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WIAS Visiting Researcher Seminar : “Locating and Analyzing Virtual Communities on the World Wide Web: Applications for Social Sciences” (June 4)

WIAS Visiting Researcher Seminar:
“Locating and Analyzing Virtual Communities on the World Wide Web: Applications for Social Sciences”  (June 4)

講演者 / Speaker

CHAI, Sun-Ki (Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Hawaii)

日 時 / Date & Time

Tuesday, 4 June 2019, 10:40 – 12:10

会 場 / Venue

Conference room #1 on the 10th floor, Building #3, Waseda University

主 旨 / Outline

“Locating and Analyzing Virtual Communities on the World Wide Web: Applications for Social Sciences”

This presentation introduces CLASSIC, a software tool which allows non-expert users to locate virtual communities on the World Wide Web, as well as identifying the preferences and beliefs and predicting the behavior of these communities.  It is the basis for a patent, “Software Agent for Locating and Analyzing Virtual Communities on the World Wide Web.”  The purpose of the presentation is three-hold. First, Professor Chai will discuss the motivation that led to this innovation. Second, he will discuss what this tool does and how it can be used for a variety of research purposes in the social sciences. Third, he will explain how this tool works, and its basis social network theories, content analysis, and theories of rational choice.

対 象 / Prospected Audience

Faculty and staff members of a university, grad students, undergraduates, the general public

主 催 / Organizer

Waseda Institute of Political Economy, Waseda University
Contact: KOHNO, Masaru (Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University) : [email protected]

共 催 / Co-organizer

Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University
Positive/Empirical Analysis of Political Economy, Waseda University

申込み / Registration

Free of charge. Please come to the event venue directly.

Dates
  • 0604

    TUE
    2019

Place

Conference room #1 on the 10th floor, Building #3, Waseda University

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