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Big Data Symposium
Within the context of the Big Data Week Utrecht, the MA New Media & Digital Culture at Utrecht University is organizing a mini-symposium to explore the potential values and pitfalls of working with ‘big data.’ Several practitioners (incl. Jan-Willem van Beek, Greenberry) and researchers (incl. Dr. Bernhard Rieder, UvA) have been invited to share with…
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Data School turns 10!
Last week, our anniversary celebration took place: a big party to which all friends of Data School, former employees, trainees, alumni and, of course, the current team were invited. Co-founder of Data School, Thomas Boeschoten, told how it had all started. Mirko Tobias Schäfer was interviewed about how things are going now. And we looked…
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Masterclass Mapping the Public Sphere with Deen Freelon
Deen Freelon is a communication scholar at American University of Washington. His data-driven research focuses on political communication in the expanded public sphere of social media networks. Freelon will give a masterclass on computational methods and mapping online publics. 14-18 April. […] Read more
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Guest Lecture by Liliana Bounegru and Jonathan Gray on Digital Methods and Data Journalism
The Data School is proud to announce a guest lecture by Liliana Bounegru and Jonathan Gray. Their lecture will examine how new tools and methods from internet research and the social sciences might be used by digital journalists to improve coverage of complex issues. The talk is based on their work on this area as…
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Publication: “Mediating the Black Pete Discussion on Facebook: Slacktivism, flaming wars, and deliberation”
Published in First Monday Volume 19, Number 12 – 1 December 2014 Karin van Es, Daniela van Geenen, Thomas Boeschoten Abstract In this paper we counter the idea that Facebook is a unified medium and stress the need to analyze the distinct qualities of its pages. We do so by exploring the Black Pete discussion…