Jérémie Poiroux is currently completing his masters in information architecture at the ENS of Lyon. He joined the CSS team at Centre Marc Bloch in February. He will be interning for the next six months towards the completion of his thesis, while participating in the AlgoDiv project, under the supervision of Camille Roth. He focuses on sociological issues raised by the design of recommender algorithms and more specifically will devote part of his time to the representation of filter bubbles on Twitter. More information on his research progress may be found on his medium feed.
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Antoine Mazières just joined the team in the framework of the Algodiv project. He recently submitted his PhD dissertation in Paris on machine learning algorithms and did several quantitative studies on Google recommandations and on pornography. Within the DH-CSS team at CMB, he aims at studying the various kinds of biases which algorithms may induce in online informational landscapes, especially with respect to the production and use of search engine results.
We’re looking for a PhD candidate to work with us around the issue of online information diversity. Here are the details:
Main topics: quantification of informational and social diversity in online communities, the digital public space and online media; understanding and modeling of filter bubbles and of the role of algorithms in shaping online informational landscapes.
Keywords: online communities, social complex systems, information diffusion and filtering, filter bubbles, diversity quantification, socio-semantic networks.
Profile: a strong master’s degree either in computer science, applied mathematics or statistical physics, with skills in modeling, data science and a marked interest for social sciences and interdisciplinarity, or in quantitative social science, with prior knowledge of data/network analysis and ICT sociology.
Application deadline: March 20, 2016, applications may be accepted after this date until the position is filled.
Earliest possible start: not before May 2016 and no later than October 1st, 2016.
Supervision: jointly by Camille Roth and Telmo Menezes.
Context: the PhD candidate will be based at the Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science team at Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin, Germany. This interdisciplinary group gathers modelers, computer scientists and social scientists within a French-German social science lab which partly depends on CNRS, the largest fundamental research (public) institution in France. The position will be funded in the framework of “Algodiv”, an ANR-supported project lasting from 2016 until 2019 and focusing on information diversity and the role of algorithms, at the interface between formal and social sciences.
More information on Algodiv may be found here.
Conditions: 1950€/month gross (expectably around 1550€ p.m. net, depending on the fiscal situation).
Contact: inquiries about the scientific context of the position should be sent to roth / at / cmb.hu-berlin.de and menezes / at / cmb.hu-berlin.de
Applicants should send an email to bewerbung / at / cmb.hu-berlin.de entitled “Algodiv PhD Position Application” including a single PDF file featuring a résumé, an intention letter detailing the suitability of their skills and experience to this position, and the names of 2-3 referees who may be contacted for confidential references.
Centre Marc Bloch is an equal opportunity employer, committed to the diversity of its workforce and to the quality of its research. We strongly encourage excellent academics from all sections of the scientific community to apply.
The “Digital Humanities / Computational Social Science” jointly organizes a workshop with the ifDHB of the BBAW as part of the so-called cycle “Berliner DH Rundgang“, on Monday, December 7 from 4 till 5:30pm . The aim of this cycle is to present DH-related teams towards the academic community of the region. The program of this event, which is open to all and will take place in the Georg-Simmel room at Centre Marc Bloch, is available here.
A critical mass of scholars interested in computational social science emerged in the Berlin-Brandenburg area over the recent years. The goal of this workshop is essentially to provide a local and rather informal opportunity to get to know neighbors who potentially work on related issues.
About 15 academics from the region will introduce some of their research topics. See the attached program for more details on the specific talks.
Where and when: on Nov 11, 2015, from 9am to 2pm. Georg-Simmel-Raum, Centre Marc Bloch, 3rd Floor, Friedrichstrasse 191, U. Stadtmitte, Berlin.
Detailed program: available here
Contact: Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad and Camille Roth
A new season of the “Qual-Quant Meetings”, which aim at stimulating interdisciplinary approaches within Centre Marc Bloch, will start on Monday October 26, from 11:15am till 1pm in Georg-Simmel-Raum (see introductory post for more detail on the aim of these sessions).
The updated program for 2015, featuring related activities including a workshop on “Computational Social Sciences in Berlin-Brandenburg” and a Rundgang “Digital Humanities” co-organized by BBAW, may be downloaded here.
Following a handful of methodological workshops over the past year on social network analysis or scientific blogging, the team will from now on organize on a regular (bi-monthly) basis a series of internal meetings on qual-quant approaches.
The sessions will aim at presenting the recently finished or ongoing work of the team as well as proposing methodological workshops conceived as a training to digital methods (fabrication and curation of databases, text processing, etc.). We hope to enter into a fruitful dialog prone to initiative new qual-quant research questions at the Centre.
The first meeting will take place on Friday February 27th, from 3 to 5pm in Georg-Simmel room, featuring the presentation of a study on German and French blog networks together with the introduction of a text corpus processing platform.
The provisional detailed program may be downloaded from here.
Lou Charaudeau just joined the team in the framework of the Algopol project. He currently works on the definition of political communities within Twitter users, relying in particular on press and media links they exchange. This research builds upon his PhD in biomathematics (Oct 2013) on epidemiology, where he could study the propagation of influenza in French cities, based on commuter dynamics. He should categorize cities depending on their transmission behavior. Within the DH team at CMB, he will extend this work towards informational epidemiology.
The team will animate a 14-session weekly master seminar at the Humboldt University on Digital Cultures during the summer semester (Apr-Jul 2014). The course aims at providing an encompassing overview on the variety of digital cultures and online community practices. Sessions will be devoted to discussing texts dealing with general issues (including the emergence of virtual realms and related investigation methods) or focusing on specific case studies or contemporary debates (such as the impact of the digital public space on democratic practices and cultural divides).
Lecturers: Camille Roth (coord. and contact), Joyce Bessis, Sébastien Lerique and Telmo Menezes.
The full program (in German) is available here.
Date: usually Wednesdays, 10am-noon, from Apr 16 until Jul 16, 2014.
Location: Humboldt Universität, Raum 3, Universitätsstraße 3b, Berlin-Mitte.
The third workshop of the Einstein-Zirkel “Digital Humanities in Berlin“, in which the CMB-Digital Humanities team takes part, will take place on Feb 28, 2014 (8:30am-5pm) at the Henry Ford Building of the Freie Universität.
It aims at providing an overview of “digital humanities” projects and teams of the Berlin area. The morning will feature about sixty DH projects and institutions during a “poster madness” session. Kurt Fendt (MIT) will then deliver a keynote speech in the early afternoon, where he will be introducing the Hyperstudio of the MIT and several research projects which are being hosted there. A final podium will gather various key representatives of the local institutions, including Peter-André Alt (FU’s president), Peter Frensch (VP-Research at HU), Jürgen Renn (Director of MPI-WG), Günther Schauerte (VP Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz), Reinhard Förtsch (Scientific Director of DAI-Berlin) and Wolf-Hagen Krauth (Scientific Director of BBAW), to discuss the future of Digital Humanities in Berlin.
More information is available here, registration is open on this online sheet.
Twitter hashtag : #dhb_3
This workshop will take place on Dec 18, 2013, from noon to 4pm in the Georg-Simmel-Raum at Centre Marc Bloch. Its objective is to put together a community of practice around textual information extraction and visualization tools, mainly on the Berlin scene and closely related to Centre Marc Bloch.
It will cover topics such as the identification of structures in texts (named entities, relational properties, pattern detection) and to the navigational/playful approach to text visualization, featuring demonstrations of platforms such as GROBID (GeneRatiOn of BIbliographic Data), graphbrain (enabling the automatic assignment of relational statements to a variety of sources) or PulseWeb (for the phylogenetic reconstruction of news corpora) and CorTexT (socio-semantic description of scientific networks).
The second workshop of the Einstein-Zirkel “Digital Humanities in Berlin“, in which the CMB-Digital Humanities team takes part, will take place on Oct 11, 2013 from 2 to 7:30pm at the auditorium of the Grimm-Zentrum der HU Berlin. The event will focus on the role and position of the material object within the digital world – in other words, how artifacts are being dealt with in a “digital humanities” framework.
The full description may be found here and the may be downloaded here.
Twitter hashtag : #dhb_2
The first workshop of the Algopol project is going to take place on September 24-25, 2013, at Centre Marc Bloch. The project focuses on the understanding of how information is being filtered and sourced on the Internet and its various communities — including blogs, forums, online media of the French and German digital public spaces, as well as mainstream platforms such as facebook, twitter, or wikipedia. Ultimately, Algopol aims to deconstruct (in order to reconstruct) some of the algorithms underlying Internet information filtering.
The “Digital Humanities in Berlin” group organizes a workshop on the role of Digital Humanities Competence Centers. The workshop will take place at the Humboldt-Universität on June 28, 2013, with the friendly support of INRIA, Centre Marc Bloch and DFG. The discussion will focus on the situation and condition of Digital Humanities within national and international research landscapes. It will also aim at evoking the potential and possible strategic role and function of a Berlin-based competence center.
The workshop will be first in a regular series, to be followed in October 2013 by a workshop on “Object, Image and Information Interfaces”. The detailed program may be found on the “Digital Humanities in Berlin” ‘Einstein-Circle’ website.
Location: Festsaal der Humboldt Graduate School Luisenstraße 56, Berlin-Mitte
Twitter hashtag : #dhb_1
Centre Marc Bloch will be organizing a two-day workshop on Digital Humanities on Apr 23-24, 2013. It aims at providing an overview of the various areas of the so-called ‘digital humanities’, presenting a selection of tools and infrastructures readily available to social and human science scholars, as well as several case studies from a wide range of disciplines where digital tools and methods have been successfully used.
The workshop will feature three sessions (Apr 23 afternoon, Apr 24 morning and afternoon) and will be geared towards interactive discussions between speakers and the audience.
See the final program here.