Our own Shawn Walker is giving a keynote address on the preservation of social media data at a workshop on Digital Research in Social Sciences at Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, held May 17-19.
ASU’s annual Machine Learning Day will once again be hosted by the B2C2 initiative on West Campus, Friday, April 9. It brings together scholars from across multiple fields who make use of ML in their research to give talks and provide tutorials. More information can be found here.
Description The School of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University is seeking a full-time, benefits-eligible Assistant or Associate Teaching Professor of Data and Society. This new faculty member will contribute primarily to our online and campus-based programs. We are Read more…
Los Angeles, February 4-5, 2023(Writing Sprint, February 6-7, 2023) Over the last decade, there has been growing concern over the influence of platforms on multiple spheres of life. Definitions of “platforms” are various and controversial. As defined by van Dijck, platforms are, “providers of software, (sometimes) hardware, and services that Read more…
We will be welcoming our colleague at ASU, Katie Pine, for our final B2C2 talk for the semester on Wednesday, April 13, at 10:30 Arizona Time (17:30 UTC). Please join us for the informal talk. Feeding the Machine out of Thin Air: Data Crafting in the ‘Data-Driven’ OrganizationKathleen Pine(w/ Melissa Mazmanian) Read more…
We are very pleased to host Professor Marcello di Bello for our next B2C2 talk on Wednesday, March 23, 10:30-11:30 Arizona time (17:30 UTC). Please join us. The literature on algorithmic fairness in computer science is replete with impossibility theorems. They show that no predictive algorithm can concurrently achieve different Read more…
Join us on September 22 at 2pm for the next B2C2 seminar, “Talk: Critical Digital Studies, DH, and Ethical Collaboration,” with Liz Grumbach (Program Manager for Digital Humanities and Research at the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics) and Sarah Florini (Ass. Prof. of Film and Media Studies). Critical digital studies Read more…
Nick Proferes has recently published (with co-authors from four other institutions), an analysis of 727 research articles that used Reddit as a source of data over a decade period. The article appears in Social Media + Society, detailing the sampling and methods used, and concludes with a warning: “Reddit’s unique Read more…
We are thrilled to note that our Postdoctoral Scholar, Kelley Cotter, has joined the faculty at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State as a tenure track assistant professor. She joined ASU as a postdoctoral scholar during a difficult time, but demonstrated tremendous resolve during the pandemic Read more…
The Phoenix Business Journal reports that jobs in tech have increased by 26% this quarter, with an increase of 4,394 jobs from the previous quarter. Phoenix is the second fastest growing city in the US in the technology sector, benefitting from large employers in the Valley, like Deloitte and Accenture, Read more…