February 2017 - Methoden - mailman.uni-konstanz.de

Fw: [Sigmetrics] Eugene Garfield
by Peter Ohly 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

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One week left to register to 5th European User Conference - Microdata from Eurostat, Mannheim, March 2-3, 2017
by Wirth, Heike 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

Dear colleagues, One week left to register<https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0xDD0D49D8AC6649FC…> to the 5th European User Conference for EU-Microdata, Mannheim, March 2-3, 2017<http://www.gesis.org/?id=10963>. The 5th European User Conference for EU-Microdata provides an international forum for the exchange of research based on EU-SILC,EU-LFS, AES, SES, CIS, EHIS and HBS data. An important aim of the conference is to bring together researchers working with EU-Microdata not only to encourage the discussion within the research community on both substantive and methodological issues, but also to offer researchers the opportunity to give feedback to Eurostat. The conference offers the possibility to discuss needs and wants of the research community with Eurostat. Conference sessions will focus on labour market, young adulthood, income dynamics, innovations, gender wage gap as well as on methodological topics. The updated program as well as the abstracts of the presentations can be find here: http://www.gesis.org/unser-angebot/veranstaltungen/gesis-tagungen/european-… Researchers of all disciplines who are interested either in EU-LFS, EU-SILC or other European microdata disseminated by Eurostat are encouraged to participate. The conference fee is 120 Euros. The fee covers coffee breaks, conference dinner and lunch. Please direct any enquiries regarding registration and accomodations to eu-microdata(a)gesis.org<mailto:eu-microdata@gesis.org>. To sign in for the conference please follow these steps: (1) Register here https://training.gesis.org/?site=pUser&child=register 2. (2) Go to the website of the conference https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0xDD0D49D8AC6649FC… (3) (3) Click on the *book now* button and follow the instructions Please feel free to pass on this mail to any colleagues who might be interested. Kind regards Heike Wirth +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. Heike Wirth GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften German Microdata Lab Postfach 12 21 55 D-68072 Mannheim Tel.: +49 621 1246 269 Fax: +49 621 1246 100 Email: heike.wirth(a)gesis.org<mailto:heike.wirth@gesis.org> http://www.gesis.org/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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One week left to submit to IC2S2 2017: 3rd International Conference on Computational Social Science (submission deadline 01 March 2017)
by Weller, Katrin 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

< Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement, please kindly forward this email to other interested parties. > ================================================ IC2S2 2017 - 3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE July 10-13, 2017 Cologne, Germany Web: https://ic2s2.org/2017/ Twitter: #IC2S2 / @IC2S2 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1859606284258118/ ================================================ CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (more to be announced) Ulrik Brandes (University of Konstanz) Kathleen Carley (Carnegie Mellon University) Ciro Cattuto (ISI Foundation) Emily Falk (University of Pennsylvania) Justin Grimmer (Stanford University) Jeff Hancock (Stanford University Ágnes Horvát (Northwestern University) Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge) María Pereda (Charles III University of Madrid) Daniel Romero (University of Michigan) Matt Taddy (Microsoft Research) Milena Tsvetkova (London School of Economics and Political Science) Dashun Wang (Northwestern University) ================================================= This international conference (now in its third edition) aims to bring together scientists from different disciplines and research areas to meet and discuss computational problems in the study of social systems and dynamics, as well as research questions motivated by large datasets, either extracted from real applications (e.g. social media, communication systems), or created via controlled experiments or computational models The goal of the conference is to create a broad and interdisciplinary community of researchers, including academics, tech industry workers, open data activists, government agency workers, and think tank analysts, who are committed to advancing social science knowledge through computational methods. In addition to keynote speakers and paper sessions, the conference will also include a series of training opportunities and tutorials. Please see the call for tutorials below. =================================================== SUBMIT YOUR RESEARCH! (ABSTRACTS) ==================================================== We welcome submissions on any topic in the intersection of the social sciences and the computer sciences, including (a) new approaches for understanding social phenomena, (b) improving methods for computational social science, (c) and improving conditions for computational social science research. But we are especially interested in: * Methods and analyses of integrated human-machine decision-making * Text analysis and natural language processing of social phenomena * Network analysis of social systems * Large-scale social experiments and/or phenomena * Causal inference and computational methods for social science * Methods and analyses of algorithmic accountability * Building and evaluating socio-technical systems * Novel digital data and/or computational analyses for addressing societal challenges * Methods and analyses of biased, selective, or incomplete observational social data * Methodological integration and triangulation of social data * Social news curation and collaborative filtering * Methods and analyses for social information / digital communication dynamics * Ethics of computational research on human behavior * Reproducibility in computational social science research * Infrastructure to facilitate industry/academic cooperation in computational social science * Computational social science research in industry * Science and technology studies approaches to computational science work * Practical problems in computational social science * Issues of inclusivity in computational social science * All other topics in computational social science Researchers across disciplines, faculty, graduate students, industry researchers, policy makers, and non-profit workers are all encouraged to submit computational data-driven research and innovative computational methodological or theoretical contributions on social phenomena for consideration. ----------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES (PAPERS) ----------------------------- Deadline for abstract submission: 01 March 2017 (23:59 Hawaii time) Notification of acceptance: 13 April 2017 Conference dates: 10-13 July 2016 --------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES (PAPERS) --------------------------------------------------- Contributions to the conference should be submitted via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ic2s22017 The submission should include a title, a list of 5 keywords, and an extended abstract (= main text of the submission) with at least one figure, formatted as a PDF file no larger than 20MB. Please give a sufficiently detailed description of your work and your methods so we can adequately assess its relevance. Please do not include authors' names and affiliations in the submitted document as peer review will be double blind. Each extended abstract will be reviewed by a Program Committee composed of experts in computational social science. Please follow the abstract template guidelines for formatting and note that abstracts longer than 3 pages will be automatically rejected. For additional information, see the conference website which also includes the Extended Abstract Template (.docx and LaTeX, available at https://ic2s2.org/2017/elements/cfp.html) The deadline for submission is 01 March 2017 (23:59 Hawaii time). Notice of acceptance will be 13 April 2017. We will do our best to have mostly oral presentations of the selected contributions, both plenary and in parallel sessions. However, since we cannot estimate the number of submissions we may accept some abstracts for a poster session. Submissions are non-archival. ============================================================== CALL FOR TUTORIALS ============================================================== We also welcome proposals for tutorials on topics at the intersection of the social sciences, computer science and/or statistics. We will consider any topic; provided that the proposal makes a strong argument that the tutorial is important for the IC2S2 community. Tutorials should be of interest to a substantial portion the community and should represent a sufficiently mature area of research or practice. Tutorials should be comprehensive and should not focus only on the presenter's previous work. We anticipate that each accepted tutorial will be 3 hours long. However, we are also accepting half-tutorials (1.5 hours) and full-day tutorials (6 hours). ----------------------------- PROPOSAL FORMAT ----------------------------- Proposals for tutorials should provide the following information: * Title * Abstract (up to 250 words) * Description and outline: What material will the tutorial cover? In what depth? Please provide a detailed outline. If available, please include URLs for slides and video recordings of the presenters' previous tutorials. * Presenters: Who are the presenters? Please provide names, affiliations, email addresses, and short bios (up to 200 words) for each presenter. Bios should cover the presenters' expertise related to the topic of the tutorial. If there are multiple presenters, please describe how the time will be divided between them. * Rationale: What are the objectives of the tutorial? What is the benefit for the attendees? Why is this tutorial important for IC2S2 community? * Target audience: What is the target audience? From which areas do you expect potential participants to come? What prior knowledge, if any, do you expect from the audience? How many attendees do you expect? * A list of the most important references that will be covered. * Previous tutorials: Has the tutorial (or a similar/highly related tutorial) been presented at another venue previously? If so, please list the dates and venues, and describe the similarities and differences between the previous tutorials and proposed tutorial. * Proposed length of the tutorial: please choose from 1.5 hours (half session), 3 hours (full session), and 6 hours (full day). If you are flexible, please indicate in the outline the content that will not be included if a short/long version of the tutorial is given. If you would like to give a 6 hour tutorial please justify why a full day is necessary. ----------------------------- SUBMISSION (TUTORIALS) ----------------------------- Please send your proposals for tutorials to: ic2s2tutorialchairs(a)gmail.com<mailto:ic2s2tutorialchairs@gmail.com> ----------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES (TUTORIALS) ----------------------------- Tutorial proposals due: 10 March 2017 Notifications: 17 March 2017 ================================================ ORGANIZERS ================================================ ------------------------------ CONFERENCE CHAIRS ------------------------------ Markus Strohmaier, GESIS & University of Koblenz-Landau Dirk Brockmann, Humboldt University Berlin Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University Brian Uzzi, Northwestern University ------------------------------ PROGRAM CHAIRS ------------------------------ Aaron Clauset, University of Colorado Boulder Sandra González-Bailón, University of Pennsylvania Brian Keegan, University of Colorado Boulder Katrin Weller, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences ------------------------------ TUTORIAL CHAIRS ------------------------------ Ceren Budak, University of Michigan Jürgen Pfeffer, Technical University of Munich Derek Ruths, McGill University ------------------------------ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------------------ Markus Strohmaier, GESIS & University of Koblenz-Landau Dirk Brockmann, Humboldt University Berlin Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University Brian Uzzi, Northwestern University Matthew O. Jackson, Stanford University Helen Margetts, University of Oxford Duncan Watts, Microsoft Research

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Stellenausschreibung Wiss. Mitarbeiter/in GESIS 50% 3 Jahre
by Menold, Natalja 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, anbei schicke ich Ihnen eine weitere Stellenausschreibung bei GESIS mit der Bitte, sie an interessierte Kolleginnen und Kollegen weiter zu leiten. Viele Grüße aus Mannheim, Natalja Menold Dr. Natalja Menold Wissenschaftliche Teamleiterin GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Umfragedesign und Methodik (SDM) B2,15 D-68159 Mannheim Tel.: 0621 / 1246 286 Fax: 0621 / 1246 100 Mail: natalja.menold(a)gesis.org<mailto:natalja.menold@gesis.org>

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Fwd: Stellenausschreibung Projekt "Selbstbestimmte Optionszeiten im Erwerbsverlauf"
by Prof. Dr. Stefanie Eifler 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

--- fyi --- -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: Stellenausschreibung Projekt "Selbstbestimmte Optionszeiten im Erwerbsverlauf" Datum: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 17:16:11 +0000 Von: Castiglioni Laura <castiglioni(a)dji.de> Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, wir bitten darum, die beigelegte Stellenausschreibung über Ihre Verteiler bekannt zu machen. Vielen Dank im Voraus für ihre Unterstützung! Mit freundlichen Grüßen Laura Castiglioni Dr. Laura Castiglioni Leiterin der Fachgruppe Familienpolitik und Familienförderung Abteilung Familie und Familienpolitik Deutsches Jugendinstitut e.V. Nockherstr. 2 / Raum 257 81541 München Tel: +49 89 62306-423

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Fwd: CfA Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences 2017
by Tobias Wolbring 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

Linking Theory and Empirical Research Berlin, July 16 - 27, 2017 We are delighted to announce the 7th Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences. The summer school aims at supporting young researchers by strengthening their ability in linking theory and empirical research. The two-week program creates an excellent basis for the development of their current research designs. In the first week, we address the key methodological challenges of concept-building, causation/explanation, and micro-macro linkage that occur in almost all research efforts. We strive for a clarification of the epistemological foundations underlying methodological paradigms. In the second week, these methodological considerations are applied to central empirical fields of research in political science, sociology, and other related disciplines. In this second part of the program, participants are assigned to four thematic groups according to their own research topics. The thematic areas covered are: "External Governance, Interregionalism, and Domestic Change", "Citizenship, Migration, and Identities", "Social Struggle and Globalization", and "Democracy at the Crossroads". The program is characterized by a varied format comprising lectures, workshops, seminars, and one-to-one consultations. During the summer school, participants will also have the opportunity to present and discuss their own work extensively. Participants will be provided with hands-on advice for their research designs. The school brings together a faculty of renowned international and Berlin-based scholars. Among the confirmed international lecturers are Dorothee Bohle (Central European University), Donatella della Porta (Scuola Normale Superiore), Gary Goertz (University of Notre Dame), Macartan Humphreys (Columbia University), Sanjay Reddy (New School for Social Research), Saskia Sassen (Columbia University), and Hendrik Wagenaar (University of Sheffield). The Berlin Summer School was co-funded by the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. Moreover, we receive generous funding from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Details on travel grants and tuition fees can be found on our webpage. The international summer school is open to 50 PhD candidates, advanced master students, and young postdocs. The call for applications is currently open. Applications can be submitted online via the application form on the summer school webpage until March 31, 2017. The decisions of the selection committee will be announced to the applicants in April. For more information, please visit our webpage at www.berlinsummerschool.de. If you have any further questions, please contact the organizing team at summerschool.bgss(a)hu-berlin.de

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Stellenausschreibung GESIS Mannheim Kognitive Pretests 50% für drei Jahre
by Menold, Natalja 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, ich möchte Sie/Euch auf eine Stellenausschreibung bei GESIS, am Standort Mannheim, aufmerksam machen. Der Link zur Stellenausschreibung: http://www.gesis.org/das-institut/stellenangebote/stellendetails/news/detai… Bitte leitet diese E-Mail an interessierte Kolleginnen und Kollegen weiter. Mit besten Grüßen aus Mannheim, Natalja Menold Dr. Natalja Menold Wissenschaftliche Teamleiterin GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Umfragedesign und Methodik (SDM) B2,15 D-68159 Mannheim Tel.: 0621 / 1246 286 Fax: 0621 / 1246 100 Mail: natalja.menold(a)gesis.org<mailto:natalja.menold@gesis.org>

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Frühjahrstagung - Termin und Programm
by Prof. Dr. Stefanie Eifler 13 Feb '17

13 Feb '17

Liebe Kollegen und Kolleginnen, anbei erhalten Sie das Programm der diesjährigen Frühjahrstagung unserer Sektion. Die Tagung widmet sich dem Thema "Measurement Error" und findet am 28. und 29. April an der Universität Mannheim statt. Als Keynote Speaker konnte die Sektion Randall K. Thomas gewinnen. Die lokale Organisation übernehmen Natalja Menold, Silke Schneider, Beatrice Rammstedt und Cornelia Züll. Wir würden uns freuen, Sie in Mannheim begrüßen zu können. Mit besten Grüßen, Stefanie Eifler

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Stellenausschreibungen, GESIS Mannheim
by Gummer, Tobias 10 Feb '17

10 Feb '17

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, anbei zwei Stellenausschreibungen von GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften für den Standort Mannheim. Wir suchen zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt: - zwei wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter/innen (Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L, 100%, befristet für 2 Jahre) zur Durchführung der nationalen Erhebung des EVS in Deutschland http://www.gesis.org/das-institut/stellenangebote/stellendetails/news/detai… - eine/n wissenschaftliche/n Mitarbeiter/in (Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L, 100%, zunächst befristet für 4 Jahre) in der strategischen Erweiterung zu einer Integrierten Daten- und Erhebungsinfrastruktur http://www.gesis.org/das-institut/stellenangebote/stellendetails/news/detai… Bitte leiten Sie die Stellenausschreibungen auch an geeignete Kandidaten weiter. Für inhaltliche Fragen können Sie sich gern an mich wenden. Viele Grüße, Tobias Gummer --- Dr. Tobias Gummer GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences P.O.Box 122155 68072 Mannheim Phone: +49(621)-1246-435 Mail: tobias.gummer(a)gesis.org<mailto:tobias.gummer@gesis.org>

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Re: [Methoden] Wahlvorschlag für die Wahl zum RatSWD
by Stefan Liebig 08 Feb '17

08 Feb '17

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, die heutige Auszählung der abgegebenen Stimmen zur Wahl des RatSWD hat ergeben, dass Frau Jungbauer-Gans und ich in der nächsten Wahlperiode die Soziologie im RatSWD vertreten werden. Die Wahlbeteiligung war diesmal so hoch wie bei keiner der vorangegangenen Wahlen. Dies dokumentiert die breite Unterstützung und Verankerung des RatSWD in den beteiligten Fachgemeinschaften und ist mit Blick auf die doch unsichere Zukunft des RatSWD ein sehr wichtiger Umstand. Ich möchte mich bei allen, die mich unterstützt haben, sehr herzlich für das Vertrauen bedanken! Mit den besten Grüßen Stefan Liebig

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