Digital Society Laboratory

DSL is Russian technology internet company.

DSL is a Russian independent private company which specializes in carrying out sociological and marketing researches in social networks and the Internet. The Laboratory was founded in 2012 and has a unique staff of professionals in the fields of data analysis and sociology. Social networks have become a significant factor which influences on diffusion and search of information, business and public opinion. Their diffusion has opened an access for researchers to an enormous array of data on the virtual life of the society applicable for empirical analysis. This data is a source of factual material for research on the dynamics of human behavior, network structure and patterns of information flow in them. At present, there are over 70 million Internet users in Russia, of which over 80% have at least one social network account. They observe the continual increase both in the number of social network users as well as in the amount of time spend therein. All of it explains the growing interest towards the practical analysis of the structure and dynamics of online communities and towards the study of attention economics in the Internet space. Works in this direction are necessary for sociologists as well as specialists who directly or indirectly work with social media: marketologists, politicians, media professionals, human resources services, risk analysts etc. The range of their services comprises social network data analysis, trend monitoring, targeted advertising and many more. Attracting the leading scientists in the fields of sociology, mathematical analysis, social networks and collaborative filtering, the Laboratory accumulates the latest scientific and practical works, identifies and solves the most important information tasks. They hope that their Laboratory research will help science and business reveal hidden tendencies in their society and increase the efficiency of their work.