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Social Science in the Age of Social Media

Event date: Monday, September 26
Location: Forum, Hughes-Trigg Theater
Time: 11:45 a.m.- 1:00 p.m.

Social Science in the Age of Social Media. Join Kieran Healy, Associate Professor of Sociology at Duke University as he lectures on the role of social media platforms in academic disciplines. The talk will discuss the character of “latently public” work resulting from social media (a situation where academics unselfconsciously do some part of their work in public), the opportunities and difficulties it creates for people, the forms it takes across disciplines, and the efforts of universities to measure and capture its presumed value. This event is part of the semester-long series, Data is Made Up of Stories: University-wide Futures from the Digital Humanities, sponsored by the DCII’s Ph.D. Fellows Program and the Dedman College Dean’s Office. For more information visit http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/DCII/Events.dcii_speaker_healy_email