March 31 is the last day of regular registration for *"YouTube and the 2008
Election Cycle in the United States," *an interdisciplinary conference
hosted by the University of Massachusetts Amherst on April 16 & 17, 2009.
http://www.umass.edu/polsci/youtube/
**The conference will feature two special talks: “*Congressional
Communication Via YouTube*,” a special panel featuring three Communications
Directors from Capitol Hill; and “*Uploading Hope: An Inside View of
Obama's HQ New Media Video Team*,” a special talk by a member of the Obama
Video Team.
In addition, we have lined up two amazing keynotes:
*Day 1. “Digital Methods” *Abridged Abstract:* *Digital studies on culture
may be distinguished from cultural studies of the digital at least in terms
of method. The lecture takes up the question of the distinctiveness of
‘digital methods’ for researching Internet cultures.
*Richard Rogers*, University of Amsterdam, Director, govcom.org is a Web
epistemologist, an area of study where the main claim is that the Web is a
knowledge culture distinct from other media. Rogers concentrates on the
research opportunities that would have been improbable or impossible without
the Internet. His research involves studying and building info-tools. He
studies and makes use of the adjudicative or ‘recommender’ cultures of the
Web that help to determine the reputation of information as well as
organizations. The most well-known tool Rogers has developed with his
colleagues is the Issue Crawler, a server-side Web crawler, co-link machine
and graph visualizer.
*Day 2. "Digital Traces: An Exploratorium for Understanding & Enabling
Social Networks" *Abridged Abstract: This talk will explore how YouTube can
serve as a testbed to help advance our understanding of the emergence of
social and knowledge networks.
*Noshir Contractor,* Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral
Sciences in the School of Engineering, School of Communication and the
Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He is the Director
of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group at
Northwestern University. He is investigating factors that lead to the
formation, maintenance, and dissolution of dynamically linked social and
knowledge networks in communities. Specifically, his research team is
developing and testing theories and methods of network science to map,
understand and enable more effective networks in a wide variety of contexts
including communities of practice in business, science and engineering
communities, disaster response teams, public health networks, digital media
and learning networks, and in virtual worlds, such as Second Life.
Please visit the conference *website* to register:
http://www.umass.edu/polsci/youtube/
The conference is supported by grants from the Research Leadership in Action
Program in the Office of Research and Engagement at UMass Amherst and the
National Science Foundation through grant no. SES 0903886. It is
co-sponsored by the Departments of Political Science, Computer Science and
Communication; the Center for Public Policy and Administration; Panopto;
TubeKit; the National Center for Digital Government; the Qualitative Data
Analysis Program; the Science, Technology and Society Initiative; the
Journal of Information Technology and Politics; and the College of Social
and Behavioral Sciences.
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Dr. Stuart W. Shulman
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst
http://people.umass.edu/stu/
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Editor, Journal of Information Technology & Politics
http://www.jitp.net
Director, QDAP-UMass
http://people.umass.edu/stu/QDAP-UMass/
Associate Director, National Center for Digital Government
http://www.umass.edu/digitalcenter/
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