Every year, the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI) organises, as part of the University of Amsterdam Summer School, an intensive summer programme in which students learn and develop Internet research techniques for studying societal conditions and cultural change. Participants actively engage in empirical research projects, employing Web-specific software tools, such as scrapers and crawlers. The Summer School concludes with a final event where the research projects are presented. This year's Digital Methods Summer School is devoted to the remote analysis of events. Indeed there is a growing literature (in the Summer School's reader) on the relationship between social media and events, often focusing on conflicts, disasters as well as political elections. But what do events look like online, and how does one follow them analytically?

Period
23-06-2014 - 04-07-2014 (2 weeks)

Target group
The DMI Summer School is open to PhD candidates and other motivated young scholars.

Course aim
To provide PhD students and motivated young scholars a training opportunity



Credits
0.0 ECTS credits

Course fee
EUR 345[Convert to USD]To apply for the Digital Methods Summer School 2014, you need to send a one-page letter explaining how digital methods training would benefit your current work, and also enclose a CV. The Summer School costs EUR 345 per person. Accepted applicants will be informed of the bank transfer details upon notice of acceptance to the Summer School. For more info see http://www.uva.nl/en/education/other-programmes/summer-winter

Course leader
Prof. Richard Rogers, Chair in New Media & Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam

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