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Upcoming Social Informatics Talk on “Text Mining Careers”

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This is the blurb of the talk we will give to next friday Social Informatics Forum (10th of October). We have been awarded funding from the Challenge Investment Scheme by Edinburgh University College of Humanities and Social Science to develop a research project that builds links between interpretive/qualitative and data intensive/quantitative research for the study   …Continue Reading


Visit by leading STS scholar Sampsa Hyyslo

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We are happy to welcome a long time colleague, Sampsa Hyysalo to Edinburgh bring us up to date on his work programme, and examine the PhD of our own Jee Hyun SUH Sampsa is Associate professor in co-design at the Aalto School of, Art, Design and Architecture and a Senior Researcher at the Aalto University   …Continue Reading


Social Informatics cluster seminars for Autumn 2014

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The Social Informatics Cluster is a vibrant forum where academics from Informatics, Business Studies, Science Technology and Innovation Studies, and Medicine collaborate to further the interdisciplinary study of the social aspects of computing. The weekly Edinburgh Social Informatics cluster talks resume next week after a long summer break but with a hugely exiting programme featuring local   …Continue Reading


Producing data: practices, materialities, values

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An interdisciplinary symposium 3rd – 4th September 2014, Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation, University of Edinburgh Hosted by: Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh Organisers: Chris Speed, Gian Marco Campagnolo, Siobhan Magee and New Media Scotland Keynotes: Sian Lindley (Microsoft Research), Sophie Woodward (University of Manchester), Hermann Zschiegner (TWO-N) Confirmed speakers and   …Continue Reading


Identifying ICT poles of excellence, and potential for ‘big data’ approaches in policy support

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Informal Seminar Dr Giuditta de Prato, JRC-IPTS, European Commission Friday 11 July 10:00-11:30 Seminar Room, Old Surgeons Hall, High School Yards Dr Giuditta de Prato, of the European Commission DG Joint Research Centre (JRC), Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) will present an informal seminar on the IPTS work to identify and analyse leading technology   …Continue Reading