[ecrea] Digital data – lost, found, and made -- Seminar in Copenhagen, October 16, 2012

*Digital data – lost, found, and made*

Seminar

Center for Communication and Computing – http://ccc.ku.dk/

University of Copenhagen

Southern Campus, Room 24.4.01

October 16, 2012


Communication on the internet and in other digital media is continuously 
recording itself – these data are there to be found. They 
include meta-data – data about data – that carry much information beyond 
the actual messages that are ‘sent’ and ‘received.’ Meta-data situate 
these messages in relation to their contexts – the source of 
information, its connections with other items of information, their 
trajectories across sites and servers, and the local users of the 
information, who, perhaps, add their own meta-data. At the same time, 
various other kinds of data must be made in order to account for the 
place of digital media in social interaction on a global scale. The 
resulting challenges to research are as massive as the amounts of data 
involved – what is referred to in both academia and industry as big data.

This seminar brings key contributors to the first decade of internet 
research to the Copenhagen Center for Communication and Computing in 
order to address these challenges in an interdisciplinary dialogue. Each 
presentation is followed by Q&A, and the seminar concludes with a panel 
debate and plenary discussion.

The seminar is open and free – no registration is required. For further 
information, please contact Kasper Rasmussen <(kasper.r /at/ diku.dk)>


PROGRAM

9:45                 Welcome (Head of Center, Professor Jørgen Bansler)

10:00               Lost, found, and made – meta-data, meta-media, and 
meta-communication (Klaus Bruhn Jensen)

10:30               The data we can’t see (Nancy Baym)

11:00               COFFEE

11:15               The analytical construction of web data (Casper Radil)

11:45               Jumping to conclusions – making sense of the long 
tail of Danes’ internet use by incorporating content analysis 
and probabilistic sampling (Rasmus Helles)

12:15               LUNCH

13:15               Twitter, big data, and the search for meaning – 
methodology in progress (Axel Bruns)

13:45               Towards more intelligent search engines (Christian 
Lioma)

14:15               Detecting learning in networked environments (Alex 
Halavais)

14:45               Representation vs. invention in the age of endless 
data: Looking closely at methodological and ethical choices 
(Annette Markham)

15:15               COFFEE

15:30               Panel debate with presenters

16:30               Closing



PRESENTERS

Nancy Baym. Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge. She has 
written on online community, online audiences, and interpersonal 
relationships and new media. Her books include Personal Connections in 
the Digital Age (Polity) and, with Annette Markham, Internet Inquiry: 
Conversations about Method (Sage.)

Axel Bruns. Associate Professor at Queensland University of Technology, 
Australia. Chief Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence 
for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) and General Editor at M/C 
- Media and Culture. Publications include Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life 
and Beyond: From Production to Produsage (2008).

Alex Halavais. Associate Professor of Communications at Arizona State 
University, USA. Halavais’s recent work has focused on tracing learning 
within networked communities, particularly using social media ("Do Dugg 
Diggers Digg

Diligently," published in iCS last year, and ongoing research on the use 
of Twitter in social protest). Other publications include Search Engine 
Society (2009).

Rasmus Helles. Associate Professor, Department of Media, Cognition, and 
Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.  Rasmus’ work focuses 
on the everyday use of digital media, especially through log files as a 
source of empirical data. Recent publications include articles on mobile 
phone and internet use patterns.

Klaus Bruhn Jensen. Professor, Department of Media, Cognition, 
and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 
Publications include A Handbook of Media and Communication Research: 
Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies, 
2nd edition (Routledge, 2012), contributions to 
the International Encyclopedia of Communication (12 vols, Blackwell, 
2008), for which he serves as Area Editor of Communication Theory and 
Philosophy, and Media Convergence: The Three Degrees of Network, Mass, 
and Interpersonal Communication (Routledge, 2010).

Christina Lioma. Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer 
Science, University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on 
the computational science behind search engines (Information Retrieval) 
and human language (Computational Linguistics). Since 2004, she has been 
working at the crossroads of these two areas, effectively alternating 
between thinking like a computer scientist and thinking like a linguist.

Annette Markham. Guest Professor, Department of Informatics, Umeaa 
University, Sweden. Annette serves as the co-editor of the International 
Journal of Internet Research Ethics. 
Publications include Internet Inquiry: Dialogue Among 
Scholars (co-edited with Nancy Baym, Sage 2009); Life Online: 
Researching Real Experience in Virtual Space (Sage, 1998); and a range 
of articles and book chapters related to interpretive qualitative 
research in internet studies. She is currently working on a 
book manuscript entitled: The Ethics of Fabrication.

Casper Radil. PhD fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Department of 
Media, Cognition, and Communication, writing his dissertation on how the 
Internet is changing Danish football fan culture. Outside the 
university, he is working in the company Interfazes that develops new 
conceptual tools and methods to comprehend online behavior as well as 
using these methods to advise large public organizations and private 
companies.


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Klaus Bruhn Jensen
Professor, dr.phil.

Film and Media Studies Section
Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication
University of Copenhagen
DK-2300 Copenhagen S
Denmark

(kbj /at/ hum.ku.dk) <mailto:(kbj /at/ hum.ku.dk)>
www.media.ku.dk

Tel +45-35328100
Fax +45-35328110

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*New publication - 2nd edition*

Jensen, KB (Ed.) (2012). A Handbook of Media and Communication Research: 
Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies. 2nd edition. London, New 
York: Routledge, www.routledge.com/9780415609661