Презентация "Laboratory for Internet studies" – проект, доклад

LABORATORY FOR INTERNET STUDIES www.linis.ru

PEOPLE

Peter Meylakhs, Sociologist, Senior researcher

Sergei Koltcov, Physicist, technical director

Svetlana Bodrunova, Media scholar, Invited researcher

Tatiana Yefimova, PhD student in political science, intern

Andrey Scherbak, Political scientist, Invited researcher

Yury Rykov, PhD student in sociology, intern

Daria Yudenkova Administrative director

Sergey Nikolenko, Mathematician, Senior researcher

Olessia Koltsova, Head of laboratory

Anastasia Shimorina, Computer linguist, Junior researcher

LAB’S THREE CORNERSTONES

Big Internet data Diverse methods & tools Social science research questions and goals

DATA1: LIVEJOURNAL

Koltran BLOGMINER mines posts, comments and user metadata

DATA2: VKontakte SOCIAL NETWORK

LINIS VKMiner mines friendship egonetworks, friendship networks of VK communities and....

…and message boards of VK communities (posts, comments, likes, user metadata).

TOOLS & METHODS 1

Text mining: topic modeling with LINIS TopicMiner Screenshot

TOOLS & METHODS 2 Text mining: sentiment analysis

Russian language tools still need to be developed Sentiment lexicon will be constructed and tested with SentiStregth (Thelwall)

TOOLS & METHODS 3 Network analysis

Many tools exist, but most do not process data of our scale Community detection with Louvain source code

RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND GOALS 1

Online public agenda: topical structure of the Russian blogosphere and influence of national elections 2011-2012 on it (finished project)

RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND GOALS 3

Online public opinion: revealing topics that arouse social tension through sentiment analysis (pilot project finished; main project planned)

“Neanderthals are now in your backyard” (a picture from a blog post concerning Muslims slaughtering sheep for Kurban-Bayram in Moscow

Comment-based communities, their topical coherence and authorship homogenity (finished project)

RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND GOALS 4

Network structure and leadership in VK communities of social movements

Influentials and suscep-tibles in destructive com-munities: perspectives for Internet interventions

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