June 11 to June 21 2024 | University of Bologna
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome by the Head of the Computational Social Science Center [Prof. Giampiero Giacomello]
09:15 - 12:00 Lecture, Causal Machine Learning [Prof. Chiara Binelli, University of Bologna]
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:00 Data management & Web Scraping, ‘Creating a dataset from scratch in CSS
14:00 - 16:00 Keynote Speech [Dr. Chris Albon, Director of Machine Learning at the Wikimedia Foundation]
09:30 - 10:30 Lab, Introduction to Text Analysis and Topic Modeling [Aidar Zinnatullin]
10:30 - 12:00 Lab, Scaling techniques and sentiment analysis [Paride Carrara & Simon Luck]
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:00 ‘Toxic Speech and Limited Demand for Content Moderation on Social Media’ [Dr. Franziska Pradel-Sınacı, Technical University of Munich]
09:00 - 10:30 Lecture on Working with Digital Traces [Prof. Marco Albertini, University of Bologna]
10:30 - 12:00 Lab, ‘Integrating APIs in your research workflow and Github’ [Aidar Zinnatullin]
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:30 ‘AI & Ethics’ [Prof. Laura Sartori, University of Bologna]
09:30 - 11:30 Keynote Speech, ‘Amplified Extremes: Using Large Language Models to Understand Destructive Political Polarization in Italian Elections’ [Prof. Fabio Giglietto]
11:30 - 12:30 Lunch Break
12:30 - 13:00 Organization & Induction of Second Week
Travel to Bologna
09:30 - 10:00 Arrival to Bologna and Welcome by the Head of the Department of Political and Social Sciences of UniBo [Prof. Francesco Niccolò Moro]
10:00 - 12:00 Keynote Speech, ‘Evolution of text-as-data research: LLM-involved research in the Social Sciences and its ethics’ [Prof. Étienne Ollion]
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:00 Introduction of Group Work
14:00 - 16:00 Project Work in Groups [Under the supervision and guidance of Unibo staff and Keynote Speaker]
16:30 ‘Get-to-know’ Aperitivo
10:00 - 12:00 Keynote Speech, ‘Exploring Evolving Norms in French Print Media through Machine Learning: Discerning Changes in Journalistic Practices’ [Dr. Rubing Shen]
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 16:00 Project Work in Groups [Under the supervision and guidance of Unibo staff and Keynote Speaker]
20:00 Social Dinner
10:00 - 12:00 Keynote Speech
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:30 Keynote Speech, ‘Application of Computational Methods in the Non-Academic Field’ [Dr. Oltion Preka]
14:30 - 16:00 Project Work in Groups [Under the supervision and guidance of Unibo staff and Keynote Speaker]
09:00 - 12:00 Keynote Speech, ‘Studying Social Interactions and Dynamics with Network Analysis Techniques and Causal Inference Identification Strategies’ [Prof. Milena Tsvetkova]
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 15:00 Lab, ‘Applied Network Analysis’ [Prof. Tommaso Venturini]
15:00 - 16:00 Project Work in Groups [Under the supervision and guidance of Unibo staff and Keynote Speaker]
10:00 - 12:00 Group Presentations #1
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 16:00 Group Presentations #2
Departure from Bologna
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