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“Nothing About Us Without Us”:… duration 47 minutes 42 seconds “Nothing About Us Without Us”:… “Nothing About Us Without Us”: Ukrainian Sex Worker Politics with Dafna Rachok	“Nothing About Us Without Us”: Ukrainian Sex Worker Politics with Dafna Rachok Sex work provides a perfect example to ponder the distinctions between formal and informal politics and explore the relationships of money, intimacy, and authenticity. Building on the ethnographic… productivity during pandemic spark feminism workers ukraine lot organization hiv instance participants politics activity worker issue question talk money things clients pandemic groups government model From Allison Van 51 plays 0
Working with an Academic Editor with Melissa Van… duration 28 minutes 23 seconds Working with an Academic Editor with Melissa Van… Working with an Academic Editor with Melissa Van - Productivity During Pandemic	Working with an Academic Editor with Melissa Van - Productivity During Pandemic Are you undertaking a new writing project? Maybe looking for some help writing a book or important manuscript? Working with an academic editor can help you nail a project and improve your writing,… cress academic editor pandemic social sciences (social issues) From Allison Van 26 plays 0
Word Embeddings for Social Science with Dr. Dong… duration 58 minutes 6 seconds Word Embeddings for Social Science with Dr. Dong… Word Embeddings for Social Science with Dr. Dong Nguyen – Spark Talks	Word Embeddings for Social Science with Dr. Dong Nguyen – Spark Talks Natural Language Processing (NLP) has changed radically with the emergence of neural network approaches that learn to represent words, sentences, and other linguistic units as dense real-valued… word words embeddings model language vector space kind vectors question meaning context lot representations questions idea study documents gender examples nguyen allison maggie cat From Allison Van 28 plays 0
Wins and Losses: Measuring Protest Effects with… duration 56 minutes 27 seconds Wins and Losses: Measuring Protest Effects with… Wins and Losses: Measuring Protest Effects with Dr. Kimberly Turner – Spark Talks	Wins and Losses: Measuring Protest Effects with Dr. Kimberly Turner – Spark Talks How can we comparatively assess the “successfulness” of mass protests? I develop an expanded typology of protest outcomes to score protest campaigns on their effectiveness in… protests concessions success movements outcomes movement protest sort kind question costs scores gains measure scholars demonstrators goal definition campaigns government From Allison Van 15 plays 0
White Supremacy and Statistical Regression Models… duration 1 hour 35 minutes White Supremacy and Statistical Regression Models… White Supremacy and Statistical Regression Models with Dr. Mosi Adesina Ifatunji – Identity In Research	White Supremacy and Statistical Regression Models with Dr. Mosi Adesina Ifatunji – Identity In Research Dr. Ifatunji's talk and workshop will focus on the theoretical and practical considerations for using public datasets such as census data or large-scale opinion surveys to measure identity,… From Allison Van 16 plays 0
What We Do at Spark with Michelle Dion –… duration 13 minutes 38 seconds What We Do at Spark with Michelle Dion –… What We Do at Spark with Michelle Dion – Spark Open House	What We Do at Spark with Michelle Dion – Spark Open House In this short video, Michelle Dion, Academic Director of Spark outlines what Spark: a centre for social research innovation is about and how we support social researchers and community leaders. spark michelle dion cress things mcmaster methods types researchers series training space consultation interviews pandemic challenges questions focus place hall wilson infrastructure tools From Allison Van 11 plays 0
What to Expect in Grad School with Allison Van… duration 47 minutes 28 seconds What to Expect in Grad School with Allison Van… What to Expect in Grad School with Allison Van – Spark Talks	What to Expect in Grad School with Allison Van – Spark Talks Starting graduate school? No matter what program or school you're in, this video will help you orient yourself to this big change. Allison Van will talk about how grad school is different from… lot things methods thing graduate spark students mcmaster class couple sort conversation resources place readings kind conversations tools thoughts grad allison talk From Allison Van 26 plays 0
We All Make Mistakes: Stories of Research Gone… duration 52 minutes 7 seconds We All Make Mistakes: Stories of Research Gone… We All Make Mistakes: Stories of Research Gone Wrong with Akacia Propst and Brianne Morgan	We All Make Mistakes: Stories of Research Gone Wrong with Akacia Propst and Brianne Morgan Co-founders of the science communication project and science blog "The Null Hypothesis"— our project centers around demystifying scientific research - what it looks like behind the… science things process communication stories researchers students lot studies bit thing trust story conference graduate taylor conversations projects question uncertainty From Allison Van 24 plays 0
Virtually Anonymous: Conducting Online Interviews… duration 31 minutes 16 seconds Virtually Anonymous: Conducting Online Interviews… Virtually Anonymous: Conducting Online Interviews with Anonymous Participants with Andrey Kasimov - Productivity during Pandemic	Virtually Anonymous: Conducting Online Interviews with Anonymous Participants with Andrey Kasimov - Productivity during Pandemic In this Productivity During Pandemic talk, PhD sutdent Andrey Kasimov shares tips and insights gained from conducting online interviews with anonymous participants belonging to reactionary online… cress andrey kasimov social sciences (social issues) allison van michelle dion anonymous research interviews interview lot participants kind person questions skype consent ethics communities stuff population connection recruitment problem participant ideas question content From Allison Van 45 plays 0
Using Digital Ethnography To Understand Online… duration 18 minutes 8 seconds Using Digital Ethnography To Understand Online… Using Digital Ethnography To Understand Online Communities with Astara van der Jaght — Open House	Using Digital Ethnography To Understand Online Communities with Astara van der Jaght — Open House In this video Astara van der Jagt discusses the pandemic-friendly research method of digital ethnography and how researchers across disciplines can apply it to understand online communities and… astara van der jagt spark cress ethnography digital race ethnographer ethnographers dot participants variety methods researchers variation experience participant environment field pandemic history ways challenge things journals From Allison Van 30 plays 0
Turning critique into promise: How situationalism… duration 51 minutes 29 seconds Turning critique into promise: How situationalism… Turning critique into promise: How situationalism can aid qualitative interviewing with Anders Vassenden and Marte Mangset	Turning critique into promise: How situationalism can aid qualitative interviewing with Anders Vassenden and Marte Mangset In their talk, Vassenden and Mangset answer to a recent interactionist/situationist critique of qualitative interviews. This critique holds that because interviews are social encounters with… interviews interview situation things class questions norms problem situations interviewer lot study ethnography findings studies bit method meaning sociology bureaucrats spark talks innovation From Allison Van 5 plays 0 Usage Rights CC0
Truth and Consequences: How Scientists think… duration 53 minutes 24 seconds Truth and Consequences: How Scientists think… Truth and Consequences: How Scientists think about Error and Fraud in Research with Dr. Justin Esarey	Truth and Consequences: How Scientists think about Error and Fraud in Research with Dr. Justin Esarey To err is human, but to issue a meaningful correction or retraction is relatively rare in scientific publishing. In this joint project with Daniel Bischof and Michelle Dion, we ask: why? This… cress michelle dion allison van research researcher justin esarey wake university errors truth political science stem social sciences (social issues) political methodology corrections things retractions science fraud cases lot consequences forest professor journal paper study wansink explanations publications brian air methodology error journals point thing conclusions respondents response question difference scientists mistake peer From Allison Van 18 plays 0
Transparency and Reproducibility: Doing Open… duration 54 minutes 24 seconds Transparency and Reproducibility: Doing Open… Transparency and Reproducibility: Doing Open Quantitative Social Science with Jeremy Freese	Transparency and Reproducibility: Doing Open Quantitative Social Science with Jeremy Freese Increasing the transparency and reproducibility of scientific research has received considerable attention over the past decade. Takeup of this call has varied considerably over the social sciences,… science things lot thing idea ways reproducibility survey findings paper jeremy folder replication practices kind kinds movement sheep issue ideas From Allison Van 13 plays 0
Transparency and Positionality in Qualitative… duration 47 minutes 5 seconds Transparency and Positionality in Qualitative… Transparency and Positionality in Qualitative Team Coding with Dr. Victoria Reyes – Spark Talks	Transparency and Positionality in Qualitative Team Coding with Dr. Victoria Reyes – Spark Talks Transparency is all the rage in the social sciences. Yet, how exactly transparency can be pursued in qualitative research is very much still up for debate, especially when issues around… kind codes things process transparency lot team paper database question difference science analysis codebook assistants coding times decisions researchers positionality From Allison Van 74 plays 0
The Trump Election and Attitudes toward the… duration 44 minutes 24 seconds The Trump Election and Attitudes toward the… The Trump Election and Attitudes toward the United States in Latin America with Dr. Giancarlo Visconti and Dr. Regina Bateson – Spark Talks	The Trump Election and Attitudes toward the United States in Latin America with Dr. Giancarlo Visconti and Dr. Regina Bateson – Spark Talks Did the election of Donald Trump have an immediate effect on trust in the US government in Latin America? Leveraging the timing of the field implementation of the 2016 wave of the… election paper effect bandwidth survey countries treatment trust bit trump lot things cutoff november outcome government kind assumption placebo score point question students From Allison Van 12 plays 0
The Social Autopsy with Dr. Stefan Timmermans… duration 47 minutes 11 seconds The Social Autopsy with Dr. Stefan Timmermans… The Social Autopsy with Dr. Stefan Timmermans – Spark Talks	The Social Autopsy with Dr. Stefan Timmermans – Spark Talks The social autopsy takes the death of a set of individuals as its starting point and then critically and systematically examines social and political conditions to explain these deaths and… autopsy kind deaths factors debt death fire disease pathologists mechanisms classifications fact story kinds neighborhoods narrative stefan allison —and van bit timmermans lot —i From Allison Van 19 plays 0
The Future of Machine Learning is Qualitative… duration 46 minutes 16 seconds The Future of Machine Learning is Qualitative… The Future of Machine Learning is Qualitative with Dr. Laura K. Nelson – Spark Talk	The Future of Machine Learning is Qualitative with Dr. Laura K. Nelson – Spark Talk In this talk, Dr. Nelson will discuss the alignment between machine learning and qualitative methods. Dr. Nelson will illustrate this alignment by using machine learning, specifically word… machine learning men kind intersectionality lot science word methods vector power model words method culture economy categories statistics identities century scientists From Allison Van 11 plays 0
The Emotional Piano Project with Dr. Michael… duration 47 minutes 3 seconds The Emotional Piano Project with Dr. Michael… The Emotional Piano Project with Dr. Michael Schutz – Spark Talks	The Emotional Piano Project with Dr. Michael Schutz – Spark Talks The quest to understand music’s emotional power has long fascinated philosophers and acousticians —not to mention the composers, performers and educators entrusted with its transmission. … pieces lot things question cues xylophone pitch ways analysis kind thing psychology mode modality kinds questions emotion rate bach bit height marimba From Allison Van 44 plays 0
The "Augmented" Social Scientist: Using… duration 42 minutes 49 seconds The "Augmented" Social Scientist: Using… The "Augmented" Social Scientist: Using Sequential Transfer Learning to Annotate Millions of Texts with Human-Level Accuracy with Salomé Do	The "Augmented" Social Scientist: Using Sequential Transfer Learning to Annotate Millions of Texts with Human-Level Accuracy with Salomé Do The talk will present an automated content analysis method based on supervised machine learning (SML) and recent advances in transfer learning. The method will be presented through a case study on… model analysis text content articles performance record task lot question training bit workers framing models train tasks language talk sentences From Allison Van 3 plays 0 Usage Rights CC0
Technology Education for Women Transitioning From… duration 51 minutes 50 seconds Technology Education for Women Transitioning From… Technology Education for Women Transitioning From Incarceration with Dr. Hyunjin Seo - Productivity during Pandemic	Technology Education for Women Transitioning From Incarceration with Dr. Hyunjin Seo - Productivity during Pandemic Dr. Hyunjin Seo leads technology education and information literacy workshops to marginalized groups including formerly incarcerated women now seeking to enter the workforce. She will be talking… cress michelle dion allison van hyunjin seo social sciences (social issues) incarcerated incarceration university of kansas research speaker series lot participants partners programs organizations aspects computers team students populations groups drug computer programming scholars concerns things kind challenges access From Allison Van 6 plays 0
Systemic Social Observation of Civil Society with… duration 49 minutes 32 seconds Systemic Social Observation of Civil Society with… Systemic Social Observation of Civil Society with Dr. Matthew Baggetta – Spark Talks	Systemic Social Observation of Civil Society with Dr. Matthew Baggetta – Spark Talks What happens inside meetings, events, and activities held by civil society organizations—and how often do those internal dynamics occur? I answer these questions using a new adaptation of… organizations things organization kinds convenings study society sort observation observers lot dynamics spaces technique bit space field thing kind survey place questions From Allison Van 68 plays 0
Survey Pre-Testing: Web Probes and Cognitive… duration 59 minutes 53 seconds Survey Pre-Testing: Web Probes and Cognitive… Survey Pre-Testing: Web Probes and Cognitive Interviewing with Dr. Cornelia Neuert – Spark Talks	Survey Pre-Testing: Web Probes and Cognitive Interviewing with Dr. Cornelia Neuert – Spark Talks Participants will learn about the method of cognitive interviewing to pretest survey questions. I will introduce the general goals of pretesting and key aspects of cognitive interviewing. Then we… question respondents questions probes response probe survey answer face interviewing term questionnaire interviews responses study interviewer problems quality respondent answers From Allison Van 17 plays 0
Social Science Methods in Meta Research with Dr.… duration 59 minutes 6 seconds Social Science Methods in Meta Research with Dr.… Social Science Methods in Meta Research with Dr. Zacharias Maniadis	Social Science Methods in Meta Research with Dr. Zacharias Maniadis Meta-research is a new discipline that assesses the quality of research for society.  A new area of interest is how reproducible social interventions translate to efficacious public policy. Social… science economics bit interventions literature tools metal scale intervention studies role reproducibility problem sciences incentives instance things study disciplines hypothesis allison From Allison Van 15 plays 0
So, you want to make a podcast? with Vinita… duration 53 minutes 31 seconds So, you want to make a podcast? with Vinita… So, you want to make a podcast? with Vinita Srivastava	So, you want to make a podcast? with Vinita Srivastava Podcasting is one way a researcher/academic can make their work accessible to mainstream audiences outside of their fields of study. It is also a way of meeting a like-minded community.  This… podcast idea conversation episodes things podcasts lot thing bit kind episode pitch scholars audience guys land canada questions ideas scholar From Allison Van 16 plays 0