This provocative new introduction to the field of digital sociology offers a critical overview of interdisciplinary debates about new ways of knowing society that are emerging today at the …
J Metcalf, K Crawford - Big Data & Society, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
There are growing discontinuities between the research practices of data science and established tools of research ethics regulation. Some of the core commitments of existing …
Algorithms have permeated throughout civil government and society, where they are being used to make high-stakes decisions about human lives. In this paper, we first develop a …
Designing Social Research is a uniquely comprehensive and student-friendly guide to the core knowledge and types of skills required for planning social research. The authors …
Accounting for technologies' unintended consequences—whether they are misinformation on social media or issues of sustainability and social justice—increasingly requires HCI to …
C Fiesler, J Jiang, J McCann, K Frye… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ojs.aaai.org
The social sharing and news aggregation site Reddit provides a unique example of an ecosystem of community-created rules. Not only do individual subreddits create and enforce …
Online social platforms centered around content creators often allow comments on content, where creators can then moderate the comments they receive. As creators can face …
The explosion in the use of software in important sociotechnical systems has renewed focus on the study of the way technical constructs reflect policies, norms, and human values. This …
Online social media platforms constantly struggle with harmful content such as misinformation and violence, but how to effectively moderate and prioritize such content for …