Events

At iNOVA Media Lab, we currently nurture three main events aimed at internationalization, collaboration, and towards a more open public engagement in digital media research:

Digital Media Winter Institute / SMART Data Sprint: Held in the last week of January and the first week of February, the Digital Media Winter Institute has two moments: the SMART Data Sprint, and workshops that attend the digital methods approach. 

SMART Data Sprint is intensive hands-on work, driven by online data and digital methods. We adopt experimental and inventive ways of reading, seeing and analysing platform data, with the aim of responding to a set of research questions. For one week, participants will have the chance to attend keynote lectures, short talks, and parallel sessions of practical labs. After that, experts and scholars will invite participants to join projects and work on a collective problem.

2022: Discussing Methods Making

2021: The Current State of Platformisation 

2020: Digital Methods: theory-practice-critique

2019: Beyond Visible Engagement

2018: Interpreters of Platform Data

2017: What is the data journalism debate on social media?

Workshops

2021: Extraindo, manipulando e classificando dados para pesquisas com Instagram with Elias Bitencourt

2020: Tracking, visualizing and accounting for the networks of (dis-)information with the web crawler Hyphe with Mathieu Jacomy

2019: Interpreting Cross-Platform Digital Networks  with Janna Joceli Omena

2018: Images Networks with André Mintz

Digital Media Summer Institute: Held in June and July, intensive hands-on workshops on cinematic and interactive media topics, in partnership with UT Austin faculty and industry experts.

Digital Media Meetups: The Digital Media Meetups (DMM) are monthly meetings meant to bring together students and alumni of the PhD program in Digital Media.