Digital Media Winter Institute 2019 | iNova Media Lab Workshop: Interpreting Cross-Platform Digital Networks 4 - 7 February 2019 I 10:00 – 13:00. Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Lisbon, Portugal We are pleased to announce that it is now open the call for applications to the workshop “Interpreting Cross-Platform Digital Networks”. The workshop is part of the activities offered by the Digital Media Winter Institute <http://inovamedialab.org/winter-institute-2019/>; an annual event organised by iNOVA Media Lab, Universidade de Lisboa. **Workshop: Interpreting Cross-Platform Digital Networks Digital networks offer ways of understanding social and cultural phenomena and network analysis have become a common approach in several fields of research, facilitated by a large list of open source data extraction tools. Whenever we click, see, rate, like, post, download or comment, our digital actions became traceable and ready to be interpreted as nodes and edges in a network. For instance the analysis of retweet chain, hashtags, images or pages in the shape of a network. How can digital networks be read across different platforms? Rather than relying on the use of statistics, this course proposes to approach cross-platform digital networks by looking at the platforms’ vernacular, the relational nature of digital data in tandem with the medium (Rogers, 2013), and the affordances of spacialization algorithms (Venturini et al. 2015; 2017) – namely Force Atlas 2 in Gephi. Addressing this matter, the course will present some guidelines for interpreting cross-platform digital networks by introducing the technique of visual network exploration and conducting practical exercises in network data extraction and analysis. **Skills required Participants are encouraged to prepare for the workshop by making themselves acquainted with the principles of networks analysis and the basics of the desktop application Gephi. It is important to stress that the workshop will focus on exploratory data analysis in Gephi, not on encompassing the process of how to use the software itself. Sample datasets will be provided for the participants, but they are also encouraged to bring their own dataset (originated from different web platforms). Deadline for applications: 20 January 2019. For further information, please access the link http://inovamedialab.org/winter-institute-2019 On behalf of the co-organizers, Janna Joceli Omena, Elsa Caetano and Ana Marta Flores. Best regards, Cristian Ruiz