Digital Research for the Social Sciences

Seminar
17 maggio 2019
17 May 2019

Seminar Room, Department of Economics and Management, Via Inama 5, Trento
11.00 AM

Speaker

  • Simone Santoni (City University London) 

Abstract
Social media; online communities of enthusiasts; archives of naturally-occurring information. Digital data are everywhere around us and offer immense opportunities to account for how organizational and social facts are brought about. Yet, leveraging digital requires social scientists to chart new methodological terrains and ― at least partly ― to rethink extant conceptual categories, which have been produced in the `off-line world.' This seminar surveys some key issues in the emerging field of `digital research' with the twofold goal: i) to help social scientists to see value in digital data; and ii) to build effective research designs upon them.

  • The added value of digital data: Macro-patterns and micro-behavior
  • How do I collect digital data?
     * RestAPI Webscraping Working with data-dumps
  • Do `old' conceptual categories apply to the online world?
    * Case 1: What is an `artist' in the context of on-line cultural markets?  Case 2: Do on-line communities of enthusiasts create meaningful product-market categories?  
  • Text analysis in digital research: The role of natural language processing

Contatti
Alberto Nucciarelli
E mail: alberto.nucciarelli [at] unitn.it
0461- 283155

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