[re-search] Fwd: Digital Methods Winter School 2013, Amsterdam
René König
kontakt at renekoenig.eu
Thu Oct 25 12:33:58 CEST 2012
Hi everyone,
the call for participants for the DMI winter school 2013 might be
interesting for some of you. I attended the summer school this year and
I can absolutely recommend it.
A number of the DMI tools can be used for search engine related research.
Best,
René
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Subject: Digital Methods Winter School 2013, Amsterdam
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:34:54 +0200
From: Richard Rogers <R.A.Rogers at uva.nl>
To: dmi at mediastudies.nl
Please forward to interested people
Call for Participants
Data Sprint: The New Logistics of Short-form Method
Digital Methods Winter School 2013 and Mini-Conference
22-25 January 2013
https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WinterSchool2013
Digital Methods Initiative
New Media & Digital Culture
University of Amsterdam
Turfdraagsterpad 9
1012 XT Amsterdam
the Netherlands
The Digital Methods Initiative (DMI), Amsterdam, is pleased to announce
its 5th annual Winter School, entitled "Data Sprint: The New Logistics
of Short-form Method
<https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WinterSchool2013>." The Digital
Methods Winter School provides the opportunity for PhD candidates,
advanced MA students and motivated scholars to present a short paper on
digital methods and new media related topics, and receive feedback from
the Amsterdam group of DMI researchers and international participants,
often drawn from previous Digital Methods Summer
<https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/DmiSummerSchool> and Winter Schools
<https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WinterSchool>. This year's Winter
School is four days, with one day devoted to the Mini-conference, where
the papers are presented and participants also serve as respondents, and
three days to the workshop. The theme of the workshop is "alternatives
to big data," and includes a data sprint.
Digital Methods Winter School Workshop
The 2013 Digital Methods Winter School is devoted to emerging
alternatives to big data. The Barcamp, Hackathon, Hack Day, Edit-a-thon,
Data Sprint, Code Fest, Open Data Day, Hack the Government, and
other workshop formats are sometimes thought of as "quick and dirty."
The work is exploratory, only the first step, outputting indicators at
most, before the serious research begins. However, these new formats
also may be viewed as alternative infrastructures as well as approaches
to big data in the sense of not only the equipment and logistics
involved (hit and run) but also the research set-up and protocols, which
may be referred to as "short-form method." The 2013 Digital Methods
Winter School is dedicated to the outcomes and critiques of short-form
method, and is also reflexive in that it includes a data sprint, where
we focus on one aspect of the debate about short- vs. long-form method:
data capture. At the Winter School the results of an actual data sprint
from a week earlier (on counter-Jihadists
<http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/counter-jihad/map/>) will be presented,
including a specific short-form method for issue mapping
<http://www.densitydesign.org/2012/10/visualizing-right-wing-populism-in-europe/>.
One outcome of the Winter School would be a comparison of methods for
their capacity to fit productively the workshop format (barcamp, sprint,
etc.), with the question of what may be achieved in shorter
(and shorter) time frames. We also will explore a variety of objects of
study for sprints, including data donations, where one offers particular
data sets for abbreviated analysis.
Digital Methods Winter School Mini-Conference
The data sprint is the Winter School workshop. There is also the annual
Digital Methods Winter School Mini-Conference. The mini-conference
provides the opportunity for digital methods and allied researchers
to present short yet complete papers (5,000-7,500 words) and serve as
respondents, providing feedback. Often the work presented follows from
previous Digital Methods Summer Schools. The mini-conference accepts
papers in the general digital methods and allied areas: the hyperlink
and other natively digital objects, the website as archived object, web
historiographies, search engine critique, Google as globalizing machine,
cross-spherical analysis and other approaches to comparative media
studies, device cultures, national web studies, Wikipedia as cultural
reference, the technicity of (networked) content, post-demographics,
platform studies, crawling and scraping, graphing and clouding, and
similar.
Key dates
19 December 2012: Submission of paper titles, abstracts and bios to
winterschool[at]digitalmethods.net <http://digitalmethods.net>.
21 December 2012: Notifications
14 January 2013: Submission of complete papers (5,000-7,500 words)
16 January 2013: Program and schedule available
22-25 January 2013: DMI Mini-conference and Workshop
Tentative Winter School Schedule
22 January 9.30-17.00 Mini-conference, per paper: 10-minute
presentations, two 5-minute responses, 5-minute Q&A
23 January 9.30-17.00 Workshop, with morning mini-talks, introducing
tracks and group projects (data sprint methods and findings from the
counter-jihadist network mapping); group formation with specific
short-form methods
24 January 9.30-17.00 Workshop, with morning talk on "short-form method
critique"
25 January 9.30-17.00 Workshop, with afternoon presentations
Fees & Logistics
The fee for the Digital Methods Winter School 2013 is EUR 195. Bank
transfer information will be sent along with the notification on 21
December 2012. The Winter School is self-catered. The venue is in the
center of Amsterdam with abundant coffee houses and lunch places. The
Winter School closes with a festive event, after the final
presentations. Participants are expected to find their own housing
(where airbnb and similar short-stay sites are helpful). The DMI
organisers are happy to provide tips. Here is a guide to the Amsterdam
new media scene <https://www.digitalmethods.net/MoM/NewMediaAmsterdam>.
About
The Digital Methods Winter School is part of the Digital Methods
Initiative, Amsterdam, dedicated to reworking method for
Internet-related research. The Digital Methods Initiative holds the
annual Digital Methods Summer Schools (six to date), which are intensive
and full time 2-week undertakings in the Summertime. The 2013 Summer
School will take place 24 June - 5 July 2012. The coordinators of the
Digital Methods Initiative are Sabine Niederer and Esther Weltevrede
(PhD candidates in New Media & Digital Culture, University of
Amsterdam), and the director is Richard Rogers, Professor of New Media &
Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam. Digital methods are online at
http://www.digitalmethods.net/. The DMI about page includes a
substantive introduction, and also a list of Digital Methods people,
with bios. DMI holds occasional Autumn and Spring workshops.
2012 Digital Methods Winter School Revisited
The 2012 Digital Methods Winter School was dedicated to "Interfaces for
the Cloud: Curating the Data
<https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WinterSchool2012>." Among the
speakers was Daniel van der Velden of Metahaven, the critical design
research group. The lecture that he gave is now published.
"Captives of the Cloud," parts I & II, are out on e-flux:
http://www.e-flux.com/journal/captives-of-the-cloud-part-i/
http://www.e-flux.com/journal/captives-of-the-cloud-part-ii/
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