We are ready with another intro workshop on Python for the social sciences and humanities đ Everyone is welcome, from professor to 1st year student! Just remember to sign up (details on poster) đšâđđ©âđ
Elena Aversa from Density Design is visiting the DANI Research Project and the Digital Media Lab during week 25 and she has kindly agreed to present some of her work at an informal brown bag seminar in the lab.
Time: 20th June 2024 from 12-13
Place: Digital Media Lab (room 42.1-01)
Title: The multimodal circulation of misleading infovis on social media platforms
Information visualisation (infovis) attracts considerable attention on social media platforms, especially during societal crises. Due to its rhetorical influence, it holds the power to mislead. Therefore, its circulation on social media platforms can amplify the impacts of information disorders, jeopardising citizensâ right to reliable information. My research explores the multimodal characteristics of misleading information visualisations that travel through social media platforms. The aim is to define a common ground for including infovis literacy within the panorama of digital media and information literacies. The presentation will focus on two classifications developed from the analysis of a collection of infovis shared online in the first months of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
All welcome â please share â no registration â bring your lunch
Digital Media Lab, RUC (room 42.1-01)
23 May 2024 from 12.30-13.45
There are rich computational resources available for students and staff at RUC, including UCloud, which gives access to computing power in the cloud through a graphical interface. Jakub Klust from RUCâs High Performance Computing (HPC) Centre visits the lab to give us a hands-on introduction to how to get up and running. No special experience or equipment is required, but bring your laptop. After Jakubâs intro, our own lab member Jakob BĂŠk Kristensen will provide a demonstration case from his own research so that everyone who is interested can test what it feels like to run a data analysis via UCloud.
Program:
All welcome â please share â no registration needed
Digital Media Lab, RUC (lokale 42.1-01)
16. april 2024 kl 13.00-14.30
Udviklingen af nye digitale muligheder for at indsamle forskningsdata er ledsaget af en udvikling af nye tiltag og krav til beskyttelsen af data. IsĂŠr GDPR-lovgivningen er blevet vigtig at forstĂ„, nĂ„r det gĂŠlder forskningsdata med personoplysninger. GDPR stiller krav om at alle offentlige organisationer, der behandler persondata, har en sĂ„kaldt Data Protection Officer (DPO eller databeskyttelsesrĂ„dgiver). I denne lab session fĂ„r vi besĂžg af RUCâs DPO, Peter Jakobsen, der fortĂŠller om hvilke forpligtelser og redskaber, vi har, nĂ„r det gĂŠlder GDPR. Peter kommer desuden ind pĂ„ anmeldelsespligt til Rigsarkivet og pĂ„ nogle retningslinjer for brug af AI, som er under udvikling. Der vil vĂŠre god tid til at stille spĂžrgsmĂ„l og diskutere forskellige forskningscases.
Alle forskere pÄ RUC er velkomne. Skriv os en mail pÄ digitalmedialab@ruc.dk, hvis du er i tvivl om arrangementet passer til dig.
I forbindelse med det kommende valg til Europa-Parlamentet, der i Danmark finder sted sÞndag den 9. juni, har labbet ivÊrksat en indsamling af spidskandidaternes aktiviteter pÄ Facebook. FormÄlet er at bidrage til debatten om det kommende EP-valg med mÄnedlige analyser af valgkampen, som den udspiller sig pÄ Danmarks mest anvendte sociale medie, Facebook.
Find rapporterne pĂ„ vores nye fane: “REPORTS” og pĂ„ vores nye profil pĂ„ Zenodo-platformen.
During Spring 2024, we are offering a series of programming workshops targeted at beginners in the social sciences and humanities (both students and faculty welcome):
Digital Media Lab public event (in Danish)
14. marts 2024 kl 13.00-14.30 i Digital Media Lab, Roskilde Universitet (lokale 42.1-01)
Teknologier som machine learning og natural language processing giver nye muligheder for automatiseret analyse af store mÊngder ustruktureret data, herunder nyheder pÄ dansk. Dagens oplÊg prÊsenterer dugfriske forskningsresultater som bygger pÄ sÄdanne computationelle metoder.
Mads Lang SÞrensen (ADC Denmark) prÊsenterer brugen af natural language processing til at undersÞge hvordan Facebook-brugere reagerer pÄ forskelligt nyhedsindhold. Analysen er udfÞrt i samarbejde med Ekstra Bladet i form af et speciale skrevet sammen med Tobias GÄrdhus. Specialet vandt Sociologisk Instituts (KU) Ärlige specialepris.
Ingen tilmelding â alle er velkomne â del gerne!
Digital Media Lab public event
16 November 2023, 14.00-15.30, room 42.1-06
In an era of closing APIs, data may instead be obtained via the users of digital platforms. The cooperative consultancy firm, Analyse & Tal, has used data donation methods to gauge how much personal information is stored by big tech. The AlterUse research project at RUC deploys web tracking as another way of involving users in data collection. Come and hear about two different methods for user-involved data-making and the related ethical questions.
Presenters:
Sarah Steinitz and Edin Lind Ikanovic, Analyse & Tal
Eva Mayerhöffer and Jakob BÊk Kristensen, Roskilde University
All welcome â no registration needed â please share widely
Digital Media Lab public event 12 October 2023, 13.00-14.30, lokale 42.1-01, Roskilde Universitet
Danmarks Statistik skaber lĂžbende nye, strukturerede data om digitaliseringen i Danmark, der bl.a. kan fungere som et vigtigt âreality checkâ for analyser af mere ustrukturerede data fra internettet. Vi fĂ„r besĂžg af to reprĂŠsentanter fra netop Danmarks Statistik, der fortĂŠller om deres arbejde pĂ„ digitaliseringsomrĂ„det, og som ogsĂ„ gerne vil have input fra forskningsmiljĂžerne i forhold til vores behov og interesser fremadrettet.
OplĂŠgsholdere: Agnes Tassy og Claus Werner Andersen, Danmarks Statistik
All welcome â no registration needed â please share widely
Digital Media Lab event 20th April 2023, 11.30-12.45 in room 42.1-01, Roskilde University
Guest speaker: Anders Koed Madsen, Associate Professor & Head of Experiments, TANTLab, Aalborg University
An increasing number of scholars and students in the humanities and social sciences (SSH) are interested in what they can do with digital data and digital methods. At the same time, it can be challenging to pinpoint what skills must be honed to engage fruitfully with data from digital media. From coding via database management to visualisation and ethics, the requirements can seem wide-ranging and daunting. In this lab session, we set out to collectively understand and map the hands-on skill set that is key to get started with digital SSH. We have invited the Head of Experiments at TANTLab, Anders Koed Madsen, who has worked extensively with digital methods teaching and research. Anders will tell us about his experiences to get us started mapping the digital SSH skill set, which we can then continue to cultivate together in the Digital Media Lab at RUC.
Sign up via this link before 14th April and there will be a sandwich for you: https://events.ruc.dk/labsession2023/conference
