methods obsolete. Researchers of digital culture therefore must proactively adapt to the ephemerality of data. This paper examines these challenges within the context of Twitter (X) following its 2022 acquisition by Elon Musk, and the subsequent limiting of access to the API for data collection. Using a combination of manual data-collection practices and Zeeschuimer [Peeters 2025], a browser extension that collects social media data while browsing, researchers developed a novel data collection method, and model methodological adaptability within shifting digital terrains.
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