NetSci-CUDAN 2020: NetSci2020 Cultural Data Analytics satellite symposium Sapienza University (online) Rome, Italy, September 20, 2020 |
Conference website | http://cudan.tlu.ee/netsci-2020-satellite/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=netscicudan2020 |
Submission deadline | September 14, 2020 |
The NetSci CUDAN satellite on Network Science in Cultural Data Analysis aims to bring together practitioners that use rigorous complex network science approaches to further our understanding of cultural phenomena, including the nature of cultural interaction, cultural dynamics, and cultural evolution. The central function of the satellite is to act as a radar beacon for the cultural network science community, aiming to extend the established set of NetSci disciplines, including yet also going beyond computational social science and/or arts & design. The outcome of the satellite ideally contributes to an actionable map of the relevant “multidisciplinary ski area”, helping to characterize the achievements, opportunities, and limits of cultural network science. The central question is how network science can contribute to our understanding of art and culture.
The NetSci-CUDAN 2020 is a satellite symposium of NetSci2020, the flagship conference of the Network Science Society. Originally planned to happen on location at Universita di Sapienza in Rome, Italy, the event has been postponed together with the main conference to happen online on Sunday September 20, 2020. Taking the pandemic situation into account, the NetSci-CUDAN organizers have decided not only to move the satellite symposium online, but to radically change the satellite format. While enthusiastically looking forward to a full week of online talks at the NetSci main-conference, we thought it would make sense to maximize that other most important aspect that drives insight at scientific conferences: Salon-style personal interaction. Inspired by a similar event in the Cultural Analytics community, happening at DH2020 and reported by Scot Weingart of CMU, we decided to perform NetSci-CUDAN 2020 as an "inverted conference session".
Symposium format: Closer to the roots of the symposia of classical antiquity, the idea of NetSci-CUDAN 2020 is to minimize long presentations, and instead maximize scholarly discussion. More concrete, the symposium will open with a very brief introduction by the organizing chair, followed by a brief 20 minute keynote, further proceeding to a sequence of ultra-short pitches, based on one slide per contributor, to spark and sustain an extensive discussion. Questions will be posed in the group chat window of the video conference system, to be answered in person by the slide contributors. The discussion will be minimally moderated by the session chair, and ideally including the voices of all participants. In total the discussion will fill, playfully yet serious and fruitfully, a space of two hours or maximally three, depending on the number of submissions.
Submission Guidelines
Each contributing participant is invited to present a single slide (with a figure or figure panel), including a 128 character title on top, and a maximum 500 character caption at the bottom. All slides to be presented are collected via Easychair in a call that is open until September 15, 23:59 (Roman time CEST).
We invite NetSci conference attendees to bring their thoughts, challenges, ongoing research, and results to the table as related to "networks in culture". The purpose is to discuss relevant aspects and to work towards a common roadmap, towards deepening our understanding of cultural interaction and dynamics. Each submission will be assigned with an initial presentation time. The exact time-period will be based on the number of submissions, a review by the satellite organizing team, and the number of questions from the audience. Obviously off-topic slides may be excluded, but we aim to be as inclusive as possible.
Through the EasyChair slide submission, each participant confirms (a) that they will register for the main NetSci conference and the CUDAN satellite, (b) that they will participate in the satellite to present their slide, and (c) that they will follow the NetSci2020 no-overlap rule. Please refrain from double presentations of the same work in satellites and the main conference.
Committees
Organizing chair
- Maximilian Schich (mxs@tlu.ee), ERA Chair for Cultural Data Analytics, Tallinn University, Estonia.
Organizing committee
- Ágnes Horvát (a-horvat@northwestern.edu), Assistant Professor in Communication Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston/IL, USA.
- Claudia Wagner (claudia.wagner@gesis.org), Interim Director, Computational Socicial Science Department, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for Social Science, Cologne, Germany.
- Isabel Meirelles (imeirelles@faculty.ocadu.ca), Professor, Faculty of Design, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada.
- Juyong Park (juyongp@kaist.ac.kr), Associate Professor, Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea.
- Sebastian Ahnert (sea31@cam.ac.uk), Fellow and Director of Studies, King’s College, Cambridge, UK.
- Yong-Yeol Ahn (yyahn@iu.edu), Associate Professor of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington/IN, USA.
Keynote Speaker
- Tom Brughmans (t.b@cas.au.dk), Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet), Aarhus University.
Venue
The NetSci-CUDAN 2020 satellite is part of the NetSci2020 conference program, which will happen fully online.
To access the satellite, please register for a NetSci2020 day pass or the full conference.
NetSci 2020 satellites & registration: https://netsci2020.netscisociety.net/#register
NetSci-CUDAN 2020 satellite website: http://cudan.tlu.ee/netsci-2020-satellite/
Contact
Maximilian Schich (mxs@tlu.ee)
Sponsors
The NetSci-CUDAN 2020 satellite is sponsored by the ERA Chair for Cultural Data Analytics at Tallinn University, which is funded by the European Commission. See cudan.tlu.ee.