[Air-L] literature on theory and big data in social sciences

Thu Jun 8 06:51:37 PDT 2017

although it is less on social sciences, our edited volume The Datafied Society. Studying Culture through Data does address data and datapractices, but then in the humanities. There are also chapters on the ethical challenges for research integrity. It is available as free download:

http://mtschaefer.net/entry/datafied-society/

Cheers,
mirko
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Hello all,

I'm very interested in reading the article “Commentary: What Does a Critical Data Studies Look Like, and Why Do We Care? Seven Points for a Critical Approach to ‘big Data'" but the web page is inaccessible to me. Google led me to this:

https://www.countercartographies.org/critical-data-studies-look-like/

But the link from there still doesn't work. Assuming it's supposed to be open access, does anybody have a copy?

By the way, I'm so happy about this thread! I wasn't aware of how many social sci/humanities scholars have been working on data and the "end of theory" (scare quotes necessary as far as I'm concerned).

Regards,

Emma

On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Schaefer, M.T. (Mirko) <m.t.schaefer at uu.nl<mailto:m.t.schaefer at uu.nl>> wrote:
I do not know if it has been mentioned already, but I find Noortje Marres' new book to sound very promising

Digital Sociology: The Reinvention of Social Research
http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0745684785.html

Cheers,
mirko
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Perhaps also the book, Compromised Data: from Social Media to Big
Data, http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/compromised-data-9781501306525/
On Fri, 2017-05-26 at 12:06 +0200, Tom van Nuenen wrote:
> Dear researchers of the Internet,
>
> I'm looking for literature that deals with the relations between
> theory and
> method in the social sciences in an age of big data and the supposed
> 'end
> of theory'. Data is increasingly likely to be a starting point for
> social
> scientists investigating the digital world, but what does this mean
> for
> theory, method and the relations between them?
>
> Any information and literature would be very welcome. Many thanks in
> advance!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tom van Nuenen
> Assistant Professor Online Culture
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