{"id":6317,"date":"2019-05-24T09:01:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T00:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/?p=6317"},"modified":"2019-05-24T17:19:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T08:19:31","slug":"__trashed-2-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/news-en\/2019\/05\/24\/6317\/","title":{"rendered":"WIAS Visiting Researcher Seminar :  &#8220;Locating and Analyzing Virtual Communities on the World Wide Web: Applications for Social Sciences&#8221; (June 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>WIAS Visiting Researcher Seminar:<br \/>\n&#8220;Locating and Analyzing Virtual Communities on the World Wide Web: Applications for Social Sciences&#8221;\u00a0 (June 4)<\/h4>\n<h5>\u8b1b\u6f14\u8005 \/ Speaker<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/other-en\/2019\/05\/20\/6287\/\">CHAI, Sun-Ki<\/a> \uff08Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Hawaii\uff09<\/p>\n<h5>\u65e5\u3000\u6642 \/ Date &amp; Time<\/h5>\n<p>Tuesday, 4 June 2019, 10:40 \u2013 12:10<\/p>\n<h5>\u4f1a\u3000\u5834 \/ Venue<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/access\/waseda-campus\">Conference room #1 on the 10th floor, Building #3, Waseda University<\/a><\/p>\n<h5>\u4e3b\u3000\u65e8 \/ Outline<\/h5>\n<p>&#8220;Locating and Analyzing Virtual Communities on the World Wide Web: Applications for Social Sciences&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.\u00a0 It is the basis for a patent, &#8220;Software Agent for Locating and Analyzing Virtual Communities on the World Wide Web.&#8221;\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<h5>\u5bfe\u3000\u8c61 \/ Prospected Audience<\/h5>\n<p>Faculty and staff members of a university, grad students, undergraduates, the general public<\/p>\n<h5>\u4e3b\u3000\u50ac \/ Organizer<\/h5>\n<p>Waseda Institute of Political Economy, Waseda University<br \/>\nContact: KOHNO, Masaru (Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University) : kohno@waseda.jp<\/p>\n<h5>\u5171\u3000\u50ac \/ Co-organizer<\/h5>\n<p>Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University<br \/>\nPositive\/Empirical Analysis of Political Economy, Waseda University<\/p>\n<h5>\u7533\u8fbc\u307f \/ Registration<\/h5>\n<p>Free of charge. Please come to the event venue directly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WIAS Visiting Researcher Seminar: &#8220;Locating and Analyzing Virtual Communities on the World Wide Web: App [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[82,94,73],"class_list":["post-6317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-events-en","tag-general-en","tag-research-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6320,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317\/revisions\/6320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}