Hello everyone, We would like to send a reminder for the call for applications of the SMART Data Sprint 2021, organised by iNOVA Media Lab. The deadline is already on January 18 and we have now updated the projects and workshops of the programme (sent below). On behalf of iNOVA Media Lab, Ana Marta M. Flores Elena Pilipets Janna Joceli Omena ******* *Digital Media Winter Institute | SMART Data Sprint 2021* NOVA University of Lisbon 1 - 5 February 2021 | Lisbon, Portugal iNOVA Media Lab invites applications for the SMART Data Sprint 2021, which will be held from 1 to 5 February in a hybrid format — online and in-person, at NOVA University of Lisbon. The Sprint is part of the Digital Media Winter Institute, an annual meeting focused on digital methods. The next edition theme is about The Current State of Platformisation. Participants from around the world will connect to attend keynote lectures, short talks and join applied research projects. This year we will bring even more innovative formats for practical labs, including an exclusive track made for researchers non-familiar with digital methods. Applications open on November 1st and close on January 18, 2021. Main audience: doctoral students and scholars interested in developing research from the perspective of digital methods. See the call for applications on the #SMARTDataSprint research blog https://smart.inovamedialab.org/2021-platformisation SMART Data Sprint | The Current State of Platformisation The deadline for submissions is January 18, 2021. ************************************ Digital Media Winter Institute | SMART Data Sprint 2021 NOVA University of Lisbon 1 - 5 February 2021 | Lisbon, Portugal Keynotes *José van Dijck (Utrecht University) *Anne Helmond (University of Amsterdam and Digital Media Initiative) *Fernando van der Vlist (App Studies Initiative and Digital Methods Initiative) Masterclass *Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández (School of Communication at QUT and Digital Media Research Centre). Projects Participants can elect from different projects to work with. *I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT! Trump spectacle and memetic antagonism on Twitter *#vivasylibresnosqueremos: Digital practices and public debates of feminisms in Latin America *Facebook as a political platform *Investigating cross-platform visual issuefication: the case of Brazil's Pantanal wildfires *How Instagram's algorithm shape controversial issues over time? *#homesofInsta for a #lockdownlife: a digital exploration of everyday aesthetics and mediated domesticity on Instagram Practical Labs // Workshops » Using APIs with Facepager » Webscraping with Facepager » Querying digital platforms & extracting data » Content Analysis on Instagram » Studying memes through platform data spreadsheets » Basic tricks for working with data » Advanced tricks for working with data » Using AI to enrich image data » Mapping gender issue-networks with Wikipedia: from co-word occurrences to topics of interest » Opening up the black-box of mobile apps' traffic » Gephi for Beginners » Mapping Twitter social media networks with NodeXL Pro » Reading Digital Networks If you have questions, contact the organising committee at smart.inovamedialab[at]fcsh.unl.pt. *Ana Marta M. Flores Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, iNOVA Media Lab, Portugal *Elena Pilipets Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria *Janna Joceli Omena Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, iNOVA Media Lab, Portugal -- SMART ˚ ˚ Social Media Research Techniques I #SMARTDataSprint <https://smart.inovamedialab.org/> iNOVA Media Lab <http://inovamedialab.org/> I NOVA FCSH I Universidade NOVA de Lisboa