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Hi everyone,<br>
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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.<br>
A number of the DMI tools can be used for search engine related
research. <br>
Best,<br>
<br>
René <br>
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Call for Participants<br>
<br>
Data Sprint: The New Logistics of Short-form Method<br>
Digital Methods Winter School 2013 and Mini-Conference<br>
22-25 January 2013<br>
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Digital Methods Initiative<br>
New Media & Digital Culture<br>
University of Amsterdam<br>
Turfdraagsterpad 9<br>
1012 XT Amsterdam<br>
the Netherlands<br>
<br>
The Digital Methods Initiative (DMI), Amsterdam, is pleased to
announce its 5th annual Winter School, entitled "<a
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href="https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WinterSchool2013">Data
Sprint: The New Logistics of Short-form Method</a>." 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 <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/DmiSummerSchool">Digital
Methods Summer</a> and <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WinterSchool">Winter Schools</a>.
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.<br>
<br>
Digital Methods Winter School Workshop<br>
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 <a
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href="http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/counter-jihad/map/">counter-Jihadists</a>)
will be presented, including a specific <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.densitydesign.org/2012/10/visualizing-right-wing-populism-in-europe/">short-form
method for issue mapping</a>. 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. <br>
<br>
Digital Methods Winter School Mini-Conference<br>
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. <br>
<br>
<br>
Key dates<br>
<br>
19 December 2012: Submission of paper titles, abstracts and bios
to winterschool[at]<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://digitalmethods.net">digitalmethods.net</a>. <br>
21 December 2012: Notifications<br>
14 January 2013: Submission of complete papers (5,000-7,500 words)<br>
16 January 2013: Program and schedule available<br>
22-25 January 2013: DMI Mini-conference and Workshop<br>
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Tentative Winter School Schedule<br>
<br>
22 January 9.30-17.00 Mini-conference, per paper: 10-minute
presentations, two 5-minute responses, 5-minute Q&A <br>
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<br>
24 January 9.30-17.00 Workshop, with morning talk on "short-form
method critique"<br>
25 January 9.30-17.00 Workshop, with afternoon presentations <br>
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Fees & Logistics
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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 <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.digitalmethods.net/MoM/NewMediaAmsterdam">new
media scene</a>.<br>
<br>
About<br>
<br>
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
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.digitalmethods.net/">http://www.digitalmethods.net/</a>.
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.<br>
<br>
<br>
2012 Digital Methods Winter School Revisited<br>
<br>
The 2012 Digital Methods Winter School was dedicated to "<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WinterSchool2012">Interfaces
for the Cloud: Curating the Data</a>." Among the speakers was
Daniel van der Velden of Metahaven, the critical design research
group. The lecture that he gave is now published.<br>
<br>
"Captives of the Cloud," parts I & II, are out on e-flux:<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.e-flux.com/journal/captives-of-the-cloud-part-i/">http://www.e-flux.com/journal/captives-of-the-cloud-part-i/</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.e-flux.com/journal/captives-of-the-cloud-part-ii/">http://www.e-flux.com/journal/captives-of-the-cloud-part-ii/</a><br>
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