[Commlist] Digimethods 2023: Africa Digital Methods Winter School

Digimethods 2023: Africa Digital Methods Winter School at Rhodes 
University in South Africa


19-22 June 2023

We invite digital media researchers and  postgraduate students to attend 
a digital methods winter school that will explore topics in the field of 
Media and Journalism Studies related to the study of digital media, 
social media and mobile apps. Whether you are a seasoned digital 
researcher or a total novice, or primarily a qualitative researcher 
looking to expand your repertoire of methods, this Winter School is for you.

The four-day winter school in Makhanda from 19-22 June 2023 will be an 
immersive experience starting off with a series of masterclasses that 
will ready participants to take part in small research teams. On the 
first day we kick off the winter school by exploring a range of tools. 
Participants will learn methods for scraping, visualising and analysing 
online textual and visual data and then apply these towards answering  
actual research questions over the final three days of the winter 
school. They will tackle uniquely African research questions related to 
digital and social media and participate in a carefully choreographed 
research scrum that will result in a range of original findings.

Currently topics of interest being developed include:


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    Textual analysis tools for exploring African News websites

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    Social media and network analysis

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    Tools for exploring mobile apps

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    Visual analysis of social media

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    Machine learning


We have already signed up the following speakers to share their 
extensive experience in the field:


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    Dr Dani Madrid-Morales, Sheffield University (Content analysis tools
    using R-Studio)

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    Dr Dennis Nguyen, Utrecht University (Data Bias & online content
    analysis)

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    Dr Henri-Count Evans, University of eSwatini (Social Network Analysis)

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    Prof Adam Peruta, Syracuse University (Understanding mobile apps)

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    Mr Jean le Roux, DFR Lab (Misinformation Online)


  And online presentations by:

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    Prof Anne Helmond, University of Utrecht (Mobile App Methods)

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    Dr Ranjit Singh, Data & Society  (AI research agenda for the
    majority world)


We will aim towards:

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    Showing how certain digital methods lend themselves to specific
    research questions

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    Sharing approaches for developing relevant research questions that
    can be researched through digital methods.

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    Developing appropriate research questions related to African
    cultural phenomena, working within specific topics relevant to
    digital media on the continent.

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    Getting participants to sign up for a small research team in which
    they will generate local research questions, scrape, visualise and
    analyse data.

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    Furthermore, we will also showcase research methods developed on the
    continent.

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    We will develop all of this into a handbook for digital methods for
    the Global South as well as a MOOC.

We are looking to compile a sense of interest in the winter school as 
well as ideas for local collaborators and possible topics for research 
through such digital methods. Any enquiries should be directed at Alette 
Schoon on (a.schoon /at/ ru.ac.za) <mailto:(a.schoon /at/ ru.ac.za)>.


We invite you to fill in this Google Form to indicate your interest in 
the Winter School: https://forms.gle/vCTKT3EsKG4PgJzh8 
<https://forms.gle/vCTKT3EsKG4PgJzh8>


The Winter School will be directly followed by a colloquium for 
journalism and media educators, who are invited to submit a proposal at 
the following link: https://forms.gle/YjFjBwxykE2vFZjAA 
<https://forms.gle/YjFjBwxykE2vFZjAA>.

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