This document provides an overview of Tommaso Venturini's background and research. It summarizes that he is a researcher who founded the SP médialab and focuses on digital methods, controversy mapping, and analyzing online debates. The document outlines his educational background in communication sciences and sociology and lists some of his influential publications on developing digital methods to study online controversies and digital trace data. It also provides an outline of his "Digital Methods" module which introduces students to approaches for analyzing and visualizing online data through network analysis and other techniques.
Contropedia, and the question of analytically separating the medium and the m...INRIA - ENS Lyon
My presentation of the Contropedia project at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, at the occasion of the award of the Erasmus prize to the Wikipedia Community.
The conference I gave at the SPRU Freeman Friday Seminars at the University of Sussex (stirring quite a bit of controversy)
In the last few years, our societies have been confronted to a new kind of problems. Our planet – once so vast and unexplored – seems to have shrunk around us constraining our actions with its multiple ecological and economical fragilities. Welcome to the Anthropocene! After centuries spent in trying to rule the world, we suddenly realize how tiny is our kingdom and, as the air fill with CO2, how suffocating is its atmosphere. What’s worse, we find ourselves utterly unprepared to deal with the situation we have created. The more we strive to force the knots we tied, the more they seem to tighten around us. The knots that hold us cannot be slashed, but (and it’s our only hope) they might be untied. The fabric of our natural and social interdependencies is complex, but not impenetrable. And this is where social sciences may help, by hijacking one of the strongest forces of modernization (the proliferation of digital inscriptions) and turning it into a source of understanding. Turning inscriptions into traces, and following them as threads through the maze of collective life, we can try to unfold the complexity of our small world and learn to live with it.
Keynote speech at the Digitale Praxen conference at Frankfurt UniversityINRIA - ENS Lyon
We will discuss four misunderstandings often connected to use of digital traces:
1) the use of a notion of digital traces that is both too narrow and too ambitious;
2) the alternation of oblivion and paranoia on the conditions of digital traces' production;
3) the tendency to confuse digital and automatic;
4) the hope that the digital traces are easily clamped by conventional methods.
We will try to show than when these misunderstandings are avoided, digital methods can renew the vision of social sciences and help them to overcome the classic divide between qualitative and quantitative methods.
A long conference and a workshop that I gave (with Paul Girard) at the University of Coimbra in the framework of the project "The Importance of Being Digital". The theme of the conference was how digital methods help overcome several classic binary oppositions of traditional social sciences.
The presentation I gave at the Digital Methods Initiative Summer School for the launch of the book "Issue Mapping for an Ageing Europe" by Richard Rogers, Natalia Sanchez and Aleksandra Kil.
A conference on how to engage the publics of sociotechnical controversies in the effort of controversy mapping.
I have been invited to give this conference at the 2012 4S conference on Science and Technology Studies (Copenhague - 18/10/12), at the 'Tactics of Issue Mapping' seminar of Goldsmith University (London - 26/10/12), at the Department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam (17/04/13) and at the Ecsite Conference on science centres and museums (Gothenburg - 08/06/13).
Contropedia, and the question of analytically separating the medium and the m...INRIA - ENS Lyon
My presentation of the Contropedia project at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, at the occasion of the award of the Erasmus prize to the Wikipedia Community.
The conference I gave at the SPRU Freeman Friday Seminars at the University of Sussex (stirring quite a bit of controversy)
In the last few years, our societies have been confronted to a new kind of problems. Our planet – once so vast and unexplored – seems to have shrunk around us constraining our actions with its multiple ecological and economical fragilities. Welcome to the Anthropocene! After centuries spent in trying to rule the world, we suddenly realize how tiny is our kingdom and, as the air fill with CO2, how suffocating is its atmosphere. What’s worse, we find ourselves utterly unprepared to deal with the situation we have created. The more we strive to force the knots we tied, the more they seem to tighten around us. The knots that hold us cannot be slashed, but (and it’s our only hope) they might be untied. The fabric of our natural and social interdependencies is complex, but not impenetrable. And this is where social sciences may help, by hijacking one of the strongest forces of modernization (the proliferation of digital inscriptions) and turning it into a source of understanding. Turning inscriptions into traces, and following them as threads through the maze of collective life, we can try to unfold the complexity of our small world and learn to live with it.
Keynote speech at the Digitale Praxen conference at Frankfurt UniversityINRIA - ENS Lyon
We will discuss four misunderstandings often connected to use of digital traces:
1) the use of a notion of digital traces that is both too narrow and too ambitious;
2) the alternation of oblivion and paranoia on the conditions of digital traces' production;
3) the tendency to confuse digital and automatic;
4) the hope that the digital traces are easily clamped by conventional methods.
We will try to show than when these misunderstandings are avoided, digital methods can renew the vision of social sciences and help them to overcome the classic divide between qualitative and quantitative methods.
A long conference and a workshop that I gave (with Paul Girard) at the University of Coimbra in the framework of the project "The Importance of Being Digital". The theme of the conference was how digital methods help overcome several classic binary oppositions of traditional social sciences.
The presentation I gave at the Digital Methods Initiative Summer School for the launch of the book "Issue Mapping for an Ageing Europe" by Richard Rogers, Natalia Sanchez and Aleksandra Kil.
A conference on how to engage the publics of sociotechnical controversies in the effort of controversy mapping.
I have been invited to give this conference at the 2012 4S conference on Science and Technology Studies (Copenhague - 18/10/12), at the 'Tactics of Issue Mapping' seminar of Goldsmith University (London - 26/10/12), at the Department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam (17/04/13) and at the Ecsite Conference on science centres and museums (Gothenburg - 08/06/13).
A conference I gave at the Kings's College doctoral school with Mathieu Jacomy on the notion of social border and the advantage of adding continuity in social research through digital navigation.
Mapping Experiences with Actor Network TheoryLiza Potts
My presentation from ATTW's annual conference. I talk about how we can better design for experiences if we first understand the context in which we are building products and services. This simple mapping system helps visualize these contexts.
Want more? Check out my book on social media and disaster, filled with more information on how to map networks using actor-network theory http://www.amazon.com/dp/0415817412
The Web and its Publics (by Tommaso Venturini & Jean-Philippe Cointet)medialabSciencesPo
Presentation given by Tommaso Venturini and Jean-Philippe Cointet at the seminar of the research group "Ethique, Technologies, Organisations, Société (ETOS)" of the Institut TELECOM / TEM Research and the Centre de recherche Sens, Ethique, Société (CERSES), and the New York University / NYU in France.
What Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and digital methods can do for data journalis...Liliana Bounegru
Slides from a talk I gave at the University of Ghent on 21 October 2014 about how Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and digital methods can be used to study and inform data journalism.
What do we mean by Smarter? The presentation argues that the "smartness" of "smart systems" is not just a product of technology, but that systems can be smart by engaging people and providing a means of integrating their knowledge and expertise. Provides an array of examples, and a close look at Cyclopath, a geowiki that supports the finding of bike-friendly routes around a city.
An Epistemological Experiment: Issue Mapping, Data Journalism and the Public ...Jonathan Gray
Slides for talk at Utrecht Data School, Utrecht University, 27th October 2014. Further details at: http://jonathangray.org/2014/10/22/digital-methods-data-journalism-utrecht/
Mapping Issues with the Web: An Introduction to Digital MethodsJonathan Gray
Slides from talk on "Mapping Issues with the Web: An Introduction to Digital Methods" at Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University, 23rd September 2014. Further details at: http://jonathangray.org/2014/09/10/mapping-issues-with-web-columbia/
A conference I gave at the Kings's College doctoral school with Mathieu Jacomy on the notion of social border and the advantage of adding continuity in social research through digital navigation.
Mapping Experiences with Actor Network TheoryLiza Potts
My presentation from ATTW's annual conference. I talk about how we can better design for experiences if we first understand the context in which we are building products and services. This simple mapping system helps visualize these contexts.
Want more? Check out my book on social media and disaster, filled with more information on how to map networks using actor-network theory http://www.amazon.com/dp/0415817412
The Web and its Publics (by Tommaso Venturini & Jean-Philippe Cointet)medialabSciencesPo
Presentation given by Tommaso Venturini and Jean-Philippe Cointet at the seminar of the research group "Ethique, Technologies, Organisations, Société (ETOS)" of the Institut TELECOM / TEM Research and the Centre de recherche Sens, Ethique, Société (CERSES), and the New York University / NYU in France.
What Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and digital methods can do for data journalis...Liliana Bounegru
Slides from a talk I gave at the University of Ghent on 21 October 2014 about how Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and digital methods can be used to study and inform data journalism.
What do we mean by Smarter? The presentation argues that the "smartness" of "smart systems" is not just a product of technology, but that systems can be smart by engaging people and providing a means of integrating their knowledge and expertise. Provides an array of examples, and a close look at Cyclopath, a geowiki that supports the finding of bike-friendly routes around a city.
An Epistemological Experiment: Issue Mapping, Data Journalism and the Public ...Jonathan Gray
Slides for talk at Utrecht Data School, Utrecht University, 27th October 2014. Further details at: http://jonathangray.org/2014/10/22/digital-methods-data-journalism-utrecht/
Mapping Issues with the Web: An Introduction to Digital MethodsJonathan Gray
Slides from talk on "Mapping Issues with the Web: An Introduction to Digital Methods" at Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University, 23rd September 2014. Further details at: http://jonathangray.org/2014/09/10/mapping-issues-with-web-columbia/
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SY06: MAKER CULTURES , CODE AND PUBLICNESS
EXPLORING (POST --)DIGITAL SPHERES AND PRACTICES
Dan Verständig | Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg/Germany
‘Going Public‘? Ethnography in Education and Social Work and Its Publics
October 31st - November 2nd, 2019 Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Germany
Presentation from November 1st, 2019.
Seminar at CSAIL, MIT, Cambridge, Mass. Date: Friday October 30, 2015. Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Location: D463 (Star)
Abstract:
Today we are witnessing several shifts in scholarly practice, in and across multiple disciplines, as researchers embrace digital techniques to tackle established research questions in new ways and new questions afforded by digital and digitized collections, approaches, and technologies. Pervasive adoption of technology, coupled with the co-creation of new social processes, has created a new and complex space for scholarship where citizens both generate and analyse data as they interact at the intersection of the physical and digital. Drawing on a background in distributed computing, and adopting the lens of Social Machines, this talk discusses current activity in digital scholarship, framing it in its interdisciplinary settings.
Bio:
David De Roure is Professor of e-Research at University of Oxford, Director of the Oxford e-Research Centre, and chairs Oxford’s Digital Humanities research programme. He previously directed the Digital Social Research programme for the UK Economic and Social Research Council, and serves as a strategic advisor in new forms of data and realtime analytics. Trained in electronics and computer science, his career has involved interdisciplinary collaborations in chemistry, astrophysics, bioinformatics, social computing, digital libraries, and sensor networks. His personal research is in Computational Musicology, Web Science, and Internet of Things. He is a frequent speaker and writer on digital research and the future of scholarly communications. URL: http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/people/dder
This is a citizen science overview particularly aimed at graduate students enrolled in a new course at Arizona State University, aptly titled "Citizen Science." The author of this presentation, and course instructor, Darlene Cavalier, will talk students through its nuances and intersections with science, technology, and society.
A conference I gave at the Amsterdam Digital Methods Summer School. It presents Heatgraph a new tool of the médialab using the example of the article "Intangible Cultural Heritage Webs: comparing national networks with digital methods".
A workshop hosted by the South African Journal of Science aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers with little or no experience in writing and publishing journal articles.
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This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
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A review of the growth of the Israel Genealogy Research Association Database Collection for the last 12 months. Our collection is now passed the 3 million mark and still growing. See which archives have contributed the most. See the different types of records we have, and which years have had records added. You can also see what we have for the future.
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5. Tommaso Venturini
Training
• University of Bologna Communication Sciences (Umberto Eco)
• Web design and web development & Virtual communities
• Ph.D. in Society of Information at Milano Bicocca and Paris I
Sorbonne
• MACOSPOL and controversy mapping
Research
• Founder and coordinator of the SP médialab (with Bruno Latour)
• Principal investigator
- EMAPS (EU FP7 on controversy mapping)
- MEDEA (ANR on climate adaptation debate)
- Contropedia (EINS on Wikipedia versioning)
• Lecturer in “Digital Methods” at King’s College London
6. Selected Publications
Venturini, T., Jensen, P., & Latour, B. (2015). Fill in the Gap: A New Alliance for Social and Natural Sciences.
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 18(2), 11.
Venturini, T., Cardon, D., & Cointet, J.-P. (2015). Méthodes digitales: Approches quali/quanti des données
numériques - Curation and Presentation of the Special Issue. Réseaux, 188, 9.
Venturini, T. (2010). Diving in magma: how to explore controversies with actor-network theory. Public
Understanding of Science, 19(3), 258–273. Citations 185.
Venturini, T. (2012). Building on faults: how to represent controversies with digital methods. Public
Understanding of Science, 21(7), 796 – 812. Citations 85.
Venturini, T., Ricci, D., Mauri, M., Kimbell, L., & Meunier, A. (2015). Designing Controversies and their Publics.
Design Issues, 31(3).
Latour, B., Jensen, P., Venturini, T., Grauwin, S., & Boullier, D. (2012). “The whole is always smaller than its
parts”: a digital test of Gabriel Tardes’ monads. The British Journal of Sociology, 63(4), 590–615. Citations 169.
Jacomy, M., Venturini, T., Heymann, S., & Bastian, M. (2014). ForceAtlas2, a Continuous Graph Layout
Algorithm for Handy Network Visualization Designed for the Gephi Software. PloS One, 9(6). Citations 161.
Venturini, T., Baya Laffite, N., Cointet, J.-P., Gray, I., Zabban, V., & De Pryck, K. (2014). Three maps and three
misunderstandings: A digital mapping of climate diplomacy. Big Data & Society, 1(2).
Borra, E., Weltevrede, E., Ciuccarelli, P., Kaltenbrunner, A., Laniado, D., … Venturini, T. (2014). Contropedia - the
analysis and visualization of controversies in Wikipedia articles. In OpenSym 2014 Proceedings.
8. Module’s Outline
1. Introduction (avoiding a few misunderstandings)
2. Beyond qualitative and quantitative methods
3. The art of querying
4. The art of triangulating
5. Meet the network
6. Hands on networks
7. Visual network analysis
8. Extracting networks
9. The politics of digital methods
10. Conclusion and summary
9. 4 Misunderstanding
1. Digital is not digitized
2. Tracing is not neutral
3. Size is not everything
4. Digital is not automatic
10. 1. Digital is not digitized
Digitized Ethnography
(virtual reality late ‘80-early ‘90)
Rheingold, H. (1993). The virtual
community: Homesteading on the
electronic frontier.
Negroponte, N. (1995). Being
digital.
Turkle, S. (1995). Life on the Screen.
Identity in the Age of the Internet.
Barlow, J.P. (1996). A Declaration of
the Independence of Cyberspace
Digitized Statistics
(www.limesurvey.org)
11. 1. Digital is not digitized
The End of the Virtual
(Inaugural Speech, New Media & Digital Culture Chair, University of Amsterdam 8 May 2009)
I will strive to shift the attention from the opportunities afforded by
transforming ink into bits, and instead inquire into how research with the
Internet... How may one learn from how online devices (e.g., engines and
recommendation systems) make use of the objects, and how may such uses be
repurposed for social and cultural research? (p. 1)
The conceptual point of departure for the research program is the recognition
that the Internet is not only an object of study, but also a source (p. 3)
Collecting it and analyzing it for social and cultural research requires not only
a new outlook about the Internet, but method too to ground findings (p. 20)
12. 2. Tracing is not neutral
Lous Marin(2001)
On Representation
Stanford University Press
14. 2. Tracing is not neutral
Jude Umeh (2007). The World Beyond Digital Rights Management
Tracing collective phenomena is not cheaper
The price is paid by someone else
15. 2. Tracing is not neutral
Askitas, N., & Zimmermann, K. (2011). Health and Well-Being in the Crisis. IZA Discussion Paper
Digital traces are second-handed
16. 2. Tracing is not neutral
Digital traces are second-handed
17. 2. Tracing is not neutral
Digital traces are second-handed
18. 3. Size is not everything
What happened on the September 25 2005?
19. 3. Size is not everything
What happened on the September 25 2005?
20. 3. Size is not everything
A pseudo-exhaustive
map of the Web
http://internet-map.net
21. 3. Size is not everything
A good
map of the Web
http://www.lemonde.fr/politique/visuel/2012/0
2/02/cartographie-de-la-blogosphere-politique-
en-2012_1635269_823448.html
34. On digital traceability
Venturini, Tommaso, and Bruno Latour. 2010.
“The Social Fabric: Digital Traces and Quali-Quantitative Methods”
in Proceedings of Future En Seine 2009. Paris, pp. 87–101
Venturini, Tommaso. 2012.
“Building on Faults: How to Represent Controversies with Digital Methods”
in Public Understanding of Science 21(7):796–812.
Venturini, Tommaso et al. 2014.
“Three Maps and Three Misunderstandings: A Digital Mapping of Climate Diplomacy”
in Big Data & Society 1(2).