Mapping Online Publics

The European University Institute is offering 160 Grants for a Ph.D. for the Academic Year 2012-13 in the fields of Economics, History & Civilization, Law and Political & Social Sciences.

Deadline for all applications is 31 January 2012.

For more information, visit http://www.eui.eu/ServicesAndAdmin/AcademicService/News/2011/10-28-160PhDgrants2012-2013.aspx 

 

  

Event details

Date: Wednesday, 16 November and Thursday, 17 November 2011

Time: 9.30am – 5.00pm (Wednesday) and 9.00am – 6.00pm (Thursday)

Venue: UNSW Sydney – CBD Campus (Wednesday) and Kensington Campus (Thursday)

For more information and to register, visit the CCI website.

Keynote from Düsseldorf Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twitter Analysis (DIATA11) 14 -15 September 2011, Düsseldorf, Germany

eResearch Australasia is a conference that brings together practitioners and researchers for a stimulating week to share ideas and exemplars on new information centric research capabilities.  eResearch is focused on how information and communications technologies help researchers to collect, manage, share, process, analyse, store, find, and re-use information.  2011 is the fifth year for this annual conference which has grown to around 400 delegates.

For more information and to register, visit http://conference.eresearch.edu.au/. Early bird registrations close Sunday, 9 October 2011.

On 23 September 2011, Creative Commons Australia is holding the Open Government Data Conference and Data Camp at QUT in Brisbane. This seminar is designed to showcase the leaders in this area from Australia and internationally. They will explain the background, history and rationale for Open Government Data both at a conceptual and practical level and highlight real life examples which can make it easier to understand why this topic is now seen by most policy makers as integral to government practice.

If you are interested, please register via http://tiny.cc/OGDBrisbane.

An information science research group developing software and methods to exploit Internet-based sources for social sciences research. We research scientometrics, link analysis, cybermetrics, webometrics, web science and sentiment analysis.

The virality of information project at the University of Washington:

The retroV team is an interdisciplinary research group investigating the dynamics of information and content distribution in networks. We examine online ecologies of information in social media networks. We are interested in understanding power relationships among different actors and their influence on dynamics of information flows. Our strength is in combining knowledge of network structures and information flows with empirical data to overcome barriers of information access and usage.

from Indiana University Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research [via Visual Complexity]

The Association of Internet Researchers (AOIR) is an important venue if you´re interested in, like the name indicates, Internet research. But it is also a good primary source if one wants to inquire into how and why people study the Internet, which aspects of it, etc. Conveniently for empirical researcher that I am, the AOIR has an archive of its mailing-list, which has about 22K mails posted by 3K addresses, enough for a little playing around with the lazy man´s tool, the algorithm. I have downloaded the data and I hope I can motivate some of my students to build something interesting with it, but I just had to put it into gephi right away. Some of the tools we´ll hopefully build will concentrate more on text mining but using an address as a node and a mail-reply relationship as a link, one can easily build a social graph.