Digital Methods Summer School 2011 Schedule

Week 1

Monday: June 27, 2011

Pre-opening of the Summer School at the inauguration of National Media Studies centre.

Welcome: Turfdraagsterpad 9, Room 0.13 (A)

Lecture: Amsterdam University Library, Singel 425, Room: Doelenzaal (B)

9.30 – 10.30 Welcome session

Introduction to Digital Methods Summer School 2011 by Anne Helmond and Carolin Gerlitz

10.30 – 11.30 Coffee and tour of the facilities

11.30 – 12.30 Lecture by Prof. Dr. William Uricchio (Universiteit Utrecht/MIT): “Media Futures, Media Pasts. Future-casting is a fraught enterprise, but one thing is certain: the pace of change in media technology and cultural practices is sure to keep pace with such markers as Moore’s law and ever-faster network speeds. The new possibilities for aggregating participation and their attendant algorithms have helped to recontextualize established media forms, enabled the transformation of hierarchies of power and taste, and challenged existing analytic paradigms. How might the study of media, rooted in humanities, arts and social science traditions, respond to these pressures? And in those responses, might we find the seeds of change for the humanities, contributing back to the traditions that gave our study form?

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch break

13.30 – 14.15 Lecture by Prof. Dr. Marcel Broersma (Rijks Universiteit Groningen)

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Doing Digital Methods, RMeS workshop

Lecture & Shorts: Amsterdam University Library, Singel 425, Room: Doelenzaal (B)

Workshops: University of Amsterdam, building BG5, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 233-237, Rooms 2.03, 2.04, 2.22, 2.29 (C)

9:30 – 10:45 Lecture by Prof. Dr. Richard Rogers on Digital Methods
How do we learn and develop research techniques for studying societal conditions and
cultural change with the Internet? New tools include scripts to scrape web, blog, news,
image and social bookmarking search engines, as well as simple analytical machines that output data sets as well as graphical visualizations.

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:45 DMI Shorts (10-minute talks) [moderated by Michael Stevenson]
Introduction of afternoon workshops by facilitators

12:45 – 13:45 Lunch

13:45 – 15:15 Workshops & Talkshops I
Query Design: Basic (Anat Ben-David & Erik Borra). Room 2.03
Data Visualization: Clouding (Anne Helmond & Sabine Niederer). Room 2.04
Wikileaks and Data-driven Journalism (Catalina Iorga & Richard Rogers). Room 2.22
Crawling and Scraping: Issue Crawler & Lippmannian Device (Esther Weltevrede, Noortje Marres & Michael Stevenson). Room 2.29

15:15 – 15:30 Tea break

15:30 – 17:00 Workshops & Talkshops II
Query Design: Advanced (Erik Borra & Anat Ben-David). Room 2.03
Data Visualization: Comparative Clouding (Sabine Niederer & Anne Helmond). Room 2.04
Facebook Data (Carolin Gerlitz & Lonneke van der Velden). Room 2.22
Wikipedia and National Points of View (Emina Sendijarevic & Richard Rogers). Room 2.29

Wednesday, 29 June

Lectures: Universiteitstheater, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, Room 3.01 (D)

Project development: Turfdraagsterpad 9, Rooms 0.13 & 0.04 (A)

09.30 – 11.00 Lecture by Noortje Marres (Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London): Post-social methods? Remediating co-word analysis

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break

11.30 – 12.30 Big Data - opening lecture by Richard Rogers.

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch

13.30 – 15.00 Collective project idea development

15.00 – 15.30 Tea break

15.30 – 17.30 Project group formations

Thursday, 30 June

Participants work on projects: Supervised by Anne Helmond & Carolin Gerlitz

Location: Turfdraagsterpad 9, Rooms 0.13 & 0.04 (A)

09.30 – 11.00 Work on projects

11.00 – 11.15 Coffee break

11.15 – 13.00 Work on projects

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.45 Gephi workshop by Bernhard Rieder (University of Amsterdam)

15.45 – 16.00 Tea break

16.00 – 17.30 Work on projects

Friday, 1 July

Morning Lecture: Universiteitstheater, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, Room 3.01 (D)

Project work & presentation: Turfdraagsterpad 9, Rooms 0.13 & 0.04 (A)

09.30 – 11.00 Lecture by Erik Borra (Digital Methods Initiative, University of Amsterdam): Analyzing Big Data: Engine Log Analysis

11.00 – 11.15 Coffee break

11.15 – 13.00 Work on projects

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.30 Work on projects

15.30 – 15.45 Tea break

15.45 – 17.30 Final presentations of week 1.

17.30 Closing

Week 2

Monday, 4 July

Lectures: Universiteitstheater, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, Room 3.01 (D)

Project group formation: Turfdraagsterpad 9, Rooms 0.13 & 0.04 (A)

11.00 – 12.00 Lecture by Stuart Shulman (Political Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst): Measuring Validity in Human and Machine Annotation

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch

13.00 – 15.00 Project Shorts: 7-minute project pitches by DMI.

15.00 – 15.30 Tea break

15.30 – 17.30 Project group formations

Tuesday, 5 July

Participants work on projects: Supervised by Anne Helmond & Carolin Gerlitz

Location: Turfdraagsterpad 9, Rooms 0.13 & 0.04 (A)

09.30 – 11.00 Work on projects

11.00 – 11.15 Coffee break

11.15 – 13.00 Work on projects

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.45 Work on projects

15.45 – 16.00 Tea break

16.00 – 17.30 Work on projects

Wednesday, 6 July

Presentations: Universiteitstheater, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, Room 3.01 (D)

Project work: Turfdraagsterpad 9, Rooms 0.13 & 0.04 (A)

09.30 – 11.00 Lecture by Christian Sandvig (Media Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): When Everything is Wireless and Nothing is Planned: Digital Centers, Edges, and Voids in the Study of Infrastructure.

11.00 – 11.15 Coffee break

11.15 – 12.00 Lecture/workshop by Alex Hache Presenting Autonomous Social Networking Sites :http://lorea.cc/. Slides from the presentation: https://n-1.cc/pg/file/spideralex/read/444175/dmi-summer-school-2011-lorea-presentation-english

12.00 – 13.00 Work on projects

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.45 Work on projects

15.45 – 16.00 Tea break

16.00 – 17.30 Work on projects

Thursday, 7 July

Participants work on projects: Supervised by Anne Helmond & Carolin Gerlitz

Location: Turfdraagsterpad 9, Rooms 0.13 & 0.04 (A)

09.30 – 11.00 Work on projects

11.00 – 11.15 Coffee break

11.15 – 13.00 Work on projects

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.45 Work on projects

15.45 – 16.00 Tea break

16.00 – 17.30 Work on projects

Friday, 8 July

Presentations: Universiteitstheater, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, Room 3.01 (D)

Project work: Turfdraagsterpad 9, Rooms 0.13 & 0.04 (A)

09.30 – 11.00 Literature Salon. Chair: Marc Tuters. See Salon wiki page. DmiSummer2011Salon

11.00 – 11.15 Coffee break

11.15 – 13.00 Work on projects

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15:00 Work on projects

15.00 – 16.00 Final presentations of week II

16.00 – 16.30 Tea break

16.30 – 17.30 Final presentations of week II.

17.30 Festive Closing

Locations

A) Media Studies. Turfdraagsterpad 9, 1012 XT, Amsterdam. Rooms: 0.13 and 0.04

B) Amsterdam University Library, Singel 425, 1012 WP, Amsterdam. Room: Doelenzaal

C) University of Amsterdam, building BG5, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 233-237, Rooms 2.03, 2.04, 2.22, 2.29

D) Universiteitstheater/University Theatre, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, 1012 CP, Amsterdam. Room 3.01