Pre-Workshop Prep:
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If you are a Mac user:
- Install/Update Xcode
- Download FFmpeg Binary from http://ffmpegmac.net
This half-day workshop delivers two modules from The SecDev Foundation training program, A Brave New Journalism, with the aim of introducing participants to investigative and verification techniques for using user-generated content in media.
Through activity-based instruction, participants engage with course material, applying knowledge shared through “teach-talk” directly in the workshop via hands-on activities.
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This workshop aims to equip researchers with an understanding of how to benefit from the integration of trace data and visualizations of that data into the interview process. The workshop will review ways in which researchers have integrated trace data into qualitative methods in recent social media research before explaining the process of trace interviewing . Next, participants will be invited to conduct mini-trace interviews based on data collected in advance. This practical application will allow for a rich discussion of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges trace interviewing presents.
Trace interviewing (Dubois & Ford, 2014, in review) is an actor-centric method that employs visualizations of a user’s digital traces during the interview process. Trace interviews are useful for enhancing recall, validating trace data-generated results, addressing data joining problems and responding to ethical concerns that have surfaced in the current era of surveillance and big data. If the challenges of the method are successfully navigated, trace interviewing could allow researchers to respond creatively to new questions about the current, complex communication environment in which multiple social media tools are regularly used.
Trace interviews offer an opportunity to connect “big” and “small” data in ways which improve the researchers’ ability to interpret trace data and provide the creators of that data an opportunity to contribute to its interpretation. This means there are significant implications not only for the practice of qualitative methods but also for the ethics of big data and approaches to social media data analysis.
This workshop is relevant for individuals from various methodological backgrounds who are interested in mixed-methods approaches to social media research and will draw on examples from a wide range of topic areas such as journalism, politics, influencer identification, education and gaming.
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The main objective of the session is to connect various global scholars to discuss the relationship between the self and selfhood, digital imaging practices and experiences, and the sharing of the self/selves visually through social media. Our aim is to invite a widening of the ontological aperture of methods and theories applied to the study of the body via social media–particularly the bodies of marginalized identities and marginalized groups.
A young woman uploads a selfie to facebook. The photo of a celebrity becomes a viral meme. Two lovers Snapchat NSFW images to each other at the office. The regularity with which people represent themselves or are represented through digital visual imaging has beckoned researchers from divergent academic fields: art history to internet studies, visual culture to cognitive psychology. Amidst this academic intrigue, digital representations of the body have predominantly been addressed iconographically (in what categories and taxonomies of ways do we represent ourselves visually?) and ethically (what is an appropriate or correct representations of the self, versus and inappropriate or incorrect representation of the self?)
But what has not been explored (perhaps enough) are the ontological assumptions within the process of coding and categorizing bodies, as well as making ethical proclamation about them. Because digital images look so very much like photographs, they have been treated as texts and with such a treatment, images of the living experiential body become frozen and flattened through discourse. Selfies become nothing more than vanity rituals. Nude photos on snapchat are chastised as childish and inappropriate. Sending an image of a body is postage rather than the digital transmission of flesh and subjectivity.
But what if the discourse surrounding the ontology of digital bodies—both in academia and mass media—and therefore the theoretical models for studying, analysing and understanding social media are incomplete? What if digital images of the body are something different than simply a text, a photo, a communicative practice, or an object to be quantified? What if, as Donna Haraway ironically predicted in the Cyborg manifesto, there is no delineation between body and medium, flesh and technology? This rethinking would necessarily beg an integration of quantitative and qualitative methods and a rethinking of online identity and subjectivities.
Pre-Workshop Prep:
Dr. Nathalie Paton, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of AixMarseille (France)
Dr. Glenn W. Muschert, PhD, Professor at the University of Miami, Ohio (USA)
Dr. Morena Tartari, PhD, Lecturer in Sociology, Department FISPPA – Section of Sociology, University of Padua (Italy)
Noreen van Elk, PhD student at Groningen University (Netherlands) and Research Assistant for the Institute for Peace and Theology in Hamburg (Germany)
Dr. Aimee Rickman, PhD, Assistant Professor, Child and Family Sciences, California State University, Fresno (USA)
Christopher J. Schneider, Wilfred Laurier University
Ciara Bracken-Roche, Queen’s University Canada
Trevor Scott Milford, Carleton University
Harrison Smith, University of Toronto
Oliver Leistert, Universität Paderborn
Jason Pridmore, Erasmus University Rotterdam
7:45 p.m.
Chicken wings
Nachos
Fresh veggies & dip
Duo of dips
Honey garlic meatballs
Thai spring rolls (chicken)
8:45 p.m. Menu
Vegetarian flat bread
Chicken quesadilla
Chicken wings 4lbs
Fresh fruit platter
Cheese Platter