This document summarizes an introduction to digital methods given by Liliana Bounegru and Jonathan Gray. It discusses 5 stories that use digital methods to analyze topics related to climate change negotiations, the rise of far-right groups in Europe, health worker migration, responses to Wikileaks cables, and the influence of climate change skeptics. It also discusses 5 innovations in digital methods including using social media and the web as data, and using search engines as research tools. The document provides examples of findings from these different studies and tools used in digital methods like Netvizz and TCAT.
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/
Doing Social and Political Research in a Digital Age: An Introduction to Digi...Liliana Bounegru
Lecture given at the National Center of Competence in Research: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century, 5 November 2015, Zürich University, Zürich, Switzerland
Twitris in Action - a review of its many applications Amit Sheth
Twitris is a System for Collective Social Intelligence. It has been used in a large number of and many types (disaster coordination, banding, epidemiology, public health, election/polical, social movement) of applications - often in real-time. This presentation gives a bird-eye review of some of these applications with links to explore them further.
OpenStreetMap exists with what Gabriella Coleman calls a collaborative ethical temperament--one that values transparency, accessibility, and openness for the purpose of participation. Vibrant and open dialogue is key in encouraging and facilitating this participation. But are the doors really open to anyone?
I investigate the structure and demographics of the OpenStreetMap community. Framed by established research on OpenStreetMap, specifically and open source, in general, I establish why a lack of gender and racial diversity poses significant challenges for the sustainability of our work. I then introduce OpenThreads, a toolset for the rhetorical analysis of open mailing lists. This research can serve as a guide for building future tools of interaction on our mailing lists and beyond. Scandalous photos included.
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/
Doing Social and Political Research in a Digital Age: An Introduction to Digi...Liliana Bounegru
Lecture given at the National Center of Competence in Research: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century, 5 November 2015, Zürich University, Zürich, Switzerland
Twitris in Action - a review of its many applications Amit Sheth
Twitris is a System for Collective Social Intelligence. It has been used in a large number of and many types (disaster coordination, banding, epidemiology, public health, election/polical, social movement) of applications - often in real-time. This presentation gives a bird-eye review of some of these applications with links to explore them further.
OpenStreetMap exists with what Gabriella Coleman calls a collaborative ethical temperament--one that values transparency, accessibility, and openness for the purpose of participation. Vibrant and open dialogue is key in encouraging and facilitating this participation. But are the doors really open to anyone?
I investigate the structure and demographics of the OpenStreetMap community. Framed by established research on OpenStreetMap, specifically and open source, in general, I establish why a lack of gender and racial diversity poses significant challenges for the sustainability of our work. I then introduce OpenThreads, a toolset for the rhetorical analysis of open mailing lists. This research can serve as a guide for building future tools of interaction on our mailing lists and beyond. Scandalous photos included.
Presentation given to MICRA (Manchester Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Research on Ageing) by David Sinclair, Head of Policy and Research at the International Longevity Centre - UK. David argues that Universities must get better at engaging with and influencing policy.
Transforming Social Big Data into Timely Decisions and Actions for Crisis Mi...Amit Sheth
Keynote @ Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness (SMERP)
Co-located with: The Web Conference 2018 (formerly WWW)
Lyon, France. 23 April 2018
Abstract:
Crises are imposing massive costs to economies worldwide. Natural disasters caused record $306 billion in damage to the U.S. in 2017! Real-time gathering of relevant data through ubiquitous presence of mobile technologies and the ability to disseminate them through social media has forever changed how disaster and health crisis monitoring and response are now carried out. Both tradition crisis response organization as well as temporary, informal, self-organized and community-based organizations have come to increasingly rely on social media. Furthermore, ability to collect, repurpose and reuse data from past events is helping with preparedness and planning for future events.
In this talk, I will review our extensive experience on (a) interactions with variety of stakeholders involved in emergency response at city, county, country and international levels, (b) research on real-time social media analysis spanning spatio-temporal-thematic; people-content-network; linguistic-sentiment-emotion-intent analysis dimensions, (c) development and use of crisis response specific tools (location identification, demand-supply match) and the comprehensive Twitris semantic social intelligence system (which is also commercialized as Cognovi Labs), and (d) a variety of real-world evaluations and real-time uses (e.g., supplying data for Google Crisis map during Uttarakhand Floods, rescue during Kashmir Floods, neighborhood image map during Chennai Floods, providing information to FEMA during Oklahoma tornados), spread of disease and epidemiology (e.g., Zika spread), metro-level multi-agency disaster preparedness exercise, etc.
https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/kripa/smerp2018/SMERP-at-Web2018-keynote.pdf
Black Twitter is much more than a phenomenon, it is rooted community of users that prides itself cultural identity. This identity creates a following within in this social network that people who identify as black can come to together to discuss issues of the black community. Through the use of hashtags, emojis, and other content that pertains to the black community, it has allowed these users to establish a strong social media base.
This presentation provides you with statistics and facts about Facebook and Instagram to convey the message of how powerful these platforms are. The slides conclude by showing you some of the social good in social media.
Fake News, Algorithmic Accountability and the Role of Data Journalism in the ...Liliana Bounegru
Talk given at the workshop 'How Can Public Interest Journalism Hold Algorithms to Account?' at the University of Cambridge on 23 March 2017.
More about the talk can be found here: http://lilianabounegru.org/2017/03/27/fake-news-algorithmic-accountability-data-journalism-post-truth-university-of-cambridge/
More about the workshop can be found here: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27130
Invited talk at the Data.Journalism! Conference, Vienna, 14 June 2012, PICNIC Festival, Amsterdam, 16 September 2012 and the Mozilla Festival in London, 9 November 2012.
Sourcing Practices in Data Journalism at The New York Times, The Guardian and...Liliana Bounegru
Talk at the Right to Information and Transparency in the Digital Age: Policy, Tools and Practices Conference, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University, 12 March 2013.
A Field Guide to Fake News Launch at the International Journalism Festival 2017Liliana Bounegru
Slides from a presentation of the Field Guide to Fake News given by myself, Jonathan Gray, Michele Mauri and Angeles Briones at the launch event which took place on 7 April 2017 at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia.
More about the launch event can be found here: http://lilianabounegru.org/2017/04/07/a-field-guide-to-fake-news-launch-international-journalism-festival-perugia/
The field guide can be accessed at: https://fakenews.publicdatalab.org/
Presentation given to MICRA (Manchester Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Research on Ageing) by David Sinclair, Head of Policy and Research at the International Longevity Centre - UK. David argues that Universities must get better at engaging with and influencing policy.
Transforming Social Big Data into Timely Decisions and Actions for Crisis Mi...Amit Sheth
Keynote @ Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness (SMERP)
Co-located with: The Web Conference 2018 (formerly WWW)
Lyon, France. 23 April 2018
Abstract:
Crises are imposing massive costs to economies worldwide. Natural disasters caused record $306 billion in damage to the U.S. in 2017! Real-time gathering of relevant data through ubiquitous presence of mobile technologies and the ability to disseminate them through social media has forever changed how disaster and health crisis monitoring and response are now carried out. Both tradition crisis response organization as well as temporary, informal, self-organized and community-based organizations have come to increasingly rely on social media. Furthermore, ability to collect, repurpose and reuse data from past events is helping with preparedness and planning for future events.
In this talk, I will review our extensive experience on (a) interactions with variety of stakeholders involved in emergency response at city, county, country and international levels, (b) research on real-time social media analysis spanning spatio-temporal-thematic; people-content-network; linguistic-sentiment-emotion-intent analysis dimensions, (c) development and use of crisis response specific tools (location identification, demand-supply match) and the comprehensive Twitris semantic social intelligence system (which is also commercialized as Cognovi Labs), and (d) a variety of real-world evaluations and real-time uses (e.g., supplying data for Google Crisis map during Uttarakhand Floods, rescue during Kashmir Floods, neighborhood image map during Chennai Floods, providing information to FEMA during Oklahoma tornados), spread of disease and epidemiology (e.g., Zika spread), metro-level multi-agency disaster preparedness exercise, etc.
https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/kripa/smerp2018/SMERP-at-Web2018-keynote.pdf
Black Twitter is much more than a phenomenon, it is rooted community of users that prides itself cultural identity. This identity creates a following within in this social network that people who identify as black can come to together to discuss issues of the black community. Through the use of hashtags, emojis, and other content that pertains to the black community, it has allowed these users to establish a strong social media base.
This presentation provides you with statistics and facts about Facebook and Instagram to convey the message of how powerful these platforms are. The slides conclude by showing you some of the social good in social media.
Fake News, Algorithmic Accountability and the Role of Data Journalism in the ...Liliana Bounegru
Talk given at the workshop 'How Can Public Interest Journalism Hold Algorithms to Account?' at the University of Cambridge on 23 March 2017.
More about the talk can be found here: http://lilianabounegru.org/2017/03/27/fake-news-algorithmic-accountability-data-journalism-post-truth-university-of-cambridge/
More about the workshop can be found here: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27130
Invited talk at the Data.Journalism! Conference, Vienna, 14 June 2012, PICNIC Festival, Amsterdam, 16 September 2012 and the Mozilla Festival in London, 9 November 2012.
Sourcing Practices in Data Journalism at The New York Times, The Guardian and...Liliana Bounegru
Talk at the Right to Information and Transparency in the Digital Age: Policy, Tools and Practices Conference, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University, 12 March 2013.
A Field Guide to Fake News Launch at the International Journalism Festival 2017Liliana Bounegru
Slides from a presentation of the Field Guide to Fake News given by myself, Jonathan Gray, Michele Mauri and Angeles Briones at the launch event which took place on 7 April 2017 at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia.
More about the launch event can be found here: http://lilianabounegru.org/2017/04/07/a-field-guide-to-fake-news-launch-international-journalism-festival-perugia/
The field guide can be accessed at: https://fakenews.publicdatalab.org/
Journalism in an Age of Big Data: What It Is, Why It Matters and Where to StartLiliana Bounegru
Invited lecture and workshop at the European University Institute Boot Camp for Journalists: Tools for Better Reporting, Florence, Italy, 10 June 2014.
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.
Social media has emerged as a powerful communication channel to promote actions and raise social awareness. Initiatives through social media are being driven by NGOs to increase the scope and effectiveness of their campaigns. In this paper, we describe the DaTactic2 campaign, which is both an offline and online initiative supported by Oxfam Intermón devised to gather activists and NGOs practitioners and create awareness on the importance of the 2014 European Parliament election. We provide details regarding the background of the campaign, as well as the objectives, the strategies that have been implemented and an empirical evaluation of its performance through an analysis of the impact on Twitter. Our findings show the effectiveness of bringing together relevant actors in an offline event and the high value of creating multimedia content in order to increase the scope and virality of the campaign.
Doing Digital Methods: Some Recent Highlights from Winter and Summer SchoolsLiliana Bounegru
Talk given at the Digital Methods Winter School 2017 at the University of Amsterdam. It presents a selection of projects developed at the 2016 Digital Methods Winter and Summer Schools (www.digitalmethods.net).
This is an invited talk I presented at the University of Zurich, speakers' series 2.10.2017. The presentation is based on the following paper: Brandtzaeg, P. B., & Følstad, A. (2017). Trust and distrust in online fact-checking services. Communications of the ACM. 60(9): 65-71
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.
Tool : Opinion Space
Typical Actions : Opinion mapping software collect and visualise users opinions on important issues and polocies
(rate five proposition on the chosen topic and type initial response to a discussion question)
Show in a graphical "Map" where user's opinions of other participants.
Display patterns, trends, and insights employ the wisdom of crowds to identify the most insightful ideas.
Examples : Used by US state Depart to engage global online audiences on a variety of foreign policy issues.
Section 1: Tool Background
Who designed or developed the tool?
What is the purpose of the tool?
When was the tool designed or developed?
Where was the tool designed or developed?
Why was the tool designed or developed?
Section 2: Tool Specifications
Functional capabilities of the tool. (Key features of the tool)
Technical requirements for the tool.
How is/was the tool implemented?
Section 3: Tool Visualizations:
Find an illustration or work flow of the tool.
Describe the illustration or work flow of the tool.
Section 4: Tool Achievements/Limitations
Discuss the advantages of the tool.
Discuss the disadvantages of the tool.
Section 5: Based on research, does the tool achieve the original purpose of the creator/designer?
Discuss your findings
Your research paper should be at least 9 pages (2400 words), double-spaced, have at least 8 APA references, and typed in an easy-to-read font in MS Word (other word processors are fine to use but save it in a MS Word format). Your cover page should contain the following: Title, Team's name, University's name, Course name, Course number, Professor's name, and Date.
Tambouris, E., Liotas, N., & Tarabanis, K. (2007). A Framework for Assessing eParticipation Projects and Tools. 2007 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'07), Waikoloa, HI, 2007, pp. 90-90. doi: 10.1109/HICSS.2007.13
SURNAME 3
Climate Change
Student’s Name
Instructor’s Name
Institutional Affiliation
14th. September 2019
Academic Sources on Climate Change
Farrell, Justin. "Corporate funding and ideological polarization about climate change." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113.1 (2016): 92-97.
Nerem, R. S., Beckley, B. D., Fasullo, J. T., Hamlington, B. D., Masters, D., & Mitchum, G. T. (2018). Climate-change–driven accelerated sea-level rise detected in the altimeter era. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(9), 2022-2025.
Fuzzi, S., Baltensperger, U., Carslaw, K., Decesari, S., Denier van der Gon, H., Facchini, M. C., ... & Nemitz, E. (2015). Particulate matter, air quality and climate: lessons learned and future needs. Atmospheric chemistry and physics, 15(14), 8217-8299.
Urry, John. “Climate change and society”. In Why the social sciences matter (pp. 45-59). Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2015 45-59.
Holland, G., & Bruyère, C. L. (2014). Recent intense hurricane response to global climate change. Climate Dynamics ...
Journalists today are faced with an overwhelming abundance of data – from large collections of leaked documents, to public databases about lobbying or government spending, to ‘big data’ from social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. To stay relevant to society journalists are learning to process this data and separate signal from noise in order to provide valuable insights to their readers. This talk will address questions like: What is the potential of data journalism? Why is it relevant to society? And how can you get started?
The World Ethical Data Forum Brochure to join us in London July 1–3, 2020 This leading event for impartial and balanced exploration of urgent ethical and practical questions around the use and future of data.
Data Activism: data as rhetoric, data as powerSpeck&Tech
ABSTRACT: Contrary to popular beliefs that depict data as truthful or objective, a data activist navigates the data-sphere from an opposite worldview: data is never neutral, and data visualization is inevitably rhetorical. But don’t worry: this is a feature, not a bug. This talk will focus on the many ways in which data can be used for activism, with a particular focus on data-inspired housing rights initiatives like Inside Airbnb and OCIO Venezia, and the works by the information design studio Sheldon.studio.
BIO: Alice Corona is a partner and data journalist at Sheldon.studio, Board Member at Inside Airbnb, and Data activist at OCIO Venezia.
In this talk is offer three challenges for a critical data journalism practice drawing on the insights and examples from The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice: https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462989511/the-data-journalism-handbook. The talk is a keynote given at the Digital Methods Initiative Summer School at the University of Amsterdam on 5 July 2021.
Talk on fake news as digital culture given at the Institute for Policy Research symposium on Politics, Fake News and the Post-Truth Era, University of Bath, 14 September 2017.
More about the talk here: http://lilianabounegru.org/2017/09/23/fake-news-in-digital-culture-at-2017-institute-for-policy-research-symposium/
More about the event here: http://www.bath.ac.uk/events/politics-fake-news-and-the-post-truth-era/
Data Infrastructure Literacy: Reshaping Practices of Measurement, Monitoring ...Liliana Bounegru
Conference paper given at 4S/EASST Conference Barcelona 2016, Spain, 2 September 2016, with Jonathan Gray and Carolin Gerlitz. http://www.sts2016bcn.org/
Paper given at the Conference of the Digital Methods Winter School, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, 14 January 2016, with Jonathan Gray and Carolin Gerlitz.
What Can Data Journalists and Digital Researchers Learn from Each Other?Liliana Bounegru
Talk given with Jonathan Gray at the Digital Humanities + Data Journalism Symposium at the University of Miami on 30 September 2016. http://dhdj.com.miami.edu/
Data Journalism and the Remaking of Data InfrastructuresLiliana Bounegru
Talk given at the “Evidence and the Politics of Policymaking” Conference, University of Bath, 14th September 2016, on the basis of my PhD research at the University of Groningen and University of Ghent.
http://www.bath.ac.uk/ipr/events/news-0230.html.
GitHub as Transparency Device in Data Journalism, Open Data and Data ActivismLiliana Bounegru
Slides from presentation of research agenda around uses of GitHub in journalism at the Digital Methods Summer School 2015. More details here: http://lilianabounegru.org/2015/07/08/github-as-transparency-device-in-data-journalism-open-data-and-data-activism/
These slides are by Steve Doig, journalism professor at ASU's Cronkite School and Pulitzer-winning journalist. The slides are from Doig's workshop Excel for Journalists, part of the School of Data Journalism 2013 at the International Journalism Festival, Perugia.
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
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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Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
How libraries can support authors with open access requirements for UKRI fund...
Mapping Issues with the Web: An Introduction to Digital Methods
1. mapping issues with the web:
an introduction to digital
methods
23rd September 2014, Columbia University
Liliana Bounegru | lilianabounegru.org | @bb_liliana"
Jonathan Gray | jonathangray.org | @jwyg
2. 15 things you always
wanted to know about
digital methods but
were afraid to ask
11. – Leo Hickman, “Can carbon offsetting ever be truly green?”,
The Guardian, 3rd September 2008.
“In what seems like a flash, the climate-change
debate has lurched from talk of mitigation to
one of adaptation.”
12. The Atlantic (2014) “The UN's New Focus: Surviving, Not Stopping, Climate Change”.
Available at: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/04/the-uns-new-focus-surviving-not-
stopping-climate-change/359929/
14. Can the shift from mitigation to adaptation be
observed in the UNFCCC negotiations?
15. Venturini, T., Baya-laffite, N., Cointet, J., Gray, I., Zabban, V., & De Pryck, K. (2014) “Three Maps and Three
Misunderstandings : A Digital Mapping of Climate Diplomacy.” Big Data and Society, 2014, 1(1).
Available at: http://medialab.sciences-po.fr/publications/misunderstandings/
16. Findings"
Mitigation is more dominant - the majority of
the clusters are about mitigation.
Mitigation is much more diverse and
distributed.
Adaptation is a much more tightly clustered
topic and highly connected to other topics.
17. Venturini, T., Baya-laffite, N., Cointet, J., Gray, I., Zabban, V., & De Pryck, K. (2014) “Three Maps and Three
Misunderstandings : A Digital Mapping of Climate Diplomacy.” Big Data and Society, 2014, 1(1).
Available at: http://medialab.sciences-po.fr/publications/misunderstandings/
18. Venturini, T., Baya-laffite, N., Cointet, J., Gray, I., Zabban, V., & De Pryck, K. (2014) “Three Maps and Three
Misunderstandings : A Digital Mapping of Climate Diplomacy.” Big Data and Society, 2014, 1(1).
Available at: http://medialab.sciences-po.fr/publications/misunderstandings/
19. Findings"
Both adaptation and mitigation are highly
visible in negotiations.
Adaptation financing has been central to
climate negotiations from the outset.
There is a noticeable shift towards adaptation
during the period we examined.
20. Venturini, T., Baya-laffite, N., Cointet, J., Gray, I., Zabban, V., & De Pryck, K. (2014) “Three Maps and Three
Misunderstandings : A Digital Mapping of Climate Diplomacy.” Big Data and Society, 2014, 1(1).
Available at: http://medialab.sciences-po.fr/publications/misunderstandings/
21. Which countries intervene most in UN climate
negotiations and how do these interventions
evolve over time?
23. The New York Times (2014) “Who’s at the Climate Talks, and What Do They Seek?”.
Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/12/05/world/climate-graphic-players.html
25. Graphing the number of interventions in the
negotiations of the 21 most active countries
based on daily summaries from the Earth
Negotiations Bulletin (ENB)
26. Venturini, T., Baya-laffite, N., Cointet, J., Gray, I., Zabban, V., & De Pryck, K. (2014) “Three Maps and Three
Misunderstandings : A Digital Mapping of Climate Diplomacy.” Big Data and Society, 2014, 1(1).
Available at: http://medialab.sciences-po.fr/publications/misunderstandings/
27. Findings"
Notable stability in presence and intervention
of countries.
Notable exceptions include Bolivia and
Philippines who are becoming more prominent
in recent negotiations.
Most active are China (representing G77),
United States and Europe.
Countries tend to be more active when they
host the negotiations.
28. Venturini, T., Baya-laffite, N., Cointet, J., Gray, I., Zabban, V., & De Pryck, K. (2014) “Three Maps and Three
Misunderstandings : A Digital Mapping of Climate Diplomacy.” Big Data and Society, 2014, 1(1).
Available at: http://medialab.sciences-po.fr/publications/misunderstandings/
29. Wired Italia (2014) “Cambiamenti del clima: 20 anni di conferenze”. March 2014. No. 60.
30. Wired Italia (2014) “Cambiamenti del clima: 20 anni di conferenze”. March 2014. No. 60.
31. Wired Italia (2014) “Cambiamenti del clima: 20 anni di conferenze”. March 2014. No. 60.
32. Wired Italia (2014) “Beautiful Information, in mostra le migliori infografiche di Wired”.
Available at: http://www.wired.it/attualita/media/2014/03/04/beautiful-information-infografiche-wired/
33. Wired Italia (2014) “Beautiful Information, in mostra le migliori infografiche di Wired”.
Available at: http://www.wired.it/attualita/media/2014/03/04/beautiful-information-infografiche-wired/
35. The Guardian (2013) “The rise of far right parties across Europe is a chilling echo of the 1930s”.
Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/15/far-right-threat-europe-integration
36. Huffington Post (2014) “Sudden Rise of Far Right Groups in EU Parliament Rings Alarm Bells Across
Europe”. Available at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elinadav-heymann/sudden-rise-of-far-right-
_b_5512961.html
37. New York Times (2014) “Populist Party Gaining Muscle to Push Britain to the Right”.
Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/08/world/europe/populist-party-gaining-muscle-to-push-
britain-to-the-right.html
38. What are the recruitment methods
of far right groups?
43. 1. List of links per country
2. Analyse links between them
3. Study issues and actors
44. Findings
New issues (e.g. environment, anti-
globalisation and rights), principles and
recruitment techniques.
Counter-measures are outdated.
!
Islamophobia is located primarily in north.
46. Rogers, R. et al (2013) “Right-Wing Formations in Europe and Their Counter-Measures: An Online
Mapping”. Digital Methods Initiative. https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/RightWingPopulismStudy
49. Rogers, R. et al (2013) “Right-Wing Formations in Europe and Their Counter-Measures: An Online
Mapping”. Digital Methods Initiative. https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/RightWingPopulismStudy
53. Rogers, R. et al (2013) “Right-Wing Formations in Europe and Their Counter-Measures: An Online
Mapping”. Digital Methods Initiative. https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/RightWingPopulismStudy
Rogers, R. et al (2013) “Right-Wing Formations in Europe and Their Counter-Measures: An Online
Mapping”. Digital Methods Initiative. https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/RightWingPopulismStudy
56. The Guardian (2012) “Far-right anti-Muslim network on rise globally as Breivik trial opens”.
Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/14/breivik-trial-norway-mass-murderer
57. Hope Not Hate (2012) “Counter-Jihad Report”.
Available at: http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/counter-jihad/
59. Digital Methods Initiative. “Counter-Jihadist Networks: Mapping
the Connections Between Facebook Groups in Europe.”
60. Digital Methods Initiative. “Counter-Jihadist Networks: Mapping
the Connections Between Facebook Groups in Europe.”
61. Findings
Facebook is an important medium for extremist
groups.
!
Three main clusters based on geographical
proximity.
!
European Counter-Jihadist groups are networked
and transnational.
62. Digital Methods Initiative. “Counter-Jihadist Networks: Mapping
the Connections Between Facebook Groups in Europe.”
68. Mills et al (2008). “Should active recruitment of health workers from "
sub-Saharan Africa be viewed as a crime?”. Lancet 2008; 371: 685–88.
69. The Guardian (2011). “Assessing the cause and effect of health worker migration”.!
Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/global-health-workers/health-workers-move-from-area-of-origin
70. – Sue George, “Assessing the cause and effect of health
worker migration”, The Guardian, 18th January 2011.
“Health worker migration is a big issue – in
2005, it was widely reported that there were
more Malawian doctors in Manchester than
Malawi. Now, it seems, there are more Ethiopian
doctors in Chicago than in Ethiopia.”
71. – Sue George, “Assessing the cause and effect of health
worker migration”, The Guardian, 18th January 2011.
“[a 2010 global code of practice] sets out
guiding principles and voluntary international
standards for recruitment of health workers, to
increase the consistency of national policies
and discourage unethical practices”
72. Which actors in the UK health sector are
talking about the migration of health workers?
73. Rogers, R., Sanchez Querubin, N. & Kril, A. (2015) Ageing Places: A Digital Issue Mapping.
Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press.
74. Findings for UK"
Notable difference between sectors.
Most vocal are government and academia.
Less discussion amongst healthcare NGOs.
Next to no discussion in private sector.
76. Findings for Poland"
!
Demand for Polish care workers greater
outside country than within.
!
Based on recruitment postings, Poland looks
to be susceptible to care drain.
77. Rogers, R., Sanchez Querubin, N. & Kril, A. (2015) Ageing Places: A Digital Issue Mapping.
Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press.
79. The Guardian (2010) “US embassy cables leak sparks global diplomatic crisis”. Available at:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/28/us-embassy-cable-leak-diplomacy-crisis
80. Cables from 274 embassies, consulates and
diplomatic missions.
86. BBC News (2007) “BBC switches off climate special”. Available at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6979596.stm
87. – Richard Rogers, Digital Methods
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013), pp.7-8
“The skeptics were increasingly at the top of the
news. […] Are the skeptics at the top of the
web too?”
89. Climate Skeptics"
!
S. Fred Singer
Robert Balling
Sallie Baliunas
Patrick Michaels
Richard Lindzen
Steven Milloy
Timothy Ball
Paul Driessen
Willie Soon
Sherwood B. Idso
Frederick Seitz
90. Climate Skeptic Organisations"
!
American Enterprise Institute
American Legislative Exchange Council
Center for Science and Public Policy
Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Frontiers of Freedom
Marshall Institute
Heartland Institute
Tech Central Station
97. “The social is visible only by the traces it leaves..”
– Bruno Latour, Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network
Theory. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 8
98. ““The interest of electronic media lies in the fact
that every interaction that passes through them
leaves traces..”
– Bruno Latour & Tommaso Venturini, “The Social Fabric:
Digital Traces and Quali-quantitative Methods”, p. 6
99. Web and social media data
are digital traces of the social.
101. Digital methods are “methods of the medium”
designed to repurpose digital objects such as
tags, likes, links and hashtags to study issues.
102. Some tools that organise web and
social media for research…
103. “Netvizz is a tool that extracts data from
different sections of the Facebook platform
(personal profile, groups, pages) for research
purposes.”
104. Rieder, B. (2013). Studying Facebook via data extraction: the Netvizz application. In WebSci '13
Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference (pp. 346-355). New York: ACM.
106. “The Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolset
(DMI-TCAT) captures tweets and allows for
multiple analyses (hashtags, mentions, users,
search, ...).”
107. Borra, E. & Rieder, B. (2014) “Programmed method: developing a toolset for capturing and analyzing
tweets”. Aslib Journal of Information Management. Vol. 66 No. 3: 262-278.
111. – R. Rogers, F. Jansen, Stevenson, M. & Weltevrede, E. (2009) “Mapping
Democracy”. Global Information Society Watch 2009.
“We look at Google results and see society
instead of Google.”
112. For example:
!
What kinds of rights are most prominently
recognised or referred to in different countries?
113. Query the term “rights” in the local languages in
the local Google versions.
!
List top ten distinctive rights types in the order
that Google provided them.
114. Google.se with query “rattigheter” (13.07.09)
Google.fi with query “oikeudet” (13.07.09)
Google.ee with query “oigused” (15.07.09)
Google.lv with query “tiesibas” (16.07.09)
Google.co.uk with query “rights” (13.07.09)
Google.nl with query “rechten” (13.07.09)
Google.be with query “rechten van” (15.07.09)
Google.be with query “droits” (14.07.09)
Google.lu with query “rechte” (15.07.09)
Google.de with query “rechte” (15.07.09)
Google.at with query “rechte” (15.07.09)
Google.ch with query “rechte” (15.07.09)
Google.fr with query “droits” (14.07.09)
Google.pt with query “direitos” (14.07.09)
Google.es with query “derechos” (13.07.09)
Google.it with query “diritto al” OR “diritto all” OR “diritto alla” (13.07.09)
Google.ro with query “drepturile” (13.07.09)
Google.mo with query “drepturile” (13.07.09)
Google.ru with query “prava” (13.07.09)
Google.com.tr with query “haklari” (17.07.09)
GGoogle.com.ph with query “karapatang” (16.07.09)
Google.ci with query “droits” (17.07.09)
Google.com.au with query “rights” (14.07.09)
Google.ca with query “rights” (15.07.09)
Google.ca with query “droits” (15.07.09)
Google.com with query “rights” (14.07.09)
Google.com with query “derechos” (15.07.09)
Google.com.mx with query “derechos” (15.07.09)
Google.com.br with query “direitos” (15.07.09)
Google.ar with query “derechos” (15.07.09)
Google.pe with query “derechos” (15.07.09)
115. R. Rogers, F. Jansen, Stevenson, M. & Weltevrede, E. (2009) “Mapping Democracy”. Global Information
Society Watch. Available at: http://www.giswatch.org/fr/node/158
117. Venturini, T., Baya-laffite, N., Cointet, J., Gray, I., Zabban, V., & De Pryck, K. (2014) “Three Maps and Three
Misunderstandings : A Digital Mapping of Climate Diplomacy.” Big Data and Society, 2014, 1(1).
Available at: http://medialab.sciences-po.fr/publications/misunderstandings/
119. – Bernhard Rieder. “Studying Facebook via data extraction:
the Netvizz application.”
“The main tenet of [social network analysis] is to
envision groups and other social units as
networks, that is, as connected ensembles that
emerge from tangible and direct connections
(friendships, work relationships, joint leisure,
direct interactions, etc.) rather than as social
categories.”
120.
121. “Gephi is an interactive visualization and
exploration platform for all kinds of networks
and complex systems, dynamic and
hierarchical graphs.”
124. Rogers, R. et al (2013) “Right-Wing Formations in Europe and Their Counter-Measures: An Online
Mapping”. Digital Methods Initiative. https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/RightWingPopulismStudy
Rogers, R. et al (2013) “Right-Wing Formations in Europe and Their Counter-Measures: An Online
Mapping”. Digital Methods Initiative. https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/RightWingPopulismStudy
144. – Bruno Latour. “A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy
of Design”. Talks for the Design History Society Falmouth, Cornwall, 3rd
September 2008
“So here is the question I wish to raise to
designers: where are the visualization tools that
allow the contradictory and controversial
nature of matters of concern to be
represented?”
155. 1. story #1: climate negotiations
2. story #2: rise of the far right
3. story #3: “care drain”
4. story #4: cablegate
5. story #5: climate skeptics
6. innovation #1: social media and web as data
7. innovation #2: search as research
8. innovation #3: co-occurrence analysis
9. innovation #4: network analysis
10. innovation #5: hyperlink analysis
11. opportunity #1: identifying sources
12. opportunity #2: social media and web as sources
13. opportunity #3: analysis and verification
14. opportunity #4: source partisanship
15. opportunity #5: presentation
16. reflection #1: from digging to tracing?
17. reflection #2: mapping for what?
156. Thank You!
Liliana Bounegru | lilianabounegru.org | @bb_liliana
Jonathan Gray | jonathangray.org | @jwyg
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