The Methods Forum was an interdisciplinary collective of communication and information scholars. The Forum has now been closed.
Spring 2017 Seminar series: «WHAT IS AN OPINION?»
1 February: Facts and opinions in the news media. Helle Sjøvaag
15 February: Technologies have opinions too. Lars Nyre
1 March: Reasoning about knowledge, truth and lies. Thomas Ågotnes
8. March: Rationality and Opinions. Ole Hjortland
15 March: Survey analysis and the challenges of ascertaining public opinion. Hilmar Mjelde
19 April: Simmelian Obligations. Marija Slavkovik & Truls Pedersen
29 April: Social Desirability Bias in Social Science Research. Cornelius Cappelen
18 May: What is a fact? Statistical Associations and the Construction of (factual) Knowledge. Jens Woelke
7 June: «Facts vs. Opinions: A Legal Distinction. Sandra Braman
21 June: «Well, that’s Just Your Opinion!» On the Nature of Opinions in Rhetoric and Social Psychology. Jens Kjeldsen
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Fall 2016 Programme:
25-26 August: Data Analytics Workshop.
7 September: Abstracts for ICA workshop
21 September: COST Action application workshop
5 October: Abstract workshop for ICA 2017
26 October: TAB
16 November: Lubos Steskal, Samia Touileb, Truls Pedersen: Entity/entity extraction
30 November: Postponed.
14 December: Richard Moe: Text recognition algorithm.
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Spring 2016 Programme:
10 February: Marija Slavkovik: Introduction to voting theory
2 March: Hallvard Moe + Jan Fredrik Hovden: Research design for measuring media use for the project «Media Use, Culture and Public Connection: Freedom of Information in ‘The Age of Big Data’» (MeCIn).
30 March: Bente Kalsnes, University of Oslo: Methods for researching social media.
13 April: Lubos Steskal: Introduction to Gephi (Workshop)
27 April: Samia Touileb: Analysing framing automatically. Pavlo Kapustin: Interpreting social data with a semantic natural language framework.
11 May: Frode Guriby: Design ethnography: video analysis and design research
22 June: Samia Touileb & Katherine Duarte: Key phrase extraction for newspaper content analysis + Lubos Steskal: Using LDA to model human reading: an exploratory study
29 June: Truls Pedersen: Applied logic for common sense reasoning
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Fall 2015 Programme:
2 September: Erik Knudsen: Framing theory
30 September: Gunn Inger Lyse Samdal, Koenraad de Smedt: INNESS and CLAINO: Infrastructure for language resources
4 November: Lubos Steskal: Exponential Random Graph Model and R
18 November: Kristian Bjørkelo: Studying users of games, for the project «Games and Transgressive Aesthetics»
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Spring 2015 Programme:
25 March: Helle Sjøvaag + Truls Pedersen: Automatic analysis of news diversity
8 April: Dag Elgesem + Eirik Stavelin: Automatic content analysis
22 April: Samia Touileb: Natural language processing and sentiment analysis. + Lubos Steskal: topic modelling and network analysis
6 May: Csaba Veres: Mind mapping. Kristine Jørgensen: Analysing users of games, for the project «Games and Transgressive Aesthetics»
27 May: Bjarte Johannesen: Named entity detection. Bjørnar Tessem: Analysing mobile phone use.