“Denial in the network”
Increasing attention is drawn to the problem of HIV and AIDS, in particular to the problem of denial of their existence. HSE-researchers contributed to the understanding of this phenomenon, describing existing online community of AIDS- dissidents.
ISMW FRUCT-2016
Sergey Koltsov and Olesya Koltsova was invited as experts in the field of topic modeling to conduct workshops at International FRUCT conference ISMW-2016.
Digital face of Saint-Petersburg
Pictures in the social network sites Instagram provide many personal information: who are friends of you, what do you eat, how do you prefer to relax and so on. People pictorialize the surrounding, in particular, the city environment. The participants of Summer School «Digital Traces I: Meta-Morphologies of St. Petersburg» made an attempt to analyze in which way city folk construct the digital “face” of city in their own Instagram-accounts.
The 6 th International Summer School "THEORY AND METHODS OF LONGITUDINAL SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS"
The Summer School on methods of research in the field of network analysis has been held in the International Laboratory Network Analysis (HSE, Moscow) for 6 years. This summer the intern-researcher of LINIS Yadviga Sinyavskaya participated in the work of the summer school held from1 to 5 August 2016 in Moscow.
LINIS at SIGIR-2016
Sergei Nikolenko presented the report at the leading in the field of information retrieval International Conference ACM SIGIR’16, which was held in Pisa in July 17-21, 2016.
Social Media & Society, London, Piccadilly and Guiness
Yuri Rykov, junior researcher at the laboratory for Internet studies, made a report at the annual International conference Social Media & Society which was held in London in July 11-13, 2016.
NetGlow’2016
The results of the studies carried out by LINIS were presented at the international conference Networks in the Global World-2016 in Saint-Petersburg (Russia).
Why a Student Needs to Participate in ECPR General Conference
Deadline for application to ECPR Conference is in January, so it’s high time to think about submitting a project. Nora Kirkizh, research assistant at LINIS, told us about her trip to this conference and explained why students just have to participate in it.
Research seminar at LINIS
On September 23, 2015, LINIS hosted a research seminar on topic modeling.
LINIS participants at ICBDA 2015
The International Conference on Big Data and its Applications (ICBDA) took place on September 18, 2015, in Moscow; the conference, as the name suggests, is devoted to the rapidly growing field of big data analysis.