Big Political Data: Why and How
Big Political Data: Why and How
Friday 2 December 2016
09:00 - 15:30
IMC.002 (WMG Building)
Hosted by the Warwick Q-Step Centre and the Faculty of Social Sciences, this one-day event will address the evolutions in engaging with and studying politics using a blend of data, new and old, big and smaller, on and off line. Case studies will include elections, collective action, social networks, and public discourse.
Speakers
- Dr. Jonathan Bright, Oxford Internet Institute: Studying online politics with big data: beyond the sample paradigm
- Dr. Javier Sajuria, University of Newcastle: Understanding collective action through hybrid data: Protests and community building
- Dr. Annie Waldherr, Free University Berlin: Supervise the machine, or not? Approaches to grasping networked issue debates online
- Prof. Rachel Gibson, University of Manchester: David meets Goliath? Merging survey data with big data in National Election Studies
View the videos from the event below:
Dr Jonathan Bright, Oxford Internet Institute: Studying online politics with big data: beyond the simple paradigm
Dr Javier Sajuria, University of Newcastle: Understanding collective action through hybrid data: Protests and community building
Dr Annie Waldherr, Free University Berlin: Supervise the machine, or not? Approaches to grasping networked issue debates online