CONTRAPUNTAL

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.

Explore datasetsArchive Social MediaVisualize Datasets

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 Datasets

Archive 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 Media

Visualize 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 Datasets
Built for the Humanities
Search SourcesBluesky · Reddit · ZoteroPublic ArchivesCreate a DatasetCollect Social Media ContentEdit, Save, StoreArchive CollectionsExport, Upload, PublishContribute to public archive.Visualize DataReimagine DatasetsTeaching · Reviewcritique, revision, accountability

Contrapuntal is humanities research at the scale of platforms, so public scholarship can be made, reviewed, and shared.


Get started in 5 steps
1. Set up your profile2. Browse, Save and Download Datasets3. Archiving Social Media Content



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