The ESRC-funded “Social Media – Developing Understanding, Infrastructure & Engagement” (ES/M001628/1) award based at the University of Aberdeen is organising a workshop for early career researchers in the social sciences to come together to explore the challenges of collecting and analysing social media data. The workshop will run over two days (April 19-20) and will commence at 2pm on day 1, and conclude at 5pm on day 2.
The workshop will cover tools, techniques and methods of social media data analysis equipping participants with a toolkit that will allow them to select, obtain, process, analyse and present a social media data set. Activities during the workshop will be grounded in case studies, and hands-on sessions will use data sets from recent research at Aberdeen. Topics will include data collection and transformation, ethics, analysis and visualisation.
The event is targeted at early career researchers (postdoctoral research associates/fellows, recently appointed lecturers) in Social Science disciplines (i.e. those whose research would be funded by ESRC).
The workshop venue is the MacRobert Building at the University of Aberdeen.
Practical sessions will involve participants obtaining data from different social media platforms, a tour of available software tools (including those developed at Aberdeen), and analysis of real datasets. The sessions are designed to be ‘hands on’ and will involve active participation from attendees. We are asking participants to bring a laptop with them, if at all possible. During the workshop participants will complete mini-projects in groups relevant to their own research interests.
Attending the workshop is free. Funding is available to support travel to Aberdeen, some accommodation costs, all lunches during the event and dinner for all participants on day 1.
An application for funding to attend the workshop is part of the online application form.
Link to the application form: http://goo.gl/forms/RMRW07BHLi
Link to the webpage about the workshop: http://www.dotrural.ac.uk/social-media-data-training-workshops/
Places are limited, so please apply early.
If you have any queries relating to the event please contact Dr Jennifer Holden ([log in to unmask], 01224 274238).
Please pass this announcement on to colleagues that you think may be interested.
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