MMTC monthly information meeting 

MMTC's DMI Research Seminar – Models, Misfires, and Meaningful Nulls: Computational Explorations in Platform Governance Research

Presented by Maria Arango-Kure

In this seminar, Maria opens the garage door on their computational workflow. Drawing on a longitudinal study of platform governance, they present three modelling efforts: a multi class transformer classifier for identifying organizational values in corporate text, a clickbait classifier to trace editorial shifts over time, and embedding based topic models for analysing legitimation strategies.

Maria walks through what worked, what did not, and what remains to be seen. Going over the practical decisions behind each approach, including corpus construction, annotation, model selection, parameter tuning, and validation, and what happens when the computational part runs beautifully but the interpretive work reveals that there is, substantively, nothing there.

The session creates space for an honest conversation about operationalizing abstract concepts, diagnosing model behaviour, and interpreting meaningful null results in computational platform research.

Date & time: March 4th, 13:15–14:45 (online)
Zoom link: Register for the seminar via the DMI website here  https://datamethodsinitiative.org/ 

The Data Methods Initiative is a collaborative academic group committed to fostering innovation in social science research - Our seminars provide a space for researchers to share their work, explore innovative data methods, and engage in meaningful discussions. Each session lasts 90 minutes, combining a deep dive into the research context with a behind-the-scenes look at the practical challenges and solutions involved in applying these methods. Find out more https://datamethodsinitiative.org/ 

Details to come

MMTC Seminar presented by Lucia Pizzichini (based on a working paper being presented at the American Phygital Association Conference by Lucia and Adele Berndt.)

Title: Tourist Sport Engagement in the Phygital Era: Linking Digital Sport Technologies and Revisit Intention

Description: This study examines how phygital sport tourism—defined as sport experiences practiced in a specific destination and enhanced by digital tools—strengthens tourist sport engagement, conceptualized as the sustained cognitive, emotional, and behavioural involvement (including socially expressed behaviours such as sharing achievements via digital platforms) of individuals in sport activities performed during travel. The study specifically investigates how the use of digital applications and technologies (e.g., GPS-based platforms, gamified sport apps, AR-supported trails) deepens engagement with sport practice in place and, in turn, fosters revisit intention.

? Location: B6046, JIBS
? Online: Contact for zoom link

Seminar title: What Drives AI Readiness? Archetypes Evidence from Family Firms

 Presented by guests Maria Rosaria Marguglio and Bart Henssen, (coauthored with Pasquale Massimo Picone and Salvatore Tomaselli)

30 March, 12:00-13:00 CET

Zoom