Hello all, The call is out for the upcoming Digital Methods Winter School. Would be pleased to welcome you to Amsterdam. Best regards Richard Rogers Digital Methods Winter School and Data Sprint 2027 Media Studies, University of Amsterdam 4-8 January 2027 Call for Participation Creative AI methods for digital research: Plumbing the vector space What do LLMs have to offer digital research? To date much of the attention to research with LLMs has been in the service of supporting or even supplanting existing methodological instrumentaria. In earlier discourse, these substitutive means would have been called the virtualisation of methods, referring to their emulation in a new realm. Whether working with LLMs, chatbots or agents, the question has been how (well) they can do our analytical work the way we usually do it. There are core analytical tasks AI is asked to perform. Can they annotate and classify data sets, extracting overt as well as latent meanings, narratives and discourses? Can they affirm or find fault with findings made by more standard qualitative and quantitative means? Can they synthesise data to a degree that it more or less mimics real-world material? Can they produce reference lists on a subject matter? But there is also some work that strives to repurpose their intended use, plumbing the vector space for social structures and cultural trends. For example, can their biases be studied as societal indicators? Can they show extant and emerging social and cultural associations? The Winter School is dedicated native AI methods and their creative uses. Applications: Key Dates There are rolling admissions and applications are now being accepted. To apply please send a letter of motivation, your CV, a headshot photo and a 100-word bio to winterschool [at] digitalmethods.net. Notifications of acceptance are sent within 1 week after application. Final deadline for the rolling applications is 11 December 2026. The full program and schedule of the Winter School are available by 18 December 2026. Full call for participation and all additional information is here: https://www.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WinterSchool2027 Prof. Richard Rogers Media Studies University of Amsterdam R. Rogers (ed.) (2026) Content Moderation across Social Media Platforms. Routledge. T. Venturini & R. Rogers (2025) Digital Methods: A Short Introduction. Polity. R. Rogers (2024) Doing Digital Methods. Sage. 2nd edition.