How can algorithms underlying modern web search engines be used to help analyze large quantities of interview data? What impact do new media have on community building, both on-line and on-earth? How can we use language technology to predict people's online behavior? Can Twitter be used to help predict election outcomes? How do politicians deal with social media: are they influencers or the ones being influenced?
Questions such as these are part and parcel of CCCT's research interests. Under the CCCT umbrella, researchers from the humanities, the social and behavioral sciences and the natural sciences collaborate in a multidisciplinary setting on information-rich research topics. CCCT is now launching a bi-monthly seminar in which one of the three faculties hosts speakers from the other two to report on research activities that are of shared interest.
Speakers
- Dr. Maarten Marx (Informatics Institute): Social networks in Dutch parliament. "Aanvalsgrafen, een-tweetjes en tandems"
- Dr. Rens Vliegenthart (Communication Science): When media matter for politics - using large scale textual archives in political communication
Location
Universiteitstheater
Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16
1012 CP Amsterdam
Time
Friday, 21 January, 16.00-17.00 hrs (followed by drinks).
Background
Maarten Marx is an Assistant Professor at the Informatics Institute. His research interest is integration of large amounts of semi-structured, text-centric data. An example of a recent data integration and mediation project of his is www.polidocs.nl, searching the Dutch parliamentary proceedings. This site makes the Dutch parliamentary data easily accessible for keyword search and for aggregate queries.
Rens Vliegenthart is an Assistant Professor of Political Communication at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research, Department of Communication Science, University of Amsterdam. His research interests include media-politics relations, social movements and media, election campaigns and comparative communication research.
