Workshop and Lecture “Analyzing Social Media with Digital Methods”, October 21st, FCSH/NOVA

13 Oct 2015

Bernhard Rieder, associate professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam and a researcher with the Digital Methods Initiative will be conducting a Workshop and a Lecture on Analyzing Social Media with Digital Methods, at FCSH/NOVA, October 21st.

Workshop
Analyzing Social Media with Digital Methods: a Hands-on Introduction
October 21, 16h00-18h00
Room 1.06, I&D building
Free attendance, REGISTRATIONS CLOSED

This workshop will initiate participants into the practice of data-driven analysis of social media platforms. With a focus on Facebook and YouTube, we will look at what data are available, how they can be retrieved, and what tools and methods can be used to analyze them. Through a number of hands-on exercises, this workshop will walk through these different steps in a practical fashion and reflect on their relationship with potential research questions. To fully engage in these exercises, participants are asked to bring their laptops and install the gephi software (http://gephi.org) beforehand.

Lecture
Analyzing Social Media with Digital Methods: Possibilities, Requirements, and Limitations
October 21, 18h-20h
Auditorium 3, 5. º Floor of the main building

This lecture gives an overview of the current state of data-driven research of social media platforms and the communicative practices they enable. Taking Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube as its main examples, the talk will show how analyzing these platforms affords interesting possibilities for social scientific research and, at the same time, presents considerable challenges that require methodological attentiveness and interdisciplinary sensitivity.


Short Bio
Bernhard Rieder is an associate professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam and a researcher with the Digital Methods Initiative. His work is focused on the theory and history of software and on the development, application, and critique of digital methods for Internet research.