Sunday 15 September 2019
Palazzo Ca'Bottacin Calle Crosera, Dorsoduro 3911

14:00 Registration starts

16:00-18:00 Tutorial: Integrating web services for data analysis.
   Carlo Santagiustina (Dept of Management, University of Venice) and Tom Willaert (VUB Artificial Intelligence Lab)

18:00-19:00 Reception

19:00 Opening event
+ Welcome address. Magnifico Rettore Michele Bugliesi
+ Introduction to the summerschool.
   Luc Steels and Massimo Warglien
+ Analyzing social dynamics through digital data
   Andrea Baronchelli (Dept of Mathematics, City University London)

20:00 End of opening event

Monday 16 September 2019. Focus: Data
ISMAR Arsenale Tesa 104, Castello 2737/F
9:00-10:00 Political space-making in social media: Demarcation and data capture.
   Richard Rogers (New Media and Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam)
10:00-10:30 coffee break
10:30-12:30
    Tutorial of the Penelope platform.
   Paul Van Eecke (VUB Artificial Intelligence Lab, Brussels)
     A walk through the workshop's real-time-collaborative ecosystem.
   Carlo Santagiustina (Dept of Management, University of Venice)
12:30-14:00 Lunch break (+ set up of posters)
14:00-17:00 Group Work: data acquisition for case studies (guided by tutors)
17:00-18:00 Participant poster session
18:00-19:30 Society through the social media lens: digital traces of political opinion dynamics and electoral propaganda.
   David Chavalarias (Institute for Complex Systems, Paris)

Tuesday 17 September 2019. Focus: AI and NLP
ISMAR Arsenale Tesa 104, Castello 2737/F
9:00-10:30 Analyzing affect through social media.
   David Garcia (Complexity Science HUB Vienna)
10:30-11:00 coffee break
11:00-12:30 AI and NLP tools for computational social science.
   Katrien Beuls (Evolutionary & Hybrid AI Group, VUB AI Lab, Brussel)
12:30-14:00 lunch break (+ set up of posters)
14:00-17:00 Group Work: NLP and AI applied in case studies (guided by tutors)
17:00-18:00 Participant poster session
18:00-19:30 Mapping and quantifying political information warfare.
   Vladar Joler (Univ of Novi Sad)

Wednesday 18 September 2019. Focus: Analysis
ISMAR Arsenale Tesa 104, Castello 2737/F
9:00-10:30 The Geometry of culture.
   James Evans (Department of sociology, University of Chicago.)
10:30-11:00 coffee break
11:00-12:30 Unravelling the structure of public debates: Inferring opinion spaces and social exchanges from texts and interactions.
     Robin Lamarche-Perrin (Institut des Systèmes Complexes de Paris Ile-de-France, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6, CNRS, Sorbonne Université) and
     Eckehard Olbrich (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig)
12:30-14:00 lunch break
14:00-16:00 Group Work: Analysis tools applied in each case study (guided by tutors)
16:00 Optional: organised visit to the Biennale (arsenale section).
Free evening

Thursday 19 September 2019. Focus: Visualisation and modeling
ISMAR Arsenale Tesa 104, Castello 2737/F
9:00-10:30 Visual communication of data and information.
   Michele Mauri (Design Department, Politecnico di Milano.)
10:30-11:00 coffee break
11:00-12:30 Computational analysis and the social sciences: an interdisciplinary dialogue.
   Sven Banisch (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig) and Petter Tornberg (Univ of Amsterdam)
12:30-14:00 lunch break
14:00-18:00 Group Work: Graphics and modeling tools applied in each case study (guided by tutors)
18:00-19:30 Conflict, protest, and democratization.
   Kristian Gleditsch (Department of Government, University of Essex.)
20:30 Social dinner at the Lido, restaurant Pachuko

Friday 20 September 2019. Focus: Facilitation
ISMAR Arsenale Tesa 104, Castello 2737/F
9:00-10:30 Narrative drives.
   Oscar Vilarroya (Department of psychiatry, Autonomous University of Barcelona)
10:30-11:00 coffee break
11:00-12:30 Collaborative argumentation.
   Michael Baker (CNRS Telecom Paris Tech, Paris.)
12:30-14:00 lunch break
14:00-16:00 Presentation of results from the working groups
16:00-16:30 Concluding session and presentation of awards
16:30-17:30 Informal discussion and farewell reception
17:45-19:00 (optional) Visit to the Exhibition La Pelle by Luc Tuymans, Palazzo Grassi.