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.
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.
Theory: the Internet has changed the basis for the emergence of communities
The Internet has transformed the principle of forming communities, at least in the online. By this theory a researcher Tatiana Tatarchevskaya came analyzing group and user interaction on the web.
A reseacher of LINIS attended at the conference on Artificial Intelligence in Mexico
Senior Researcher of the Laboratory for Internet Studies Sergey Nikolenko attended the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI) in Mexico in November 2013.
News preferences of Twitter users
Twitter users from different countries tend to read different types of news, a recent study by Brazilian scholar Marco Toledo Bastos has shown. Brits and Americans read world news and opinionated pieces, Spaniards prefer local news, while Brazilians favor items on football.