SICSS-Bologna

June 21 to July 2, 2021 | University of Bologna | Virtual event

Schedule & Materials

All times are in Central Europe Time

Monday June 21, 2021 - Introduction and Ethics

10:00 - 10:15 Introduction: SICSS-Bologna Teams
10:15 - 11:45 Ethics parts 1 & 2
12:30 - 13:30 ‘Get to know you’ lunch
14:00 - 15:15 Intro + Small groups: case study
15:15 - 16:00 Group discussion

Tuesday June 22, 2021 - Collecting Digital Trace Data

10:15 - 11:45 Strengths and Weaknesses of Trace Data
12:30 - 13:30 Brown bag seminar: Workshop Individual Projects
14:00 - 15:15 Intro + Small groups: Apps
15:15 - 16:00 Group discussion

Wednesday June 23, 2021 - Automated Text Analysis

10:15 - 11:45 Text analysis + discussion
12:30 - 14:30 Brown bag seminar: Workshop Individual Projects
15:00 - 16:00 Activity: Text Analysis

Thursday June 24, 2021 - Surveys and Mass Collaboration in the Digital Age

10:15 - 11:15 Surveys
11:15 - 12:00 Small group activity
12:30 - 13:30 Brown bag seminar: Workshop Individual Projects
14:00 - 15:00 Mass Collaboration
15:00 - 16:00 Group activity

Friday June 25, 2021 - Experiments

10:15-11:15 Experiments
11:15-12:00 Small group activity
12:30-13:30 Brown bag seminar: Workshop Individual Projects

Monday June 28, 2021 - Invited speakers and workshop on individual projects

10:00 - 12:15 Milena Tsvetkova: Studying Social Interactions and Groups Online
12:30 - 13:30 Brown Bag Seminar: Workshop Individual Projects
14:00 - 16:30 Roland Adorjani: Top-Down Management Leaves Detectable Patterns inInfluence Operation Topic Choices

Tuesday June 29, 2021 - Invited speakers and workshop on individual projects

10:00 - 11:30 Cesar Hidalgo: How Humans Judge Machines
12:30 - 14:30 Brown Bag Seminar: Workshop Individual Projects
15:00 - 16:30 Abdullah Almaatouq: In search for Synergy in the Task Space
17:00 - 18:30 Rachael Tatman: Rules aren’t dead: Hybrid ML and rule based systems for practical, trustworthy NLP

Wednesday June 30, 2021 - Invited speakers and workshop on individual projects

10:00 - 12:15 Gian Maria Campedelli:Complex networks, AI and computational methods for terrorism research: applications and challenges
12:30 - 14:30 Brown Bag Seminar: Workshop Individual Projects
15:00 - 16:30 Francesco Rampazzo: Following a Trail of Breadcrumbs: a Study of Migration through Digital Traces
17:00 - 18:30 Chris Albon: Machine Learning at Wikimedia?

Thursday July 1, 2021 - Invited speakers and workshop on individual projects

10:00 - 12:15 Sönke Ehret:Online Experiments and Virtual Labs: Issues, Trends, and Practical Matters
12:30 - 14:30 Brown Bag Seminar: Workshop Individual Projects

Friday July 2, 2021 - Invited speakers and workshop on individual projects

10:00 - 12:15 Ridhi Kashyap: Measuring global gender inequality indicators with large-scale social media advertising data
12:15 - 12:30 SICSS Salutation

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