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Big and broad social data and the sociological imagination : A collaborative response
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dc.contributor.author | Housley, William | |
dc.contributor.author | Procter, Rob | |
dc.contributor.author | Edwards, Adam | |
dc.contributor.author | Burnap, Peter | |
dc.contributor.author | Williams, Matthew | |
dc.contributor.author | Sloan, Luke | |
dc.contributor.author | Rana, Omer | |
dc.contributor.author | Morgan, Jeffrey | |
dc.contributor.author | Voss, Alexander | |
dc.contributor.author | Greenhill, Anita | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-07-10T11:40:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-07-10T11:40:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-08-05 | |
dc.identifier | 192238334 | |
dc.identifier | 9574c0c4-0be8-470a-917c-18419140091f | |
dc.identifier | 84967409594 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Housley , W , Procter , R , Edwards , A , Burnap , P , Williams , M , Sloan , L , Rana , O , Morgan , J , Voss , A & Greenhill , A 2014 , ' Big and broad social data and the sociological imagination : A collaborative response ' , Big Data & Society , vol. 1 , no. 2 , pp. 1-15 . https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951714545135 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2053-9517 | |
dc.identifier.other | Bibtex: urn:7dfe32784cd3c68ba73c40e653b197e3 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-8053-2175/work/31093298 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/6960 | |
dc.description | We wish to thank the UK Economic and Social Research Council (grant numbers ES/K008013/1 and ES/J009903/1), the National Centre for Research Methods, the Digital Social Research programme and the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (Digital Infrastructure Research Tools Programme) for funding this work. | en |
dc.description.abstract | In this paper, we reflect on the disciplinary contours of contemporary sociology, and social science more generally, in the age of 'big and broad' social data. Our aim is to suggest how sociology and social sciences may respond to the challenges and opportunities presented by this 'data deluge' in ways that are innovative yet sensitive to the social and ethical life of data and methods. We begin by reviewing relevant contemporary methodological debates and consider how they relate to the emergence of big and broad social data as a product, reflexive artefact and organizational feature of emerging global digital society. We then explore the challenges and opportunities afforded to social science through the widespread adoption of a new generation of distributed, digital technologies and the gathering momentum of the open data movement, grounding our observations in the work of the Collaborative Online Social Media ObServatory (COSMOS) project. In conclusion, we argue that these challenges and opportunities motivate a renewed interest in the programme for a 'public sociology', characterized by the co-production of social scientific knowledge involving a broad range of actors and publics. | |
dc.format.extent | 1173377 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Big Data & Society | en |
dc.subject | Big data | en |
dc.subject | Social media | en |
dc.subject | COSMOS | en |
dc.subject | Public sociology | en |
dc.subject | Co-production | en |
dc.subject | Collaboration | en |
dc.subject | Methods innovation | en |
dc.subject | QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QA75 | en |
dc.title | Big and broad social data and the sociological imagination : A collaborative response | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | Economic & Social Research Council | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Computer Science | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/2053951714545135 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | ES/K008013/1 | en |
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