Digital Humanities and Journalism
Insight News Lab is co-organising a workshop on Social Media Archiving at the 26th ACM Hypertext and Social Media Conference, taking place 1-4 September 2015 at the Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus. The workshop focuses on the archiving and annotation of content produced on social media, and builds on our work on the Social Repository of Ireland […]
On Friday May 22nd the country voted for the first ever same-sex marriage referendum. Voters were asked whether the Constitution should be changed so as to extend civil marriage rights to same-sex couples. In the build up to the same-sex marriage referendum Twitter was one of the platforms used for exchanging ideas. We looked into […]
The Digital Humanities and Journalism group at the INSIGHT National Centre for Data Analytics @NUI Galway is seeking an outstanding candidate for a Research Assistant or Research Associate position in the Social Semantic Journalism realm. The successful candidate will work on a project in collaboration with the Irish national broadcaster, RTÉ, on ‘social news detection and contextualisation’. The project is jointly funded […]
After collecting and analysing data from hundreds of professional journalists working in Ireland, HuJo is releasing a comprehensive report on Irish Journalists’ use of Social Media. This is the first survey of such undertaken in Ireland and is being launch on the 7th January 2015 at the “Citizen Journalism and Social Media Archiving” minitrack of the […]
Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for two Research Assistant positions in social media mining in social semantic journalism realm. The successful candidates will work within the Digital Humanities and Journalism group at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics @NUIG (formerly know as DERI), on a project on ‘a socially aware multimedia enrichment solution for […]
We, in collaboration with the Digital Repository of Ireland, are organising a minitrack on Citizen Journalism and Social Media Archiving as part of Digital and Social Media track of HICSS 48. Call for papers: HICSS Citizen Journalism and Social Media Archiving minitrack http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/HICSS_48/Tracks/DSM/DSMCitizen.pdf Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 48 January 5-8, 2015, Grand Hyatt, Kauai, […]
Twitter is a great source of information as well as a fantastic communication tool on specific event. In our – academic – world conferences are one of the most commonly occurring events, where a significant degree of communication between participants now happen on Twitter. Last week Dublin was hosting the Research Data Alliance Plenary 3 […]
The National University of Ireland, Galway, is seeking two outstanding candidates for Research Assistant positions in the Social Web and Semantic Web / Linked Data domain. The successful candidates will work within the Digital Humanities and Journalism group at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at NUI Galway (formerly known as DERI), and will also […]
The Digital Humanities and Journalism group at the Insight National Centre for Data Analytics @NUI Galway (formerly know as DERI) is seeking outstanding candidates for two full-time fixed term Research Assistant positions in trust and provenance in Social Semantic Web and journalism realm. This position is funded by Science Foundation Ireland and is available from 1st February 2014 to contract end […]
Following on from our successful Hacks/Hackers launch, we are delighted to announce a second event in the run up to Christmas. Hacks/Hackers Dublin will host a workshop at The Irish Times building in Dublin featuring Pulitzer prize winning guest speaker Justin Ferrell. Justin is the Director of Fellowships at Stanford University’s prestigious d.school. He was formerly director of digital, mobile […]