#CUBigData

Keynote Speakers: Dawn Knight (Cardiff University); Linda Naughton (Jisc)

Registration is now open for our Creativity in the Digital Age: Remixes, Remediations, Realignments Symposium.

Big Data has provided new ways of empirical research, theorizing, and interpreting a wide range of artefacts and processes in both the humanities and social sciences. Yet these new ways have also affected approaches to, and understandings of, research. The questions (and concerns) raised by scholars have consequences for the collection, interpretation, and use of Big Data. What are the theoretical, practical, and pedagogical problems of working with and critiquing Big Data, its collection, investigation and use? What can the social sciences and the humanities teach each other about Big Data and its analysis?

Sponsored by Cardiff University’s Digital Humanities Network, this one-day symposium seeks to bring both humanities and social science perspectives to the field of Big Data to think about critical uses and useful critiques of ‘datafication’ in humanities and social sciences research. It explores Big Data-based research and investigations, questions surrounding the generation, use and interpretation of Big Data, and the risks and challenges of Big Data.

Confirmed speakers include: Andreas Buerki, Martin Chorley, Lina Dencik, Ian Harvey, Dawn Knight, Glyn Mottershead, Linda Naughton, Omer Rana, Luke Roach.

Registration is free for delegates but places are limited. The deadline for registration is 20 May 2017. Please register on Eventbrite: https://investigating-with-big-data.eventbrite.co.uk.

Final Programme

10.30	Registration
11.00	Keynote 1 Linda Naughton (JISC), Invisibility, Transparency, Openness, Exposure … Re-imagining Infrastructure for Data Intensive Research
12.00	Lunch
13.00	Panel 1 Omer Rana (Cardiff), Personalised Search and ‘Filter Bubbles’: Benefits or Barriers? Ian Harvey (Cardiff), Building Data Services in Academia: Lessons Learned while Building and Maintaining the Illustration Archive and WISERD DataPortal Glyn Mottershead and Martin Chorley (Cardiff), Title TBC
14.30	Coffee
15.00	Panel 2 Andreas Buerki (Cardiff), Using Big Diachonic Language Data to Feel the Pulse of Cultural Change Luke Roach (Cardiff), Moral Panics in the Digital Age: A Comparative Analysis of Online and Print Media during the Charlie Hebdo Attack Lina Dencik, (Cardiff), Data Justice: Examining Datafication and Social Justice
16.30	Tea
17.00	Keynote 2 Dawn Knight (Cardiff), Big Data and Corpus Construction: Introducing CorCenCC

Organisers: Keir Waddington, Anthony Mandal; Michael Goodman.