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Computational ethnography: A view from sociology [PDF]
Big Data & Society, 2022 This commentary elaborates on the ideas and projects outlined in this special issue, from a specifically sociological perspective. Much recent work in sociology proposes ‘methods mashups’ of ethnography and digital data/computational tools in different ...
Phillip Brooker
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The research of social processes at the university using big data [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2021 The volume of information in the 21st century is growing at a rapid pace. Big data technologies are used to process modern information. This article discusses the use of big data technologies to implement monitoring of social processes.
Hacimahmud Abdullayev Vugar +2 more
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Challenges of Automated Identification of Access to Education and Training in Germany
Information, 2023 The German labor market relies heavily on vocational training, retraining, and continuing education. In order to match training seekers with training offers and to make the available data interoperable, we present a novel approach to automatically detect
Jens Dörpinghaus +2 more
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Yhteiskunnallisen teorian ja monimenetelmällisyyden puolustus
Media & Viestintä, 2022 Arvio teoksesta: Lindgren, Simon. 2020. Data Theory: Interpretive Sociology and Computational Methods. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 198 s.
Anna Rantasila
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An Immune System Inspired Theory for Crime and Violence in Cities [PDF]
Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 2017 Crime is ubiquitous and has been around for millennia. Crime is analogous to a pathogenic infection and police response to it is similar to an immune response. The biological immune system is also engaged in an arms race with pathogens.
Soumya Banerjee
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Abductive Logic of Inquiry for Quantitative Research in the Digital Age
Sociological Science, 2021 We propose an abductive logic of scientific inference for quantitative research. The advent of computational sociology has exposed the limitations of a deductive logic of inquiry for quantitative researchers due to a lack of traditional sociological ...
Philipp Brandt, Stefan Timmermans
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Sinophobia was popular in Chinese language communities on Twitter during the early COVID-19 pandemic
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a global surge in Sinophobia. We examine how Chinese language users responded to COVID-19 on Western social media by compiling a unique database (CNTweets) with over 25 million Chinese tweets mentioning any Chinese ...
Yongjun Zhang +3 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Partisan sorting in residential environments is an enduring feature of contemporary American politics, but little research has examined partisan segregation individuals experience in activity spaces through their daily activities.
Yongjun Zhang +3 more
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Ecology and Society, 2022 Ongoing urbanization leads to problems such as densification, loss of biodiversity, and social injustice in cities. For increasing urban populations, green–blue infrastructure (GBI) is an important element in compact cities contributing to human health ...
Julia Palliwoda +4 more
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Global burden of maternal bereavement: indicators of the cumulative prevalence of child loss
BMJ Global Health, 2021 Background We provide country-level estimates of the cumulative prevalence of mothers bereaved by a child’s death in 170 countries and territories.Methods We generate indicators of the cumulative prevalence of mothers who have had an infant, under-five ...
Emily Smith-Greenaway +3 more
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