From swainham at msn.com Tue Sep 22 11:17:02 2015 From: swainham at msn.com (Deborah Swain) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 11:17:02 -0400 Subject: [Carolinas_asist] Carolinas_ASIS&T: 2015 In-Reply-To: References: <200905181810.CUV24625@md2.mail.umd.edu>, , <1af06bde0905190918o5ee2dcb9ve40a897b0071ef7@mail.gmail.com>, , <001b01c9d95b$81207890$836169b0$@unc.edu>, , Message-ID: Dear Carolinas Chapter of ASIS&T (CC: ASIST), Hope you have had a good year. To close out 2015, we have two chapter events in the Carolinas. Try to attend one or both. First, on Monday, October 19, the University of South Carolina will host a virtual and onsite workshop on "Social Media Analysis and Its Application in Research and Practice" with Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd, Associate Professor, Ryerson University, Canada and Dr. Amir Karami , Data Consultant. LOCATION: Room 318, Multi-media Lab in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of South Carolina, 800 Sumter St., Columbia, SC, 29208. The workshop will be live streamed. RSVP by October 9. (Contact Liya Deng at dengl at email.sc.edu for the live stream link.) Hope you can attend in person or view the broadcast. More details are below and in flyer attached. Great current topic for researchers and instructors. Secondly, CC: ASIST will be an exhibiting sponsor at the 2015 Health Informatics Career Fair in Durham, NC this year on Friday, October 23. It is for potential interns and employment for those working in data analytics and health informatics. The fair and symposium will be from 9:30-4:00pm at the NCCU Nursing Building off Alston Ave. Parking if available. Registration is free but you must register at www.hicareerfair.com by October 15. (There is also a poster competition.) Corporations such as SAS and Epic will be represented along with the 5 NC sponsoring universities with degree and certification programs in HI: Duke University, East Carolina, NC Central University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and UNC-Charlotte. Looking to share information about ASIS&T, our chapter, and our profession, and to recruit! Flyer attached, and more information will be sent later. If you would like to serve on the executive committee for the CC: ASIST chapter, please contact Dr. Deborah Swain, dswain at nccu.edu, 919-530-7502, committee chair and treasurer. Regards, Deborah Swain Details for October 19: Onsite and Virtual Workshop sponsored by the ASIS&T Carolinas ChapterWorkshop Theme: Social Media Analysis and Its Application in Research and PracticeTime and Date: 11:30am ? 2:30pm, October 19, 2015Location: Room 318, Multi-media Lab in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of South Carolina, 800 Sumter St., Columbia, SC, 29208. The workshop will be live streamed.The ASIS&T Carolinas Chapter is proud to present a joint North Carolina/South Carolina workshop exploring the role of social media analysis in academic research and professional practice. Our special guests, Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd of Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, and Dr. Amir Karami of the University of South Carolina, will discuss social media analysis in the context of the recent political crisis in Ukraine and the 2016 U. S. Presidential Campaign. The workshop will explore key concepts and terms in the field, the methodological foundations and practical implications of social media analysis, as well as the how-tos of data collection. Participants should leave the workshop being able to decide which concepts and tools they might want to study further for their own work or research agendas.The workshop is free. Lunch will be provided to onsite attendees. RSVP required by October 9 to Liya Deng at dengl at email.sc.edu if you plan to attend in person. The workshop will be live streamed. If you cannot join us in person, RSVP required to Liya Deng atdengl at email.sc.edu to receive the live stream link to join the workshop virtually.Workshop Presenters:Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd is an Associate Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University, Canada, and Director of the Social Media Lab. He got his PhD in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research initiatives explore how the advent of social media and the growing availability of user-generated big data are changing the ways in which people communicate, collaborate and disseminate information and how these changes impact the social, economic and political norms and structures of modern society. Topic presented by Dr. Gruzd: The Use of Social Media During the 2014 Crisis in Ukraine.Social media offer researchers in social sciences a unique opportunity to study political events as they unfold and examine how different groups in a society react to these events and organize themselves in the real time. Online groups often connect people with shared interests and background. Studying these groups and their social structures enables researchers to take the societal ?pulse? on important events, such as the recent political crisis in Ukraine, and investigate the role of social media in supporting the collective action. This presentation investigates through the lens of social media how online groups are formed and sustained when the political polarization in the society is at its highest level. Amir Karami got his PhD in Information Systems from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). He has also been a Data Science Consultant and extended his technical and research skills through collaborations with several scholars across the world. His research focuses on discovering thematic structure in text collections using both supervised and unsupervised techniques to create new models and applications in medical, social networks, cyber-security, library, and management. Topic presented by Dr. Karami: Data Collection in Social Media: A Twitter Case Study on the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign.Social media, such as Twitter, provide an attractive platform for people to share their opinions. Twitter has more than 315 million active users monthly and 500 million tweets per day in more than 35 languages. Twitter?s popularity and low data collection costs encourage researchers in various domains to collect data and develop experiments on the data. It has fueled our ability to conduct large-scale experiments on social phenomena, such as the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. This presentation focuses on understanding the basics of collecting Twitter data with one illustrative example in R programming language to collect tweets about the potential 2016 presidential candidates.Thank you and we hope to hear from you soon. Dr. Deborah E. SwainAssociate ProfessorSchool of Library and Information SciencesNC Central University, Durham, NCCampus Office Phone: 919-530-7502 Fax: 919-530-6402Home Office: 919-833-9028 Cell: 919-906-2684 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: October 19 workshop flyer.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 66162 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: HI Career Fair 2015 Poster -print.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 397753 bytes Desc: not available URL: