[Commlist] Call for applications - Digital Media Winter Institute 2020| SMART Data Sprint 2020

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

Digital Media Winter Institute 2020| SMART Data Sprint 2020

27 January - 06 February, 2020

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Lisbon, Portugal

Digital Media Winter Institute has annually gathered a network of 
international researchers, with different backgrounds and expertise, 
interested in doing investigations from the perspective of digital 
methods. New media researchers, journalists, developers, data designers, 
digital methods experts, sociologists, data scientists and more are 
meeting in Lisbon to work and improve their skills, in theory, practice 
and critique of digital methods.

The program of #DMWI2020 brings the fourth edition of #SMARTDataSprint 
with an international program: keynotes and practical labs by Tommaso 
Venturini(médialab of Sciences Po Paris) and Bernhard Rieder(University 
of Amsterdam). His keynote talk and practical labs are going to explore 
visual network analysis.Rieder is an associate professor in New Media 
and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam and a researcher at 
the Digital Methods Initiative. He will give a keynote on mapping 
value(s) in artificial intelligence (AI).

In the first week of DMWI, from 27 to 31 January 2020, participants from 
around the world will come to Lisbon to attend keynote lectures, short 
talks, parallel sessions of practical labs and join applied research 
projects. Experts and scholars will invite participants to work 
collectively on issues involving internet memes and platform censorship, 
Anti-Feminist and Anti-LGBT Discourses, Method maps and Cross-Platform 
Digital Networks. Other opportunities for hands-on experimentation with 
methods are on the schedule with the following practical labs:

» YouTube Research & Ranking Culture

» Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Maps and 
Measures with NodeXL

» Gephi for beginners

» How to work with spreadsheets

» Shaping questions for Trends Studies through Digital Methods

» Raw Graphs for data exploratory analysis

» Data mining and visualisation with R

» Getting to know data extraction + text analysis tools

» Visual Network Analysis

» Building Image-hashtag Networks

» Visual social media analysis

» Studying visual social media through Vision APIs

» Data Beautification

» Natural language processing tools for data analysis and extraction

» When DataViz is ugly

To participate in the SMART Data Sprint 2020 is necessary to submit an 
application, until January 13, and pay the attendee fee. Also scheduled 
for the Digital Media Winter Institute 2020, from February 3 to 6, the 
workshop "Tracking, visualizing and accounting for the networks of 
(dis-)information with the web crawler Hyphe", taught by Mathieu Jacomy 
will be promoted. Jacomy is a techno-anthropologist at the University of 
Aalborg, TANTLab, a former researcher engineer at médialab of Sciences 
Po Paris and co-founder of Gephi software. The proposal of the workshop 
is to study and apply the Hyphe webcrawler and understand both 
information and misinformation issues on the web. Participation in the 
workshop also requires prior registration by January 20, 2020.

Application #SMARTDataSprint: <http://bit.ly/SMARTdatasprint2020>

Application deadline: January 13, 2020

Application Workshop Tracking, visualizing and accounting for the 
networks of (dis-)information with the web crawler Hyphe: 
<http://bit.ly/DMWI-HypheWorkshop>

Application deadline: January 20,  2020

Complete info: <http://smart.inovamedialab.org 
<http://smart.inovamedialab.org/2020-digital-methods>>


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