Wednesday 20 March 2013

NSMNSS One Year On - draft conference programme for April 16th 2013

9.30am
Registration, tea and coffee
10-10.30am
Keynote: NSMNSS one year on what have we learnt?
NSMNSS team
10.30am- 11.15am
Research findings: Getting the ethics of social media research learning from NSMNSS project
Janet Salmons
11.15am
Tea and coffee poster exhibition, digital listening posts and stalls
11.30am
Research findings: What role is there for social media research in government social policy
NESTA
12.15pm-1.30pm      
Lunch, poster exhibition, digital listening posts and stalls
1.30pm
Keynote: The politics of Big Data
TBC
2.15pm-3.45pm
Workshop sessions
Workshop Stream 1 :  Collecting Quantitative Social Media Data
How do I collect data from Twitter?

Sampling social media data/ Exploring and refining data
Collecting & analysing social network data from social media
Social media polling of hard to reach groups/ Using social media data alongside survey data
Workshop Stream 2:  Analysing & Visualizing
Social Media Data
What is sentiment analysis and how do I do it?
Doing Social Network Analysis
Why is thinking about data visualisation important?
Using software for visualisation

Workshop Stream 3: Doing Qualitative Social Media Research
Analysing Blogs


Doing Virtual Ethnography vs Doing Netnography

Analysing the visual in social media

Tackling the ethics of qualitative social media research

3.45pm
Tea and coffee
4 - 4.30pm
Plenary session: Closing thoughts - next steps for the network

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