http://crookedtimber.org/2013/05/21/call-for-participation-doctoral-workshop/
They're reviewing applications right now; applying earlier is better. The application form is really short. Scholars who study Wikimedia readers' and editors' behavior, and who want better tools to analyse the datasets available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Data , might benefit. > We invite doctoral students who study human behavior in digital environments, > and who are at the beginning stages of their dissertation work, to apply to a > workshop focusing on methodological issues in this kind of research. > The goal of the workshop is to bring together about a dozen junior and > half-a-dozen senior scholars to discuss methodological best practices for the > in-depth study of human behavior in digital environments. So-called “big > data” offer lots of opportunities to study the social world, but may miss > insights that methods such as in-person observations and interviews can > discover. Bringing different types of data and methods together can help > address challenges, such as biased data sets, and can help glean new > insights. Workshop participants will discuss tools that exist and tools that > need to be developed for sharable, sustainable, and scalable approaches to > collecting, coding, and analyzing comparable data about human behavior in > digital environments. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
