Digital Future Workshops
Analyzing Social Media
Curtin 939 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesGanaele Langlois is an important theorist of web 2.0 who thinks critically about social media and user-generated content, especially emphasizing how it shifts our attention from knowledge content to the conditions that make such content possible. She will lead a workshop on Infoscape Research Lab’s open tools that help analyze blogs, YouTube, Twitter, as well as the web in general.
Chronos, Chronos Again: Composing Media-Rich Timelines with Timeline JS
Lapham 271 3209 North Maryland Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesA Digital Future Workshop Derek Mueller (Written Communication, Eastern Michigan) 9:00 am - 12:15 pm, Lapham 271 This half-day workshop will introduce Timeline JS, a platform designed by VéritéCo and Knight News Innovation Lab for assembling media-rich timelines. Although timelines …
Interrogating Big Data
Curtin 108 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesA Digital Future Workshop Matthew Jockers (English, University of Nebraska) 9:00 am - 4:30 pm (lunch included), Curtin 108 Matthew Jockers’ research and teaching is focused on computational text analysis, specifically an approach he calls “macroanalysis.” He was the co-founder …