Dear all, Please find our Call for Papers below: * * *"How Image-As-Data Approaches Can Help Analysing Protest and Its Organisation: Methods and Applications" **Workshop: September 30 to October 1, 2024Free University Berlin* Images are a strong tool to convey messages. Next to text, they are essential elements in political communication. Images can play important roles in any political process but are especially meaningful in situations of high political contestation. As such, images play a pivotal role in protest events and their analysis as they can transmit messages or emotions that text cannot capture. In this workshop, we aim to look at how images, and especially how recently emerging image-as-data methods, can help analyse, explain, and structure social uprisings. More precisely, we want to look at how, for example, images and other types of visual data can frame situations, as well as how we can use images to analyse backstage organisations, infrastructure and dynamics of protests. Further, we want to look at how images can be used to retrieve information for analysing social and protest behaviour. Finally, we want to look at automated image analysis as a new avenue of research. As such, we also want to draw attention to new methodological techniques and how image-as-data analysis can be applied in the Social Sciences. Our workshop aims to address new methods and challenges for analysing images in an automated way. We want to discuss the new challenges of image-as-data techniques and also include a small hands-on session in the workshop to learn, apply, and practice new techniques. As such, we are looking for interested participants coming from the field of social movement studies and/or computational social science broadly defined, who are studying protest and/or social behaviour through the use of automated image analysis. We are also interested in participants with a strong methodological focus on image-as-data techniques. The workshop is scheduled for*September 30 to October 1, 2024 at Free University* Berlin. Researchers at any stage in their career are welcome to submit an abstract until*June 9, 2024 (250-400 words as pdf)* to rebecca.kittel@fu-berlin.de. Upon acceptance, a draft paper to the workshop should be submitted by September 23, 2024. We are especially keen to have PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers join the discussion. Further, we aim for a special issue coming out of this workshop. We are happy to provide travel funds and accommodation within the limits of our funding rules, but we are also prepared to organize the workshop in a hybrid format. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to reach out to us. *_Keynote Speaker:_* - Michelle Torres, Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles *_Timeline:_* - *June 9, 2024: *Deadline submission of abstracts - *June 19, 2024: *Notification of selection - *September 23, 2024: *Submission of full papers - *September 30 to October 1, 2024:* Workshop *_Organisers:_* - Anna Fruhstorfer, Head Research Group & Principal Investigator, ERC Starting Grant LOOPS, Free University Berlin & WZB Berlin, anna.fruhstorfer@fu-berlin.de - Rebecca Kittel, Postdoctoral Researcher, ERC Starting Grant LOOPS, Free University Berlin & WZB Berlin, rebecca.kittel@fu-berlin.de - Michelle Torres, Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, smtorres@ucla.edu All the best, Rebecca -- *Dr. Rebecca Kittel* Post-Doctoral Researcher *ERC-Project LOOPS* Freie Universität Berlin Institute for East European Studies Garystr. 55 - Room 222 14195 Berlin, Germany WZB Berlin Social Sience Center Center for Civil Society Research Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin, Germany