June 20 to July 1, 2022 | University of Sydney
09:00-10:00 Arrivals, coffee/tea
10:00-11:30 Welcome and introduction to computational social science
Olga Boichak, Eduardo Altmann, Tristram Alexander, Lee Wallace
11:30-12:30 Human research ethics
Olga Boichak
Workshop materials
12:30-13:00 Lunch break
13:00-14:30 Human research ethics (group exercise)
Olga Boichak
14:30-16:00 Human research ethics (workshop)
Kate Lowrie, Alan Hales
16:00-17:00 Participant lightning talks (part 1)
09:30-10:00 Coffee/tea
10:00-11:00 Collecting digital trace data
Tristram Alexander
11:00-12:30 Academic research using the Twitter API (workshop)
Suhem Parack
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12:30-13:00 Lunch break
13:00-14:00 Research data management
Simon Musgrave, Ben Foley, Sam Hames
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14:00-16:00 Collecting digital trace data (group exercise)
Tristram Alexander
16:00-17:00 Participant lightning talks (part 2)
09:30-10:00 Coffee/tea
10:00-12:30 Automated text analysis: corpus approaches
Simon Musgrave, Ben Foley, Sam Hames
12:30-13:00 Lunch break
13:00-15:30 Automated text analysis: network and sentiment analysis
Simon Musgrave, Ben Foley, Sam Hames
15:30-17:00 Project pitches
09:30-10:00 Coffee/tea
10:00-11:00 Mapping Online Problematic Content: Mixing Qualitative Approaches with State-of-the-art Machine Learning
Marian-Andrei Rizoiu
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11:00-12:30 Project work: composition of teams
12:30-13:00 Lunch break
15:30-17:00 Project work: research design
09:00-9:30 Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country
Olga Boichak, Nick Enfield, Simon Jackman, Lee Wallace
9:30-11:00 Panel 1. Computational social science in Australia: research approaches
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Panel 2. Computational social science in Australia: infrastructure and capabilities
13:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-15:00 Panel 3. Computational social science in Australia: industry perspectives
15:00-16:00 Discussion and debrief
16:00-17:00 Reception
09:00-9:30 Welcome and goals for the day
Olga Boichak, Eduardo Altmann, Tristram Alexander, Jonathon Hutchinson
9:30-11:00 Panel 4. Teaching computational social science
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Panel 5. Practice of social research in the age of big data
13:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-16:00 Workshop: mapping the key themes and participating institutions
16:00-16:30 Closing remarks
17:00-18:00 The Science of Success (Australian premiere, documentary screening and discussion with Australian director Annamaria Talas
This showing will take place at the University of Sydney campus. It is open to the public, register here
09:30-10:00 Coffee/tea
10:00-12:30 New and emerging methods for studying online influence operations
Timothy Graham
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12:30-13:00 Lunch break
13:00-15:30 The Image Machine
Daniel Angus
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15:30-17:00 Project work
09:30-10:00 Coffee/tea
10:00-12:30 Agent-based modelling
Jason Thompson
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12:30-13:00 Lunch break
13:00-17:00 Project work
09:30-10:00 Coffee/tea
10:00-12:30 Project work
12:30-13:00 Lunch break
13:00-14:30 SSSHARC Tank - group projects final presentations
Lee Wallace, Eduardo Altmann, Tristram Alexander, Jonathon Hutchinson
14:30-15:30 Closing session
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