Digital Methods Summer School Program

2010: Foundations for Online Research with Digital Methods
2009: Studying the Web with the Web?
2008: Govcom.org Jubilee and Workshop
2007: New Objects of Study

Every year the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI) is organizing a Summer School, an intensive program where we learn and develop research techniques for studying societal conditions and cultural change with the Internet. The DMI Summer School is open to PhD candidates, motivated M.A.’s as well as advanced B.A. students. The Summer School meets physically Mondays and Fridays, and runs from the end of June to the end of August. There is a long Summer holiday period where there are no meetings .

During the DMI Summer School participants will actively engage in empirical research projects, employing Web-specific software tools, such as scrapers and crawlers. The Summer School concludes with a final event where the four research projects are presented.

The DMI Summer School is a component of the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI), directed by Richard Rogers, Chair, New Media & Digital Culture, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, and supported by the Mondriaan Interregeling.