Álvaro Pires (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Álvaro Pires is the Chairholder of the Canada Research Chair in Legal Traditions and Penal Rationality and he is a member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies of the University of Ottawa, Canada. He holds a PhD. on Criminology taken in the University of Montreal, also in Canada. Pires' research interests are: Criminal law reform and criminal policy, History of knowledge on crime and punishment, Social Sciences epistemology and (qualitative) methodologie and Sociology of law and criminal law philosophy.
Ciro Marcondes Filho (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Ciro Marcondes Filho is a Communication and Journalism Professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He holds a PhD taken at the University of Frankfurt and a postdoctoral degree taken at the Stendhal University of Grenoble. His research areas are Journalism, Communication, Politics, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis and he has around 30 books published on those issues.
Dawn Mannay (Cardiff University and University of Newport)
Session Abstract:
Over the last decade publishing houses have demonstrate a prolific increase in visual methods resources; however, our cross disciplinary learning should always be embedded within historically accumulated perspectives. The Visual Methodologies lecture will provide an overview of the position of the visual within cultural and social science research; restating classical studies, not least to counter the often unintentional reinvention of the wheel, where visual methodologies and participatory approaches are too often presented as novel creative techniques. The lecture introduces a range of data-production techniques including collaging, photo-elicitation, mapping and drawing; and communicates the potential of ‘the visual’ as a tool of defamiliarisation; and the ways in which it can benefit the development of academic, documentary and policy based research. However; the relationship between the participatory and the visual will also be problemetised. Additionally, the lecture will explore approaches to analysis with reference the advantages of employing auteur theory as a tool that looks behind the image (Rose 2001); and the ways in which the visual and verbal become conjoined. There will be an engagement with the ethical concerns around anonymity and a discussion of the practicalities of engaging with visual research. The related workshop will engender opportunities for delegates to engage directly with innovative visual methods of data production and to raise questions and discussion of the ways in which the techniques explored can be related to their own research plans.
Dr Dawn Mannay completed her doctoral study funded by the ESRC at Cardiff University’s School of Social Sciences, Wales, UK following an MSc in Social Science Research and BA honours degree in Education. Dawn’s research interests revolve around class, education, gender, geography, violence and inequality; and her research explores the gendered and classed processes of social and cultural reproduction, relationship cultures and identity formation through a focus on mothers and daughters residing in a marginalised, urban housing area. Methodologically, Dawn has an interest in visual and narrative research methods; specifically the production techniques of collage, mapping, drawing, photographs and stories: she also works with creative methods of academic dissemination and teaching; employing poetry and visual based workshops. Dawn tutors in the areas of psychology, sociology and social policy at Cardiff University’s School of Social Sciences and the Centre for Lifelong Learning, as well as being involved with the Women Making a Difference Program. Dawn is an Associate Lecturer at the Open University in Wales in the faculty of Social Sciences; and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Newport.
Nick Couldry (Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom)
THE VARIETIES OF MEDIA PRACTICE
Nick Couldry is Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London and Director of its Centre for the study of Global Media and Democracy. He is the author or editor of ten books including most recently Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice (forthcoming Polity 2012) and Why Voice Matters: Culture and Politics After Neoliberalism (Sage 2010).
Rosalina Costa (University of Évora, Portugal)
Qualitative materials: rediscovering categorical analysis
Lecture | Categorical analysis is a careful, systematic, in-depth examination and interpretation of a selected body of material with the purpose of identify patterns, themes and hidden meanings. Typically, it is undertaken over a wide range of written documents, photographs, motion pictures, videotape or audiotape records, and it has been used by a broad variety of disciplines, including sociology, psychology, anthropology and political science, but also in business, marketing, sport, tourism, media, art or literature studies. It is true that categorical analysis is as old as many of those disciplines. However, it is also true that artifacts of human communication go along with societal changes in a never-ending interplay. In this lecture, we will discuss categorical analysis as a powerful tool to analyze old and new objects, at the same time it can be rediscovered to help overcome some of the challenges faced by the researchers in the new millennium (e.g. data dissemination via ICTs, internet-based research, and software development). Lecture topics include the presentation of categorical analysis as a pervasive qualitative technique, its conceptual foundations, procedures and languages, analytical paths and evaluative techniques.
Following the lecture, a hands-on workshop is designed to assist fledgling researchers in their attempt to explore the basic methodological techniques for standard categorical content analysis using qualitative software. Participants are kindly asked to download the NVivo 9 trial version in their laptops (URL: http://www.qsrinternational.com). Illustrative examples will be worked together so that applicants might get started with a project building, data coding and display. Rather than take home recipes for ‘how to do’, this workshop aims to be a creative venue, leading each one of the participants to imagine, design and explore innovative research objects of analysis.
Rosalina Pisco Costa is an assistant professor at the Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences of the University of Évora, and a researcher at the CEPESE - Research Centre for the Study of Population, Economy and Society (Portugal). She has a graduation in Sociology and a master's degree specialization in Family and Population studies. She was an FCT and Gulbenkian scholarship and a visiting PhD student at the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life of the University of Manchester. She made extensive additional training in both quantitative and qualitative data collection, processing and analysis methodologies, which allowed her to delve into the topics of surveys and statistics for social sciences, CAQDAS, discourse and life history analysis, visual, sensory and creative research methods. In 2011 she completed her doctoral studies in Social Sciences at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-UL). Her research on contemporary family rituals has addressed issues of time, space and emotion in relation to family structures, socio-cultural contexts and gender dynamics. Her work broadly explores the social construction of family in relation to consumption, memory and imaginary.
Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues (University of Oporto, Portugal)
TALK – Network Analysis and Visualization at the Age of the Social Web
Abstract:
Social media services have become a global phenomenon on the Internet, enabling new forms of communication among people for nearly every purpose imaginable. The popularity of these services provides an opportunity to study the characteristics of online social networks and derive valuable knowledge from the massive amounts of user-generated content. This talk presents a process model of social network analysis and visualization, describing the key concepts and techniques for making sense of social media data. Several visualizations of social and information networks are presented to illustrate the power of visual analysis for mining online communities and user-generated content, as well as to highlight the challenges of large-scale data visualization.
HANDS-ON WORKSHOP – Social Media Network Analysis in NodeXL
Abstract:This workshop provides an overview of Social Network Analysis (SNA) and its application to social media. The network or directed graph is a common structure in a wide range of different kinds of social media. SNA is a set of tools, concepts, and techniques that can help measure a graph and the location and connection pattern of each component part.
Using NodeXL (http://nodexl.codeplex.com), workshop participants will learn how to take data from common social media sources (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, your own email) and perform various types of analysis. Through this workshop, participants will:
- be able to understand the basics of SNA, its terminology and background;
- be able to transform communication data (e.g. from social media) into network data;
- understand the different representations of social networks, e.g. matrix or sociogram;
- apply network metrics and visualizations to find clusters and key contributors in real world social media data;
- get familiar with the use of standard SNA tools and software in general, and the NodeXL social network analysis add-in for Excel in particular;
be able to derive practical and useful information through SNA analysis that would help design an innovative and successful online community.NodeXL References:
• Hensen, D., Shneiderman, B., Smith, M. Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL, Morgan-Kaufmann, 2010. ISBN-13: 978-0-12-382229-1.
• Mendes Rodrigues, E., Milic-Frayling, N., Smith, M., Shneiderman, B., Hensen, D., Group-In-a-Box Layout for Multi-faceted Analysis of Communities, Proc. of the Third IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, IEEE SocialCom 2011, Oct. 2011.
• Smith, M., Shneiderman, B., Milic-Frayling, N., Mendes Rodrigues, E., Barash, V., Dunne, C., Capone, T., Perer, A. and Gleave, E. Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL. Proc. of the 4th Intl. Conf. on Communities and Technologies, Penn State Univ., PA, USA, Jun. 2009.
• Derek Hansen, Dana Rotman, Elizabeth Bonsignore, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, Marc Smith, Ben Shneiderman. Do You Know the Way to SNA?: A Process Model for Analyzing and Visualizing Social Media Data. HCI Lab, University of Maryland, HCIL-2009-17, 2009.
• Bonsignore, E.M., Dunne, C., Rotman, D., Smith, M., Capone, T., Hansen, D.L. & Shneiderman, B. (2009), First steps to NetViz Nirvana: evaluating social network analysis with NodeXL, In SIN '09: Proc. international symposium on Social Intelligence and Networking. IEEE Computer Society Press.
Supporting data sets can be found at: http://casci.umd.edu/NodeXL_TeachingEduarda Mendes Rodrigues is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal. She holds a Ph.D. in Electronic & Electrical Engineering from University College London, UK, and a Licentiatura degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Porto, Portugal. Eduarda's prior experience includes a four-year post-doctoral position at Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK and a one-year research fellow position at University College London, UK. Eduarda's research broadly covers the areas of data mining and web information retrieval, with particular emphasis on social network mining and user-centered technologies for social computing. She is currently involved in FCT-UT Austin and QREN funded projects and is an active member of the US-based Social Media Research Foundation. Eduarda has published in top international venues and is the co-author of three US patent applications.
