Demography has been a data-driven discipline since its birth. Data collection and the development of formal methods have sustained most of the major advances in our understanding of population processes. Today's increasing availability of digital records (e.g., social media data, digitized historical data, call detail records, smartphone apps, and blogs) holds the promise of an exceptional development of new demographic knowledge, which will lead to theoretical advances in population studies. At the same time, the use of social media and Internet are affecting people’s daily activities as well as life planning, with implications for demographic behavior that are not well understood.
The panel plans to organize a series of activities (e.g., research and training workshops, seminars, conference sessions or side meetings), that are intended to: (i) promote communication and exchange between the communities of demographers and data scientists; (ii) favor discussion of research questions and methodologies at the intersection of social media research and population studies; (iii) stimulate scholars to think about how formal demographic methods can be applied to big data research; (iv) provide opportunities for training to students and young researchers; (v) increase the visibility of demography as a discipline, in the context of big data research and stimulate attention for population studies in scientific communities related to information science.
Symposium on Digital Demography
Rostock, Germany, 17-18 October 2018
Workshop: Making Sense of Online Data for Population Research
Side event at theInternational Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)
Stanford, United States, 25 June 2018.
- Call for contributions - Closed.
- Programme
Research workshop on Demographic Research in the Digital Age
Side event at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the PAA.
Denver (Colorado), United States, 25 April 2018
Training workshop on Social Media, Big Data and Digital Demography
Side event at the XXVIII International Population Conference Conference.
Cape Town, South Africa, 29 October 2017
Tutorial on Digital Demography
Side event at the 3rd Annual International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2 2017).
Cologne, Germany, 10 July 2017; 14:30-17:45
Workshop on Social Media and Demographic Research: Applications and Implications
Side event at the 11th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-17)
Montreal, Canada, 15 May 2017
Training Workshop on Social Media and Demographic Methods
Side meeting at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America (PAA)
Chicago, United States, 26 April 2017: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Tutorial on Digital Demography, at the 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2017 - 3-7 April 2017)
Perth, Australia, 4 April 2017
Workshop on Web, Social Media, and Cellphone Data for Demographic Research
Pre-Conference Workshop at the 8th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2016)
Bellevue (Seattle), United States, 14 November 2016
- Call for submissions - closed
For more information, please visit the workshop website: http://projects.demog.berkeley.edu/socinfo2016/
Workshop on Web, Social Media Data and Demographic Research
Pre-Conference workshop at the VII ALAP-XX ABEP Congress
Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, 17 October 2016, 9:00-13:00
Workshop on Web, Social Media Data and Demographic Research
Pre-Conference Workshop at the European Population Conference
Mainz, Germany, 31 August 2016, 13:30-17:30
Workshop on Social Media and Demographic Research: Applications and Implications
Side event at the 10th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-16)
Cologne, Germany, 17 May 2016
- Call for contributions - Closed.
- Workshop report.