Contrapuntal: Critical AI
for public scholarship and civil society
Contrapuntal is a humanities‑forward platform for building and sharing datasets. Archive social media content for you and the community. It’s designed for researchers, classrooms, and communities who treat data as contested—structured by power, infrastructures, and histories.
Start with a dataset, not a prompt.
Explore historical datasets from Twitter, Parlor and more that our community has created. Save or Download these datasets.
Explore DatasetsArchive and Curate, a public archive
Our tool lets you grab text, images, links, author, timestamp from social media platforms and curate them into datasets. You save datasets and share them with the community.
Archive Social MediaVisualize data and new perspectives
Contrapuntal is designed so research begins with a a dataset with provenance. From there you can map, compare, visualize, and publish—while keeping the interpretive frame visible.
Visualize DatasetsBuilt for the Humanities
Contrapuntal is humanities research at the scale of platforms, so public scholarship can be made, reviewed, and shared.
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