Digital Media Winter Institute 2020 | iNova Media Lab

January  27-31, 2020 I 9h30 - 18h

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Deadline: January 13, 2020

We are pleased to invite you to SMART Data Sprint 2020!

The fourth edition of SMART Data Sprint brings together an international program with keynotes and practical labs by Tommaso Venturini (médialab of Sciences Po Paris) and Bernhard Rieder (University of Amsterdam). Venturini is a researcher at the CNRS Centre for Internet and Society, an associate researcher of INRIA and a founding member of the Public Data Lab. His keynote talk and practical labs are going to explore visual network analysis. Rieder is an associate professor in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam and a researcher at the Digital Methods Initiative. He will give a keynote on mapping value(s) in artificial intelligence (AI). The SMART Data Sprint is part of the Digital Media Winter Institute 2020 (DMWI).

In the first week of DMWI, from 27 to 31 January 2020, participants from around the world will come to Lisbon to attend keynote lectures, short talks, parallel sessions of practical labs and join applied research projects. Experts and scholars will invite participants to work collectively on issues involving internet memes and platform censorship, Anti-Feminist and Anti-LGBT Discourses, Method maps and Cross-Platform Digital Networks. Other opportunities for hands-on experimentation with methods are on the schedule with the following practical labs:

• YouTube Research & Ranking Culture
• Gephi for exploring digital networks
• Trends Studies & Digital Methods for Innovation
• Raw Graphs for data exploratory analysis
• Getting to know a list of data extraction tools (and what to do with it!)
• Getting to know a list of text analysis tools (and what to do with it!)
• Querying App Stores
• Visual Network Analysis
• Images Networks
• Visual social media analysis
• Vision APIs

To participate in the SMART Data Sprint 2020 is necessary to submit an application, until January 13, and pay the attendee fee. All information can be retrieved in the iNova Media Lab's website or the #SMARTdatasprint research blog. Please note that the SMART Data Sprint is also offering partial scholarships.

Also scheduled for the Digital Media Winter Institute 2020, from February 3 to 6, the workshop "Tracking, visualizing and accounting for the networks of (dis-)information with the web crawler Hyphe", taught by Mathieu Jacomy will be promoted. Jacomy is a techno-anthropologist at the University of Aalborg, TANTLab, a former researcher engineer at médialab of Sciences Po Paris and co-founder of Gephi software. The proposal of the workshop is to study and apply the Hyphe webcrawler and understand both information and misinformation issues on the web. Participation in the workshop also requires prior registration by January 20, 2020.

For further information, please access the links: http://smart.inovamedialab.org/2020-digital-methods

http://smart.inovamedialab.org/workshops/2020_networks-of-disinformation

Learn more about the data sprint approach in this video: #SMARTDataSprint