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What are the current “Grand Challenges” of Internet research?

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Accessing Research Data from the Social Web

This course teaches the essentials of programming in Python, the language of choice in the growing field of computational social science.

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New Approaches to Research on the Social Implications of Emerging Technologies

A workshop that brings together engineers, computer scientists and social researchers to discuss alternative approaches to bridging research traditions on the evolution of technology, and how that evolution influences, and is influenced by, society.

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Digital Longevity: Research Directions and Opportunities

After briefly sketching the digital curation problem, this paper surveys the current research and development activities aimed at addressing the obstacles to digital longevity.

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Researching the Web of Knowledge

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To Share or Not to Share: Synthetic Data Accelerate Knowledge Generation in Management and Social Science Research

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e-Research and the End of Theory

What are the implications of the emergence of massive searchable amounts of data for scientific and scholarly research? Different scenarios of the future of scientific and scholarly knowledge creation that are currently in vogue are explored.

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Forum on Relationships and the Internet: Advancing Theories, Methods and Practice

Research on the role of the Internet in meeting new people is an increasingly vital area of inquiry: this forum looks at the state of the art of academic research on relationships and the Internet.

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Social Science and Digital Research: Interdisciplinary Insights

Technical innovations are enabling scholars to reconfigure how they do their work across all phases of the research process, from discovery to dissemination. What are the implications of this for the foci, quality and significance of research?

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Dangerous Speech and New Methods for Prevention

This seminar will examine ongoing research on a subset of hate speech, "dangerous speech", that has a special capacity to catalyse violence.