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Current issue: easy (69). Neue Daten und Methoden in der Sozialforschung: digital & transformativ
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“Data is the new oil” – this illustrative quote from the advertising industry underlines the boom in the analysis and use of digital data in recent decades. Commercial providers use this data to collect increasingly detailed information about their users and customers in order to develop and personalize their products and services. But digital data cannot only be used to maximize profits. (Social) scientific research is also making increasing use of such data and investigating behavior in a digital context. However, digital research data, just like the proverbial “oil”, comes not only with enormous potentials but also great challenges. This issue continues what was started in easy's last issue (no. 68): We here provide an overview of the diverse disciplinary, methodological, and substantuve approaches to research with and about digital data. In doing do, we aim to underline how these kinds of data can be used to exploit new research opportunities.
Please note: there are three articles in English in this issue. For the other contributions you will find English abstracts in the issue.
- Einführung: Digitalisierungsforschung. Ein Einblick in die Bandbreite der Forschung zu und mit digitalen Daten (Julian Kohne, Josephine B. Schmitt & Johannes Breuer)
- Digitale Methoden in der Politikwissenschaft. Auf dem Weg in virtuelle Welten? (Isabelle Borucki)
- The Dark Web. A Brief Introduction (Felix Soldner)
- Jung, weiblich und extrem rechts. Die narrative Kommunikation weiblicher Akteurinnen auf Instagram (Sandra Kero)
- Periods in the Public Eye. Investigating Risk Perceptions of Data Sharing in Reproductive Health Applications (Annika Deubel & Pauline Heger)
- Making Sense of the Big Data Mess. Why Interdisciplinarity Matters in Smart Cities (Niklas Frechen, Pauline Heger, Christoph Bieber & Mennatullah Hendawy)