RuSSIR held in Nizhny Novgorod, the next one will be at HSE (St. Petersburg)
HSE in St. Petersburg and LINIS will take summer school RuSSIR. After a year or two - this issue is still under discussion by the organizers. A final decision is expected this fall.
Preliminary program for the Conference Social Media and Social Movements in LINIS has been prepared
Internet Research Laboratory (LINIS) has published a program of the conference Social Media and Social Movements, which will take place at HSE (St. Petersburg) on September, 18-19.
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.
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.
Oxford Internet Institute shared a LINIS article
The Oxford Internet Institute has published a post by Olessia Koltsova about a paper she co-authored with Sergei Koltsov, on topic modelling for studying online public opinion
AIDS dissidents in the Internet – a real threat
Laboratory for Internet Studies fellow Peter Meylakhs gave a paper at the annual readings CISR in January, 2014 his study of a group on the Russian social networking site VKontakte supported by so-called AIDS dissidents - people who deny the existence of HIV and support refusal to treat and prevent the disease from spreading.
Communities Are Formed Around Blogosphere Opinion Leaders [Preprint Article]
A preprint of an article by Olesya Koltsova, Sergey Koltsov and Sergey Nikolenko, fellows of the Laboratory for Internet Studies (LINIS), was published on the Higher School of Economics official website.
Noshir Contractor on Cooperation in The XX Century and the Science of Networks
A famous American researcher of social networks and Northwestern University Professor Noshir S. Contractor gave a presentation focused on the interaction of people and their association in groups at the HSE (St. Petersburg) on December 9, 2013.