How the West was Won by Data
Date: January 26, 2018
Time: 1:15pm – 2:15pm
Room: Luddy Auditorium
Abstract:
While we often think of data science and big data as being contemporary developments, there is a strong argument that we
10/13/17 – Neal Thomas
Date: October 13, 2017
Time: 1-2:30pm
Room: Wells 030
Neal Thomas, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, University of North Carolina
9/22/17 – Cliff Lampe
Date: September 22, 2017
Time: 2-3:00pm
Room: Wells 030
Cliff Lampe, Associate Professor of Information, School of Information, University of Michigan
9/1/17 – Oded Nov
Human-computer interaction for decision making and financial empowerment
Date: September 1, 2017
Time: 2:00-3:00 PM
Location: Wells, LI 030
Oded Nov, Associate Professor, Tandon School of Engineering, NYU
3/31/17 – Tarleton Gillespie
At Scale and under Pressure: How Social Media Moderate, Choreograph, and Censor Public Discourse
Date: March 31, 2017
Time: 2-3:00pm
Room: Wells 030
Tarleton Gillespie, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England
12/9/16 – Mary Gray
What goes on behind API? Political economies and worker collaboration in on-demand digital labor markets
Date: October 13, 2017
Time: 1-2:30pm
Room: Wells 030
Mary Gray, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research
11/11/16 – John Paollilo
How (not) to Model the Flat Earth on YouTube?
Date: November 11, 2016
Time: 2-3:00pm
Room: Wells 030
John Paollilo, Associate Professor of Informatics, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Bloomington
11/4/16 – Kevin Crowston
Humans, Machines, and the Future of Citizen Science
Date: November 4, 2016
Time: 2-3:00pm
Room: Wells 030
Kevin Crowston, Distinguished Professor of Information Science, Syracuse University
10/21/16 – Alex Leavitt
Playing with Logs: What we (Can) Know from Multiplayer Online Games
Date: October 21, 2016
Time: 2-3:00pm
Room: Wells 030
Alex Leavitt, UX Researcher at Facebook
Abstract
Video games have been of interest to social scientists for decades, but only
4/8/16 – Kentaro Toyama
Digital Technology’s Law of Amplification
This talk is co-sponsored by the Informatics Colloquium Series
Date: April 8, 2016
Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm
Room: Informatics East 130