Computational Social Science

New Dataset Collects Instances of ‘Contentious Politics’ Around the World
Resources
December 13, 2023

New Dataset Collects Instances of ‘Contentious Politics’ Around the World

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Webinar: Teaching Computational Social Science
Announcements
March 15, 2023

Webinar: Teaching Computational Social Science

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Inspiring the Next Generation: Methodspace Series on ‘The Future of Computational Science is Black’
Higher Education Reform
February 25, 2022

Inspiring the Next Generation: Methodspace Series on ‘The Future of Computational Science is Black’

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Computational Social Science Takes on Anti-Black Racism
Announcements
February 5, 2021

Computational Social Science Takes on Anti-Black Racism

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Social Scientists Working with LinkedIn Data

Social Scientists Working with LinkedIn Data

Today, researchers are using LinkedIn data in a variety of ways: to find and recruit participants for research and experiments to analyze how the features of this network affect people’s behavior and identity or how data is used for hiring and recruiting purposes.

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Computational Social Science: A New Way of Working and Thinking

Computational Social Science: A New Way of Working and Thinking

The ability to work with digital research methods and data analysis is opening up a whole new world of research potential for social scientists. No one knows this better than Digital Sociologist Dr. James Allen-Robertson from the University of Essex. For him, these new techniques have enabled multiple interdisciplinary research collaborations and a whole new world of funding and professional opportunities.

Here, James tells us how computational social science has given him and his research output a new lease of life.

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Grants Offered Computational Social Science Software Developers

Grants Offered Computational Social Science Software Developers

A grant program that provides early stage funding for innovative software ideas that support social science researchers working with big data and new technology is now accepting applications.

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Report: Who Is Doing Computational Social Science

Report: Who Is Doing Computational Social Science

SAGE Publishing surveyed social scientists around the world to learn more about who engages in research using ‘big data,’ and what challenges they face as well as the barriers facing those who are interested in conducting computational social science going forward.

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Who is Doing Big Data: A SAGE Survey

Who is Doing Big Data: A SAGE Survey

A new survey shoots down the idea that early-career researchers aresomehow more likely to be digital natives and therefore more apt to conduct computational social science than those whose PhDs were issued more than a decade ago.

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Watch Gary King: Do We Need a Big Data Treaty?

Watch Gary King: Do We Need a Big Data Treaty?

Political scientists Gary King has called on the policymakers and government officials in the audience to consider enacting a ‘treaty’ on the collection, retention, access and sharing of big data that could serve the needs of the academic world, the commercial world and government while protecting the interests of the public.

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Computers Broke It. Computers Can Fix It

Computers Broke It. Computers Can Fix It

Computers have revolutionized academic research – and at the same time created a new crop of problems. But, suggests Ben Marwick, computers can also help address some of the challenges they have created.

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The Importance of Studying the Obvious

The Importance of Studying the Obvious

Everyone has experience being human, and so findings in social science coincide with something that we have either experienced or can imagine experiencing. The result is that social science all too often seems like common sense.

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