{"id":23697,"date":"2025-06-28T16:04:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T16:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/?p=23697"},"modified":"2025-06-30T20:43:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T20:43:46","slug":"2025-social-media-lab-computational-social-science-summer-school-online-july-14-16-2025-via-zoom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/2025\/06\/28\/2025-social-media-lab-computational-social-science-summer-school-online-july-14-16-2025-via-zoom\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Social Media Lab &#8211; Computational Social Science Summer School\u00a0&#8211; Online [July 14-16, 2025 via Zoom]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-text-color has-background\" style=\"color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column .column { padding: 20px; } is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/CSS-Summer-School-2025-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/CSS-Summer-School-2025-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/CSS-Summer-School-2025-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/CSS-Summer-School-2025-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/CSS-Summer-School-2025-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/CSS-Summer-School-2025-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/CSS-Summer-School-2025-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/CSS-Summer-School-2025-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/CSS-Summer-School-2025.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-d05cb3ef wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-luminous-vivid-orange-background-color has-background has-text-align-center wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/torontomu.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/HbamFLnMTqiOVFGqdyeyQw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Register Here! (Free)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:28px;width:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer wp-container-content-43ce77df\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Where: <\/strong>online (via Zoom)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>When: <\/strong>July 14-16, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Contact Info<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"mailto:info@socialmedialab.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">info@socialmedialab.ca<\/a><br>Bsky <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/smlabto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@SMLabTO<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:28px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>INSTRUCTORS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style>\r\n\t\t<div  class=\"team-container\" style=\"background-image:url();text-align:left;\">\r\n\t\t<ul  id=\"team-23678\" class=\"team-items team-rounded\"><li style=\"width:;text-align:left;margin:0px\" class=\"team-item even\" ><div class=\"team-post\"><div style=\"height:;\" class=\"team-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Gruzd_profile_photo_network.jpg\" \/><\/div><div class=\"team-title\" style=\"color:;font-size:14px\">Anatoliy Gruzd, Phd\r\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"team-social\" ><span class=\"Twitter\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gruzd\"> <\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><span class=\"website\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/anatoliygruzd.ca\/\"><\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/div><div class=\"team-content\" style=\"color:;font-size:13px;\">Canada Research Chair | Co-Director, Social Media Lab | Professor, Information Technology Management, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada<\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\t\t<\/li><li style=\"width:;text-align:left;margin:0px\" class=\"team-item odd\" ><div class=\"team-post\"><div style=\"height:;\" class=\"team-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Philip_Headshot-4.jpg\" \/><\/div><div class=\"team-title\" style=\"color:;font-size:14px\">Philip Mai, MA, JD\r\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"team-social\" ><span class=\"Twitter\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhMai\"> <\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><span class=\"website\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/philipmai.com\/\"><\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/div><div class=\"team-content\" style=\"color:;font-size:13px;\">Co-Director, Social Media Lab, Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada<\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\t\t<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Join us for the&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/\">Social Media Lab&#8217;s<\/a>&nbsp;2025 Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer&nbsp;School<\/strong>. Explore cutting-edge digital methods in this hands-on workshop series. No coding required \u2014 we\u2019ll be using <a href=\"https:\/\/communalytic.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Communalytic,<\/a> an intuitive platform for analyzing social media discourse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">At this event, you will learn how to:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Collect publicly accessible social media data&nbsp;for academic research&nbsp;via&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/communalytic.org\/\">Communalytic<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;a no-code research tool&nbsp;developed by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/socialmedialab.ca\/web\/\">Social Media Lab<\/a>&nbsp;for studying online discourse;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Analyze public discourse from <strong>social media data  <\/strong>(and non-social media data)&nbsp;using&nbsp;automated text analysis techniques (such as toxicity analysis and topic analysis) and&nbsp;social network analysis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Attend one session or attend all three<\/strong>! Each introductory session covers a different aspect of computational social science:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Session 1 \u2013 Monday, July 14 (11 AM &#8211; 1 PM ET): <em>Intro to <a href=\"https:\/\/communalytic.org\/docs\/topic-analyzer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Topic Analysis<\/a><\/em><\/strong><em><br><\/em>Learn how to uncover themes in online conversations using multilingual embeddings and interactive 3D semantic similarity maps.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Session 2 \u2013 Tuesday, July 15 <strong>(11 AM &#8211; 1 PM ET)<\/strong>: <em>Intro to <a href=\"https:\/\/communalytic.org\/docs\/civility-analyzer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Civility Analysis<\/a><\/em><\/strong><em><br><\/em>Learn how to use Communlaytic Analyzer to access the Perspective API to identify toxic and prosocial comments, as well as assess the overall tone of online discussions.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Session 3 \u2013 Wednesday, July 16 <strong>(11 AM &#8211; 1 PM ET<\/strong>):<em> Introduction to <a href=\"https:\/\/communalytic.org\/docs\/network-analysis-network-visualizer\/\">Social Network Analysis<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Discover, visualize and interpret communication and link-sharing networks from conversation data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who Should Attend?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Summer School is open to <strong>graduate students, researchers, data librarians, journalists<\/strong><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><strong>, and analysts\u00a0<\/strong>interested in CSS, textual, and network analysis of social media data <\/span>\u2014 no prior experience is\u00a0needed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Outcomes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the end of the event, participants will be able to: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Collect social media data for their own research project and <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Learn how to analyze it to detect anti-social interactions (i.e., harassment, hate speech, extremist content), <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Identify and group together semantically similar social media posts, and <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Identify latent topics in their dataset.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In addition, participants will&nbsp;also learn how to generate and visualize various types of networks, including communication and link-sharing networks, which can be used to identify influencers, map shared interests among online actors, study the spread of misinformation and disinformation, and detect signs of possible coordination among seemingly disparate actors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-luminous-vivid-orange-background-color has-background has-text-align-center wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/torontomu.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/HbamFLnMTqiOVFGqdyeyQw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Register Here! 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