NSMNSS One Year On - FINAL conference programme for April 16th 2013

Final Conference Programme

Here is an update conference programme for our 'One Year On' conference, on 16th April.

Spaces still available!

We still have a couple places available so if you are interested in attending please email kelsey.beninger@natcen.ac.uk asap to request an application form to attend the final event. Please return by Tuesday 9th April.

Need a reminder of what it is all about? Read our earlier post announcing the event.

Final Conference programme

9.30am	Registration, tea and coffee
10-10.30am	Keynote: The Economies and Ecologies of Big Data	NSMNSS team
10.30am- 11.15am	Research findings: Getting the ethics of social media research – learning from NSMNSS project	Janet Salmons, Capella University
11.15am	Tea and coffee – poster exhibition, digital listening posts and stalls
11.30am	Research findings: What role is there for social media research in government social policy	Jonathan Breckon and Jason Leavey, Alliance for Useful Evidence
12.15pm-1.30pm	Lunch, poster exhibition, digital listening posts and stalls
1.30pm	Keynote: The economics and ecology of Big Data	Evelyn Ruppert, Goldsmiths University of London
2.15pm-3.45pm	Workshop sessions

Workshop Stream 1 :  Collecting Quantitative Social Media Data	How do I collect data from Twitter? Cornelius Puschmann, Oxford Internet Institute	Sampling social media data/ Exploring and refining data TBC	Collecting & analysing social network data from social media Andy Hudson-Smith, UCL	Social media polling of hard to reach groups/ Using social media data alongside survey data Luke Sloan, COSMOS, Cardiff University
Workshop Stream 2:  Analysing & Visualizing Social Media Data	What is sentiment analysis and how do I do it? Mike Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton	Doing Social Network Analysis Bernie Hogan, Oxford Internet Institute	Why is thinking about data visualisation important? Lulu Pinney	CHORUS: A methodological toolkit for qual and quant social media research   Phil Brooker, Brunel       University
Workshop Stream 3: Doing Qualitative Social Media Research	Analysing Blogs Helene Snee, University of Manchester	Doing Virtual Ethnography vs Doing Netnography Gachoucha Kretz, ISC Paris	Analysing the visual in social media Farida Vis, University of Sheffield	Tackling the ethics of qualitative social media research Carol McNaughton-Nicholls, NatCen Social Research
3.45pm	Tea and coffee
4 - 4.30pm	Plenary session: Closing thoughts - next steps for the network