November 17, LLMs are social actors: Chatbots in the social world
NetSCI Speaker Series: Jeremy Foote (Purdue University)
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October 24, Book Talk, Mobile City: Emerging Media, Space, and Sociality in Contemporary Berlin!
On behalf of the Rutgers Digital Ethnography Working Group (DEWG), join us for the first public Zoom event of fall 2025.
Please join us for our upcoming Book Talk with Dr. Jordan Kraemer, author of Mobile City: Emerging Media, Space, and Sociality in Contemporary Berlin!
May 7, Datafied communication: The tensions between datafication and organizational communication
Modern technologies have significantly enhanced the ability to monitor organizational activities through data. This quantitative shift, known as datafication, is particularly pronounced in media organizations that extensively collect and utilize data about audience activities.
April 14, Our Media and Our Civic Life Webinar Series: How Did We Get Here: 30 Years of Misinformation
A three-part webinar series exclusively for Rutgers and Eagleton alumni led by SCI and Eagleton alums Gina Marcello, Associate Teaching Professor, Journalism and Media Studies Department, Rutgers University (’02 GF) and Claude Taylor, Project Director, Title V DHSI Grant, Middlesex College (’03 GF).
February 28, Decolonial Practices in Digital Ethnography
Please join the Rutgers Digital Ethnography Working Group (DEWG) for our upcoming online panel, Decolonial Practices in Digital Ethnography: Reframing Approaches, Expanding Horizons.
February 21, Computational Social Science Lab & NetSCI Lab Talk: Deen Freelon on The Post-API Age: Past, Present, and Future
The Computational Social Science Lab Speaker Series will be co-hosted by the NetSCI Lab featuring Deen Freelon of the Annenberg School of Communication, Univ. of Penn.
November 8, Finding Research Funds for Qualitative and Ethnographic Projects
Please join the Rutgers Digital Ethnography Working Group (DEWG) for our upcoming online event, Finding Research Funds for Qualitative and Ethnographic Projects, with panelists Fernanda Rosa (Virginia Tech), Caitlin Petre, and Yoni Rivera.
October 18, DEWG: Election Edition!
A great deal of the public conversation about the 2024 U.S. presidential election has revolved around memes and other forms of “extremely online” political speech (Childless cat ladies! Coconut trees! Couches!). How can digital ethnography help us better understand the origins, spread, and implications of this type of content? Join DEWG for a lively discussion about using digital ethnographic methods to analyze election-related speech and visual culture.
May 30, AI and Inequality: How Machines Keep Us Poor, Sick, and Discriminated Against
The Library Foundation of Los Angeles presents this third program in its AI series, featuring Rutgers Global Health Institute core faculty member Charles Senteio among the panelists. The event will be livestreamed at 7 p.m. Pacific time (4 p.m. Eastern).