PhD defence on "Research in the Era of Social Media"

SODAS PhD student Yangliu Fan will defend her dissertation "Research in the Era of Social Media: Communities, Methodologies & Author Trajectories" on Friday 24th February 

Title: RESEARCH IN THE ERA OF SOCIAL MEDIA: COMMUNITIES, METHODOLOGIES & AUTHOR TRAJECTORIES
Date: 24 February at 14-18 CET 

Yangliu Fan's thesis explores the scientific system using tools from network science and natural language processing, with a specific focus on the social media data-based research community. By analyzing a curated dataset of 12,732 research articles using social media data, it sheds new light on the changes in intellectual structures, advancements in methodology, and the evolution of career trajectories. The findings of this thesis provide new insights into the impact of big social data on science and science studies. Besides, the thesis offers novel methods for enhancing bibliometric cluster analysis, interdisciplinarity analysis, method detection, and author mobility analysis.

The defence takes place in CSS 35.01.05 and is followed by a reception in CSS 1.1.12.

Online participation is possible via zoom: https://ucph-ku.zoom.us/j/65418564599?pwd=M0p5Y2djVjcya0NKYVRlcFQxNEtNdz09 
(passcode: 182408).