Coordination of special issue I Revista Dígitos, Universidad de Valencia

This monograph section, available in English and Spanish, reunites articles addressing research experiments, protocols and knowledge creation through data sprints. It explores and unpacks sprints as an interdisciplinary collaborative space while presenting data sprints’ purpose, advantages and concrete results for different fields of study. This collection builds on research developed for, in and after data sprints. The articles expose the potentials and challenges of data sprints for teaching-learning digital methods research and as reflective devices for producing scientific knowledge yet for methods and tools creation.

Omena, J.J., Gobbo, B., Cabo-Orón, Flores, AMM.(2022) The Data Sprint Approach to Research: Experiments, Protocols and Knowledge. Revista Dígitos 8th Special Issue. https://revistadigitos.com/index.php/digitos/issue/view/10

Omena, J.J., Gobbo, B., Cabo-Orón, Flores, AMM. (2022). El método Data Sprint para investigar: Experimentos, protocolos y conocimiento. Revista Dígitos 8th Special Issue. https://revistadigitos.com/index.php/digitos/issue/viewIssue/10/24

Opening article I What are data sprints for?

Omena, J. J.; Cano-Orón, L.; Gobbo, B. & Flores, A. M. (2022). What are data sprints for?. Dígitos. Revista de Comunicación Digital, 8: 9-30. DOI: 10.7203/drdcd.v1i8.253

PhD Thesis I Digital Methods and Technicity-of-the-Mediums

Omena, J.J.(2021). Digital Methods and Technicity-of-the-Mediums. From Regimes of Functioning to Digital Research [Doctoral Dissertation, Universidade Nova de Lisboa]. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/127961

Book I Métodos Digitais: Teoria-Prática-Crítica

Omena, J.J.(ed.) (2019). Métodos Digitais: Teoria-Prática-Crítica. Lisboa: ICNOVA. ISBN: 978‐972‐9347‐34‐4

Book Chapters & Encyclopedia Entries

Omena, J. J. (2022). “Technicity-of-the-mediums”. In Elgar Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. Retrieved Nov 23, 2022, from https://www.elgaronline.com/view/book/9781800374263/b-9781800374263.technicity.mediums.omena.xml

Omena, J. J. (2022). “Hashtag politics”. In Elgar Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. Retrieved Nov 23, 2022, from https://www.elgaronline.com/view/book/9781800374263/b-9781800374263.hashtag.politics.omena.xml

Omena, J.J. (2019). Introdução: O que são Métodos Digitais? In: Métodos Digitais: Teoria-Prática-Crítica, edited by Janna Joceli Omena. Lisboa: ICNOVA. ISBN: 978‐972‐9347‐34‐4

Omena, J.J. & Amaral, I. (2019). Sistema de leitura de redes digitais multiplataforma. In: Métodos Digitais: Teoria-Prática-Crítica, edited by Janna Joceli Omena. Lisboa: ICNOVA. ISBN: 978‐972‐9347‐34‐4

Omena, J.J.; Rosa, J.M.; Baldi, V. (2017). Atravessando a economia da atenção e dos likes. A Política das Plataformas Digitais. Cibercultura : Circum-navegações em redes transculturais de conhecimento, arquivos e pensamento, edited by Helena Pires, Manuel Curado, Fábio Ribeiro & Pedro Andrade). Edições Húmos:Minho, Portugal. ISBN: 978-989-755-282-3.

Omena, J.J. (2016). Social Media Research: New Methods, Opportunities and Challenges. In Tecnologias Culturais e Artes do Media [e-book], edited by Maria Teresa Cruz, Maria Augusta Babo and José Gomes Pinto, Coleção Cultura, Media e Artes, n.4. Lisboa: CECL/UnYleYa, ISBN 9789899850361.

Publications

Rogers, R., & Omena, J. J. (Academics). (2023). Analysing meme collections with the computer vision network approach [Video]. Sage Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529627756 (or https://methods.sagepub.com/video/srmpromo/RcT432/analysing-meme-collections-with-the-computer-vision-network-approach)

Omena, J. J., Currie, M. (Ed.), (2022). Collecting Data Using APIs Part 1: How to Understand APIs and Navigating API Documentation [How to Guide]. SAGE Research Methods: Doing Research Online. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529611441 https://methods.sagepub.com/how-to-guide/collecting-data-apis-part-1-understand-apis-navigating-api

Omena, J. J., Currie, M. (Ed.), (2022). Collecting Data Using APIs Part 2: How to Communicate With and Access APIs [How to Guide]. SAGE Research Methods: Doing Research Online. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529611458 https://methods.sagepub.com/how-to-guide/collecting-data-apis-part-2-how-to-communicate-access-apis

Giorgi, G., Rogers, R., & Omena, J. J., (2022). How to Make Meme Collections [How to Guide]. SAGE Research Methods: Doing Research Online. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529611267 https://methods.sagepub.com/how-to-guide/how-to-make-meme-collections

Omena, J. J.; Cano-Orón, L.; Gobbo, B. & Flores, A. M. (2022). What are data sprints for?. Dígitos. Revista de Comunicación Digital, 8: 9-30. DOI: 10.7203/drdcd.v1i8.253

Omena, J. J., Elena , P., Gobbo, B. ., & Jason , C. (2021). The Potentials of Google Vision API-based Networks to Study Natively Digital Images. Diseña, (19), Article.1. https://doi.org/10.7764/disena.19.Article.1

Omena, J. J., Pilipets, E., Gobbo, B., & Chao, J. (2021). El potencial de las redes basadas en la API Google Vision para el estudio de imágenes digitales nativas. Diseña, (19), Article.1. https://doi.org/10.7764/disena.19.Article.

Omena, J. J., Rabello, E. T., & Mintz, A. G. (2020). Digital Methods for Hashtag Engagement Research. Social Media + Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120940697

Silva, T., Mintz, A., Omena, J. J., Gobbo, B., Oliveira, T., Takamitsu, H., Pilipets, E., & Azhar, H. (2020). APIs de Visão Computacional: investigando mediações algorítmicas a partir de estudo de bancos de imagens. Logos, 27(1). doi:https://doi.org/10.12957/logos.2020.51523

Omena, J. J., & Granado, A. (2020). Call into the platform! Merging Platform Grammatisation and Practical knowledge to study digital networks. Journal ICONO14, 18(1), 89-122. https://doi.org/10.7195/ri14.v18i1.1436

Rosa, J. M., Omena, J. J., e Cardoso, D. (2018). Watchdogs in the Social Network: A Polarized Perception?. Observatório (OBS*) 12 (5), Special issue “As Formas Contemporâneas dos Conflitos e das Apostas Digitais, DOI: 10.15847/obsOBS12520181367

Warren Pearce, Suay M. Özkula, Amanda K. Greene, Lauren Teeling, Jennifer S. Bansard, Janna Joceli Omena & Elaine Teixeira Rabello (2018): Visual cross-platform analysis: digital methods to research social media images, Information, Communication & Society, DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2018.1486871

Omena, J. J. e Rosa, J. M (2017). 15 de Março: “o Brasil foi pra rua” (de novo!). Estudos dos protestos na web e redes sociais. In Carlos Camponez, Bruno Araújo et al. (editors), Comunicação e Transformações Sociais, Vol II: Comunicação Política, Comunicação Organizacional e Institucional e Cultura Visual (Atas do IX Congresso da SopCom), pp. 51-74, Coimbra: SopCom. ISBN 978-989-99840-1-1

Rosa, J. M. and Omena, J. J. (2017). «Nós na Rede. Conexão e Participação em Dois Grupos do Facebook a partir dos Digital Methods. In Carlos Camponez, Bruno Araújo et al. (editors), Comunicação e Transformações Sociais, Vol I: Ciência da Informação e Comunicação e Educação (Atas do IX Congresso da SopCom), pp. 81-98. Coimbra: SopCom. ISBN 978-989-99840-0-4

Omena, J.J. and Rosa, J. (2015). Estudos no Facebook em Portugal: Revisão Sistemática dos Métodos de Investigação. Communication Studies. Special Issue: Advanced Methodologies in Communication Studies, n.18. http://www.ec.ubi.pt/ec/19/pdf/ec_19.pdf

Omena, J.J. and Melo, J. (2008). Realidade moderna: reflexos no comportamento humano – Lumen (Recife), Brazil, v.17, 69

Conferences

Omena, J.J.; Lobo, T.; Kerche, F.; Tucci, G..; Keulenaar & Bitencourt, E. (2022, October 6-7, forthcoming). Methods’ challenges for studying political propaganda through (bolso)bots’ ecologies and visualities. ECREA online pre-conference Workshop “Visual Politics and Protest”.

Omena, J.J. (2022, September 16, forthcoming). O Futuro da Pesquisa em Plataformas de Redes Sociais (round table).Networks of Political Participation in Facebook Colloquium.

Omena, J.J. (2022, September 16). Instagram’s fight against bots, but they won’t go away. Networks of Political Participation in Facebook Colloquium.

Omena, J.J. and Granado, A. (2021). The visual history of Portuguese Universities on Facebook. 8º ECREA Online Conference 2021, Visual Cultures section.

Pilipets, E. and Omena, J.J. (2021) Stick and Flow: A critical framework for investigating bot engagement on social media. 8º ECREA Online Conference 2021, Digital Culture and Communication section.

Mintz, A.; Silva, T.; Gobbo, B.; Pilipets, E.; Azhar, H.; Takamitsu, H.; Omena, J.J.; Oliveira, T. (2019). APIs e visão computacional: investigando mediações algorítimas a partir de estudo de banco de imagens. VIII Simpósio Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia, 15 a 17 de Agosto, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. [abstract in Portuguese]

Omena, J.J.; Mintz, A.; Rabello, E. (2018). Hashtags are not the whole message: Approaching Hashtag Engagement Research. Instagram Conference 2018 – Studying Instagram beyond selfies. Middlesex University, 1 June 2018, London

Flores, A.M.; Omena J.J.; Caetano, E.; Ruiz, C. (2018). Exploring Trends for Journalism on YouTube. The production and consumption of 360º videos in Brazil. IV Encontro Jovens Investigadores – A investigação em Ciências da Comunicação na era Digital, 11 e 12 de outubro 2018, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Omena, J.J. (2017). Why look at Social Media APIs? Potential scenarios for Instagram-based research. ECREA Digital Culture and Communication Section Conference. Digital Culture meets data: Critical Approaches. University of Brighton, 6-7 November 2017.

Granado, A. and Omena, J.J. (2017). As Universidades Portuguesas no Facebook. SciCom PT 2017 – Objectos da Ciência. Museu da Ciência da Universidade de Coimbra, 12-13 October, Portugal.

Omena, J.J. (2016). Social Media Technicity: What to Look for in APIs? [poster]. Presented at UT Austin / Portugal Annual Conference 2016, 23-24 May, Lisbon, and Ciência 2016 – Science and Technology in Portugal Meeting, 4-6 July, Lisboa Congress Center.

Omena, J.J. and Rosa, J. (2015). 15 de Março: “o Brasil foi pra rua” (de novo!). Estudos dos protestos na web e redes sociais. IX SopCom Congress, Coimbra-PT, 12-14 November 2015.

Rosa, J. and Omena, J.J. (2015). Nós na rede: Conexão e Participação em Dois Grupos do Facebook a partir dos Digital Methods. SopCom Congress, Coimbra-PT, 12-14 November 2015

Omena, J.J.; Rosa, J. (2015). Visualising and Measuring Interactivity in Social Media: Brazilian´s 2013 protests on Facebook. From Multitude to Crowds in Social Movements – publics, gatherings, networks and media in the 21th century, 26-27 January 2015, Lisbon. An International Conference hosted by the Catholic University of Portugal in co-organization with CECC/CECL

Omena, J.J. (2014). Social Media Research: New Methods, Opportunities and Challenges. Cultural Technologies and Media Arts Conference, Nov 2013-Jan 2014, Universidade Nova de Lisboa – FCSH and Goethe-Institute, Lisbon (main speakers: Bernhard Siegert, Sybille Krämer and Peter Weibel).

Talks

Omena, J.J. & Rogers, R. (2023, February 10). Analysing image collections with the computer vision network approach. Online-Workshop, Images in Social Media Research: Digital Tools and Methodological Challenges. Dresden University of Technology (TUD), Germany.

Omena, J.J. (2022, June 8). Analysing meme collections with the computer vision network approach . Conference on Visual Methodologies for studying online image collections. Centre of Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM), Warwick University, UK. [slides]

Omena, J.J. (2022, January 31). A technicity perspective to the practice of digital methods. 2022 SMART Data Sprint. NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal.[slides]

Omena, J.J. (2022, January 26). Making methods with vision APIs, online data and network building (lessons learnt). CAIS Kolloquium.Center for Advanced Internet Studies, Bochum, Germany.[slides]

Omena, J.J. (2021, September 23). Estudos sobre plataformização mediante a três pilares dos métodos digitais. (Opening keynote). Seminário Internacional Ecologia de Mídia no Contexto da Plataformização. (Evento virtual). Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brasil. [slides]

Omena, J.J. (2021, May 21). Unpacking Digital Methods. ICNOVA Online Conference.

Omena, J.J. (2021, March 17). Computer Vision Networks. Developing digital visual methods for social and medium research. CAIS Colloquium. Center for Advanced Internet Studies, Bochum, Germany. [slides]

Omena, J.J. & Pilipets, E. (2020, August 26). Stick & Flow: a critical framework for investigating bot engagement on social media. CAIS Colloquium. Center for Advanced Internet Studies, Bochum, Germany. Presentation of CAIS Working Group research proposal. [slides]

Omena, J.J. (2020, June 24). How to read computer vision based-networks? Repurposing machine learning to social media research. Online research seminar hosted by STeMiS and the Digital Society Network, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom. [slides]

Omena, J.J. (2020, January 27). Unpacking Digital Methods. (short talk) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Digital Media Winter Institute – SMART Data Sprint 2020, “Digital Methods: Theory-Practice-Critique”, Lisboa, Portugal. [slides]

Omena, J.J. (2019, November 22). Unpacking Digital Methods. Play with Data Conference, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. [slides]

Omena, J.J. (2019, October 11) Computer Vision & Digital Networks for Bot Engagement Studies. Reboot – Digital Arts and New Media Festival, 10 – 13 October, Palácio Baldaya, Lisbon, Portugal.

Omena, J.J. & Pilipets, E. (2019, July 24). Networks, Hashtags, Memes: A Quali-Quantitative Approach for Exploring Social Media Engagement. (workshop) Center of Advanced Internet Studies. Bochum, Germany. [slides]

Omena, J.J. (2019, April 4). A lógica de funcionamento da plataformas digitais. 7ª Semana de Comunicação Social – O problema da Informação, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, 1-5 de Abril, 2019. Setúbal, Portugal. [slides]

Omena, J.J. (2019, January 28). How to read cross-platform digital networks? (Short talk ) Digital Media Winter Institute 2019 / SMART Data Sprint 2018: Beyond Visible Engagement, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, NOVA FSCH (Faculty of Human and Social Science), 28 January to 1 February 2018, Lisbon, Portugal. [slides]

Omena, J.J. (2018, November 29). Social media technicity & cross-platform digital networks. UT Austin I Portugal Doctoral Symposium 2018, November 29-30, Museu das Comunicações, Lisboa – Portugal. [program] [FB post]

Omena, J.J. (2018, November 21). Social Media Research for natively digital objects and methods. Masterclass for professors and researchers from Escola Superior de Comunicação Social, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa.

Omena, J.J. (2018, October 5). Social media technicity & cross-platform digital networks. TIPI Brown Bag Luncheon. University of Texas – School of Communication, at Austin, USA.

Omena, J.J. (2018, April 26). The black market of social media engagement: Botted Accounts on Instagram. Masterclass to undergraduate students of Computer Engineering at NOVA FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. [Instagram ] > read also the bots’ comments!]

Omena, J.J. (2018, April 5). Métodos Digitais. MasterClass Multimédia, Instituto Superior Miguel Torga, Coimbra, Portugal. [podcast]

Omena, J.J. (2018, January 29). The Grammars of Social Media: thinking platform data under the modes of technicity. (Short talk ) Digital Media Winter Institute 2018 / SMART Data Sprint 2018: Interpreters of Platform Data, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, NOVA FSCH (Faculty of Human and Social Science), 29 January to 2 February 2018, Lisbon, Portugal. [slides]

Rosa, J.M.; Omena, J.J. and Cardoso, D. (2017). Watchdogs nas Redes Sociais: Uma Percepção Polarizada? Colóquio Targeting, Fake News e Ciberpopulismos: Entre Algoritmos e Cibercultura. Universidade de Aveiro, 18 Outubro 2017, Aveiro, Portugal.

Omena, J.J. (2017, January 23). Approaches of Data Analysis: Networks Generated through Social Media. (Short talk) SMART Data Sprint 2017: What is the data journalism debate on social media?, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, NOVA FSCH (Faculty of Human and Social Science), 23-27 January, Lisbon, Portugal. [slides]

Omena, J.J. (2016, November 22). Plataformas de Redes Sociais: Extração e Análise de Dados. Lecture at Universidade de Lisboa in the Faculdade de Motricidade Humana (FMH), to master students in Sport Management, Cruz Quebrada, Portugal. [slides]

Omena, J.J. (2016, October 19). Social Media Technicity. Affordances, Politics and Digital Methods. (Short talk) Digital Media Doctoral Symposium in Future Places Festival at UPTEC PINC auditorium, Porto, Portugal. [slides]

Omena, J.J. (2015, March 11). Digital Methods on social media platforms: Brazilian´s 2013 protests on Facebook. Open Lecture at Instituto Superior Técnico to master students in Urban Sociology, Lisbon, Portugal. [slides]

Omena, J.J. (2015, April 23). Digital Methods on social media platforms: Brazilian´s 2013 protests on Facebook. Lecture at Universidade Nova de Lisboa to master students in Communication (FSCH- Faculty of Human and Social Science), Lisbon, Portugal. [slides]

Data Sprints’ Reports

2022

Let’s Play War
Inside 4chan’s intergroup rivalry, contingent community formation, and fandomized war reporting (facilitator) (Project led by Phillip Stenmann Baun, Maximilian Schlüter and Daniel Bach)

What is a meme, technically speaking? (Facilitated by Richard Rogers, Giulia Giorgi & Janna Joceli Omena)

After all, what are bolsobots like these days? (Facilitated by Janna Joceli Omena, Thais Lobo, Francisco Kerche, Giulia Tucci & Emillie de Keulenaar)

2021

Investigating cross-platform visual issuefication: the case of Brazil’s Pantanal wildfires

Mapping Deepfakes with digital methods and visual analytics (Facilitated by Lucia Bainotti, Sarah Burkhardt, Gabriele Colombo, Janna Joceli Omena & Jason Chao)

Profiling Bolsobots Networks (Lead: Janna Joceli Omena & Thais Lobo)

2020

Cross-Platform Digital Networks: Exploring the narrative affordances of force-directed layouts and data relational nature (Lead: Janna Joceli Omena)

Good Enough Publics

2019

Bots and the Black Market of Social Media Engagement (Lead: Janna Joceli Omena, Jason Chao & Elena Pilipets)

Climate Image Spaces –> The history of climate changes images through Google search results

Interrogating Vision APIs

2018

App Stores and Their Bias: Repurposing ‘App Relatedness’? –> Part II: Objectnable Queries. Searching for Porn in App Stores

Mapping War Atrocities across Platforms

Visualising Engagement in Zika Epidemic