What can an internship at the University of Amsterdam teach students?
On November 2014, Yuri Rykov, a junior researcher of LINIS, has attended a short-term internship at the University of Amsterdam supervised by of Dr. Wouter de Nooy at Amsterdam School of Communication Research.
Research Methods for the online world. The program at LSE
Each year the London School of Economics opens its school for the methods of quantitative research, which on famous scientists are invited and are attracted students from all over the world. Intern researcher at LINIS Eleonora Kirkizh has participated in the school this year and has told us how it had been.
IAMCR 2014: Live Journal started buzzing about nationalism in Ukraine a year before the protests began
LINIS Senior Researcher Svetlana Bodrunova has took a part in one of the largest and most important conferences in the field of media — IAMCR 2014. This year the conference was held in Hyderabat (India), and one of the main speakers was a prominent media researcher Manuel Castells.
Konstantin Vorontsov: Additive regularization of topic models
September 11, 2014, Laboratory for Internet Studies hosted an academic seminar “Additive regularisation of topic models” with Konstantin Vorontsov.
The program for Social Media and Social Movements is ready
The Laboratory for Internet Studies (LINIS), which is the organizer of the event, has published the final program of the international conference Social Media and Social Movements.
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.
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.
The structure of tweets: the most discussed and undiscussed topics
The International Summer School ‘Social Network Analysis: Internet Research’ has held in HSE St.Petersburg, August 15, 2013, which was organized by the Laboratory for Internet Studies and Sociology of Education and Science Laboratory. One of the lecturers at the school was Dr. Anatoly Gruzd - Director of Social Media Lab at Dalhousie University, Canada.