[Colloquium] Thursday 10/18 | Zizi Papacharissi at the Computational Social Science Workshop

[Nora Nickels via Colloquium]

THE COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE WORKSHOP PRESENTSZIZI PAPACHARISSIPROFESSOR
AND HEAD OF COMMUNICATION, PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCEUNIVERSITY OF
ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO



The Computational Social Science Workshop
<https://macss.uchicago.edu/content/computation-workshop>at the University
of Chicago cordially invites you to attend this week’s talk:


AFFECTIVE PUBLICS: NEWS STORYTELLING, SENTIMENT AND TECHNOLOGY
<https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/zizi_papacharissi/blob/master/AffPublixZP.pdf>


Summary: Social media excite the public imagination with their potential
for democratization, newer forms of news storytelling and social change.
Digitally aided waves of civil unrest invite speculation on whether social
media make or break the pace of revolutionary movements. Drawing from
analyses of the unfinished revolutions and interrupted movements of the
past few years, this talk begins by examining the role of social media in
introducing a new political. Data from recent studies undertaken at the
University of Illinois at Chicago are presented in explicating the
relevance of the platform for contemporary news storytelling, framing, and
gatekeeping. The talk concludes with an emphasis on the concept of
affective publics, and how these public formations sustain all forms of
mobilization, including recent waves of populism.


THURSDAY, 10/18/201811:00AM-12:20PMKENT 120


A light lunch will be provided by Pizza Capri.



Zizi Papacharissi is Professor and Head of the Communication Department,
Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and
University Scholar at the University of Illinois System. Her work focuses
on the social and political consequences of online media. She has published
nine books, over 70 journal articles and book chapters, and serves on the
editorial board of fifteen journals. Zizi is the founding and current
Editor of the open access journal Social Media & Society. She has
collaborated with Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Oculus and has
participated in closed consultations with the Obama 2012 election campaign.
She sits on the Committee on the Health and Well-Being of Young Adults,
funded by the National Academies of Science, the National Research Council,
and the Institute of Medicine in the US, and has been invited to lecture
about her work on social media in several Universities and Research
Institutes in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Her work has been
translated in Greek, German, Korean, Chinese, Hungarian, Italian, Turkish,
and Persian. She is presently working on her 10th book, titled After
Democracy, with Yale University Press.




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The 2018-2019 Computational Social Science Workshop
<https://macss.uchicago.edu/content/computation-workshop>meets Thursdays
from 11 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. in Kent 120. All interested faculty and graduate
students are welcome.

Students in the Masters of Computational Social Science program are
expected to attend and join the discussion by posting a comment on the issues
page
<https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/zizi_papacharissi/issues>of
the workshop’s public repository on GitHub.
<https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/zizi_papacharissi> Further
instructions are documented in the Computational Social Science
Workshop’s README
on Github. <https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/README>

-- 
Nora Nickels
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Comparative Human Development
Preceptor, Masters in Computational Social Science
Fellow, Institute for Mind and Biology
The University of Chicago
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