Meetup research proposal

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1. MAPPING THE DIGITAL MEDIA INDUSTRY AN EXPLORATION OF THE DIGITAL PRACTIONERS’ ECOSYSTEM Frederik Lesage, Alberto Lusoli, Vancouver, April.12, 2017
2. To better understand where, when, and how creative practitioners working in Metro Vancouver’s burgeoning digital start-up industry organize their work and share information.
3. AREAS OF INVESTIGATION Understand how creative practitioners organize their work and share information Foreground the material and immaterial infrastructure of labour in the digital economy Cultural circuit Analyze the diffusion of managerial concepts throughout the community
4. 15th start-up ecosystem in the world. 1st in Canada. 800-1100 active startups. Home of 3 out of 5 “$1B+” digital companies 75.000 people employed ? Source: Startup Genome Report, 2017, Vancouver Economic Forum
5. find our approach the
6. Meetups: Semi-formal and very specialized gathering for venture workers and start-up entrepreneurs. Use data from Meetup.com to guide the ethnographic exploration of the field.
7. Data scraped from Meetup.com: Vancouver events, 2009 – 2016 Title Date, hour Venue Organizer Long description # Participants Tags
15. No real time
16. Comparing timeframes On the fly comparisons Application-agnostic Map the movements of practitioners across events Access to individual profiles Real time analysis
18. Allows researchers to decide what to research (which data to retrieve from APIs and store in the DB) and also and how to analyze and display the results. For instance, possibility to query the DB for specific topics, and to analyze/display results through web-applications or commercial software (Tableau, Gephi, R, etc.) An example: bit.ly/prototype2017
19. Thanks FREDERIK LESAGE flesage@sfu.ca ALBERTO LUSOLI alusoli@sfu.ca