LINIS reported about mapping of groups in VK.com at a conference in Barcelona
1-4 July, Spain. The Autonomous University of Barcelona hosted the 1st European Conference on Social Networks, which was attended by researcher of LINIS Yuri Rykov.
Conference "Social Media and Social Movements" 2014
Laboratory for Internet Studies is pleased to announce its second conference on Internet research. This year we focus on analyzing relationships between social media and social movements.
LINIS intern researcher presented a research project at Stanford University
In scope of Stanford US-Russia Forum LINIS trainee researcher Eleonora Kirkizh has presented her research at Stanford University. The project was implemented in collaboration with three other students from Canada and the United States.
Do bloggers’ opinions matter?
Do bloggers’ opinions matter? And if so, how to measure them? This was the topic of the higher research seminar conducted by Olessia Koltsova at the School of media and communications at Södertörn university, Stockholm, on April 22, 2014.
Public lecture of Prof. Daya Thussu “De-Americanizing the Internet?”
The public lecture of prof. Daya Thussu organized by Laboratory for Internet Studies was held on April, 24. The talk was aimed to evaluate how the present and proposed changes in Internet-based media in large countries – such as BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) members - will impact on global communication.
LINIS Fellows at Seminar of the Council of Young Scientists Faculty of Sociology and the Center for German and European Studies
April 16, 2014. Peter Meylakhs and Yuri Rykov, LINIS fellows have gaven presentations AIDS Dissidents in the Social Internet Network VKontakte: quantitative and qualitative approaches on the open interdisciplinary seminar Scientific Environment which was organized by the Council of Young Scientists Faculty of Sociology and the Center for German and European Studies.
Sociology in action 2014
On April, 12 during the 5th interuniversity conference «Sociology in action», the panel «Media, Internet and Modern ICT» took place (session chairs: Olessia Koltsova and Galina Selivanova).
Linis Fellows have participated at XV April International Conference HSE in Moscow
On April 1-4, 2014 in Moscow XV April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development was conducted by the National Research University Higher School of Economics.
LINIS in Yandex
LINIS fellows, Olesya Koltsov, Sergey Koltsov and a guest of the Lab, Prof. Jim Jensen visited the office VKontakte and Yandex in Saint Petersburg, where Prof. Jensen gave a lecture about advertising based on search queries.
The public lecture ‘Web Analytics Research for Keyword Advertising’ by Jim Jansen
LINIS has invited the editor-in-chief of Internet Research Journal Jim Jansen to give a lecture on the keyword advertising as an academic research domain. The lecture was held on March 10, 2014.