Digital Methods Winter School 2013
SCHEDULE
Tuesday 22 January 2013: MINI-CONFERENCE
Location:
University of Amsterdam
Oudemanhuispoort 4-6,
1012 CN Amsterdam
Rooms A0.08 and C0.23 | 9:30 – 9:35 Welcome (Room A0.08)
Prof. Richard Rogers, New Media & Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam | |

9:35 – 10:50 Session I: Social Media (Room A0.08)
Chair: Michael Stevenson

Bernhard Rieder - Studying Facebook via Data Extraction: The Netvizz Application.
Respondents: Erik Borra and Jean-Christophe Plantin

Richard Rogers - De-banalizing Twitter
Respondents: Jill Walker Rettberg and Anne Helmond

Charlotte Webb, Nadia Dresscher-Lambertus, Nili Steinfeld, Simeona Petkova, Tommaso Renzini - The Visual Output of Kony 2012: Following Kony on Tumblr and Instagram.
Respondents: Bernhard Rieder and Johannes Passmann

| | 10:50 - 11:15 Coffee and Tea | | 11:15 - 12:30 Session II: Parallel Sessions | | A. Controversies (Room A0.08)
Chair: Anat Ben-David

Esther Weltevrede and Erik Borra - Repurposing Wikipedia as a Controversy Exploration Device.
Respondents: Michael Stevenson and David Moats

Natalia Sanchez - Issue Mapping of an Ageing Europe.
Respondents: Carolin Gerlitz and Nadia Dresscher-Lambertus

Nadia Dresscher-Lambertus - Tracing Islands: Epistemological, Ontological and Methodological Reflections on the Study of Island issues, Controversies and Publics Online.
Respondents: Esther Weltevrede and Natalia Sanchez | | B: Methods (Room C0.23)
Chair: Bernhard Rieder

Jean-Christophe Plantin - The Geography of Re-Distribution in Digital Research. A Comparative Ethnographic Study of Digital Humanities, Digital Methods and Cultural Analytics Laboratories.
Respondents: Anne Helmond and Charlotte Webb

Jill Walker Rettberg - Mining the Knowledge Base: Exploring Methodologies for Analyzing the Field of Electronic Literature.
Respondents: Julian Ausserhofer and Richard Rogers

Julian Ausserhofer - The Sociality of the Hashtag. The Role of Digital Objects in Issue Publics on Twitter.
Respondents: Nili Steinfeld and Lonneke van der Velden | | 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break | | 13:30 - 14:45 Session III: *Parallel Sessions* | | A: Time (Room A0.08)
Chair: Richard Rogers

Esther Weltevrede, Anne Helmond, Carolin Gerlitz - Pace Online.
Respondents: Bernhard Rieder and Johannes Passmann

Michael Stevenson - Historicizing Web Exceptionalism.
Respondents: David Berry and Anat Ben-David

Carolin Gerlitz and Johannes Passmann - Fiat Gifts? Accountable Gifts?
Respondents: Erik Borra and Esther Weltevrede | | B: Traces (Room C0.23)
Chair: Simeona Petkova

Lonneke van der Velden - The Third Party Diary: A Study into Third Party Elements on Governmental Websites.
Respondents: Jill Walker Rettberg and Eric Kluitenberg

David Moats - Writing the History of the Present: Wikipedia and Online News.
Respondents: Nicholas Makhortykh and Liliana Bounegru

Eric Kluitenberg - Media Swarms: Self-Mediation, Affect, and Emergent Forms of Political Association in the ‘Movements of the Squares.’
Respondents: Catherine Somzé and Lonneke van der Velden | | 14:45 - 15:15 Coffee and Tea Break | | 15:15 - 16:30 Session IV: Archives (Room A0.08)
Chair: Esther Weltevrede

Anat Ben-David - Unpacking Archival Silences: A Literature Review of Research Using Web Archives and Temporal Web Collections.
Respondents: Michael Stevenson and Carolin Gerlitz

Anne Helmond - Traces of the Trackers. Using the Internet Archive to Study Historical Web Ecologies.
Respondents: Anat Ben-David and David Moats

Nicholas Makhortykh - Memory Dynamics in Wikipedia: Quantitative Study of World War II Representations.
Respondents: Richard Rogers and Simeona Petkova | | 16:30 - 17:00 Closing Remarks
By Prof. Richard Rogers |
Format:
5-minute presentations per paper, two 5-minute responses, 5-minute author reply, 5 min Q&A


























Wednesday 23 January 2013:
Data Sprint: The New Logistics of Short-Form Method
9:30 - 11:00 Data Sprint Showcase
New Media MA students present the results of the Data Sprint: ‘What does the Internet add? Studying Extremism and Counter-Jihadism Online’
Chair: Prof. Richard Rogers

Location: University Theatre, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, 1012 CP Amsterdam, Room 3.01

11:00 – 11:15 Coffee and Tea

11:30 – 12:30 Lecture
Adam Hyde - ‘Reflections on the Book Sprint Format I’
Chair: Michael Dieter

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 – 15:00 Data Sprint Project Formation
Location: University of Amsterdam, Media Studies, Turfdraagsterpad 9, 1012 XT Amsterdam, Room 0.12
Chair: Prof. Richard Rogers

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee and Tea

15:30 - 17:15 Data Sprint Warm-up

Thursday 24 January 2013
9:30 - 11:00 Lecture
David Berry - Reflections on the Book Sprint Format II
Location: University of Amsterdam, Oudemanhuispoort 4-6, Room C3.17
Chair: Jill Walker Rettberg

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee and Tea

11:30 – 12:30 Lecture
Hans Henseler - Digital Forensics
Chair: Erik Borra

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 – 15:00 Data Sprint
Location:
University of Amsterdam
Media Studies
Turfdraagsterpad 9
1012 XT Amsterdam
Rooms 0.12 and 0.13

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee and Tea

15:30 - 17:00 Data Sprint

Friday 25 January 2013
9:30 - 11:00 Data Sprint
Location:
University of Amsterdam
Media Studies
Turfdraagsterpad 9
1012 XT Amsterdam
Rooms 0.04 and 0.13

11:00 – 11:20 Coffee and Tea

11:20 – 13:00 Data Sprint

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 – 15.00 Data Sprint

15.00 - 15.15 Coffee and Tea

15.15 - 17.30 Final Presentations (Room 0.04)

17.30 Festive Closing