An overview of our events as well as the talks and presentations members of the Visual Social Media Lab team are giving during April and May 2015. Where possible we have provided links containing further information, including to registration details.

1. VISUAL SOCIAL MEDIA LAB
UPCOMING TALKS & EVENTS
APRIL – MAY 2015

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4. 1 April – Social Data Studies Meetup, Twitter UK, London [event details] [#SocialDataUK] [blog post] [Storify]
Francesco D’Orazio: ‘6 principles for handling social media data’
8 April – The Centre for Communication and Computing (CCC Talks Series), University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Farida Vis, Simon Faulkner and Anne Burns: ‘The Visual Social Media Lab’
10 April – ‘What is an Image’ conference, University of Copenhagen, Denmark [conference website]
Farida Vis, Simon Faulkner and Anne Burns: ‘The Visual Social Media Lab’
16 April – ‘Selfie Citizenship’ workshop, Digital Innovation, MMU, Manchester [workshop website] [eventbrite]
Simon Faulkner: ‘A civil contract of the networked photographic image?’
Farida Vis: ‘Algorithmic Visibility: Edgerank, Selfies and the Networked Photograph’
23 April – Association for Research Ethics (‘Social media and the internet - all in this together?’ workshop), Bristol
Farida Vis: ‘Considering Social Media Research Ethics: How Different are Pictures to Text when Collecting Data?‘
Anne Burns: ‘Social Media Research Ethics and the 'Picturing the Social' project: An Interdisciplinary, Multi-
Modal Approach’
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5. 5 May – Social Data Meetup at Publicis London (main organiser: Francesco D’Orazio, Pulsar)
Further details to follow via @VisSocMedLab | For more information contact Francesco D’Orazio | @abc3d
6 May – ‘Visual Methods and Ethnography’ workshop, The Businees School, Edinburgh Napier University
Anne Burns: ‘Imaging Sheffield’ [read Anne’s weekly blog on this new ethnography project here]
8 May – ‘The Politics of Big Data’ conference, King's College London [eventbrite, events is free to attend]
Farida Vis to speak as part of closing plenary with presentations from: Carolin Gerlitz and Jennifer Pybus
22 May – The Visual Social Media Lab is hosting a talk by Patrick Meier: ‘Digital Humanitarians’ (new book here)
This event is co-hosted with the Digital Society Network and Sheffield Institute for International Development
Venue: ICOSS, The University of Sheffield | Time: 2-3:30pm | Free to attend | Hashtag: #DigitalJedis
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