[ecrea] doctoral students and early career scholars Digital Society Research Methods Workshop

topic: doctoral students and early career scholars Digital Society 
Research Methods Workshop 10-11 Sept


The New Research on Digital Societies (NeRDS) Research Group at 
Kozminski University invites applications from PhD students and early 
career scholars to a Digital Society Research Methods Workshop: 
“Interpreting Social Activites Online”, held at Kozminski University in 
*Warsaw on 10-11 September 2017.*

The 5 mini-courses conducted during the workshop oscillate around the 
broad theme of social scientific interpretation of social actors’ 
activities online. What methods and theories can be applied to reach 
beyond the surface of the Internet content and digital traces, and 
enhance our understanding of social behavior in the digitized society?

Workshops:


Dr. Piotr Sapieżyński, Northeastern University
/Online friends and their offline behaviors/

In this workshop I’ll share the lessons we’ve learnt during the a large 
scale study of online and offline social interactions among a group of 
1000 students, the Copenhagen Networks Study. I’ll describe the 
opportunities and pitfalls of using online data as a proxy for 
underlying, offline social networks and compare the insights gained from 
questionnaires to those derived from behavioral (online and offline) 
data. I’ll also showcase a few tools for network visualization and analysis.


Amanda Menking, University of Washington
/Telling Stories about the Internet/

While we generally associate stories with fabrications and fictions, we 
are hard-wired to and continuously shaped by the stories we tell about 
ourselves, others, and our work. In this talk, I will discuss how we can 
use narratives in our work in ways that are—at once—rigorous and 
delightful, and that help us to be better Internet researchers. I will 
provide examples from my dissertation, drawing on methods such as 
interviews, interpersonal process recall, and object biographies. These 
methods rely upon narrative and are extremely well-suited for studying 
digital cultures, enabling us to approach both participants and the 
content they produce as units of analyses.


Prof. Dariusz Jemielniak, Kozminski University
/Doing digital ethnography: tales from the e-field
/

A current Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees member, as well as 
digital ethnography veteran, and an author of “Common Knowledge?” (2014 
Stanford University Press, winner of 2015 Dorothy Lee Award and 2016 
Chair of the Polish Academy of Sciences academic excellence award) will 
run a practical workshop on the nuances of identity work, ethical 
concerns when doing online ethnography, as well as the issues of 
differences and similarities with traditional fieldwork.


Dr. Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer, Kozminski University
/Information, gossip, memes, and post-truths: constructing narratives 
and creating knowledge in online news/

As part of the workshop, we will analyze how news, particularly those 
focused on politics and scandals, are shaped, distributed, and 
reinterpreted online. We will focus on how traditional internet portals 
and social media reinforce each other in creating this type of knowledge 
and narratives; how their distribution if formed in time and online 
spaces; and how this information can be studied from the point of view 
of useful analytical tools and theoretical approaches.

Dr. Paweł Krzyworzeka, Kozminski University
/How to combine your online and offline research
/

In this workshop, we are going to answer fundamental questions about 
mixing online and offline research in social sciences. When is online 
only research not enough? What is the value of meeting online community 
members in person? Strategies for combining both types of research?


*How to apply?*
?
We invite PhD students and Early Career Scholars who conduct or consider 
conducting social Internet research.

To apply, please fill in the following form before June 30, 2017.
https://goo.gl/forms/v6x7a7tXJj2xF7SM2

  The notification of acceptance will be sent before July 15, 2017.

The basic workshop fee is 85€.

We plan to organize dinner and a short trip around Warsaw as a 
facultative option. We may also have some limited funding/waivers for 
special needs applicants.

More details: 
http://nerds.kozminski.edu.pl/digital-society-research-methods-workshop/


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