What is ethnographic about digital ethnography? A sociological perspective

P Forberg, K Schilt - Frontiers in Sociology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
When COVID-19 health guidelines vastly restricted or shut down in-person ethnographic
research in 2020, many researchers pivoted to forms of online qualitative research using …

Start generating: Harnessing generative artificial intelligence for sociological research

T Davidson - Socius, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
How can generative artificial intelligence (GAI) be used for sociological research? The
author explores applications to the study of text and images across multiple domains …

A dataset without a code book: ethnography and open science

S Khan, JS Hirsch, O Zeltzer-Zubida - Frontiers in Sociology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
This paper reflects upon calls for “open data” in ethnography, drawing on our experiences
doing research on sexual violence. The core claim of this paper is not that open data is …

Inequality in the Origins and Experiences of Pain: What “Big (Qualitative) Data” Reveal About Social Suffering in the United States

CM Abramson, Z Li, T Prendergast… - RSF: The Russell …, 2024 - rsfjournal.org
This study examines how Americans' narratives of pain are connected to social inequalities
using more than 1,500 in-depth interviews collected as part of the American Voices Project …

Democracy underwater: public participation, technical expertise, and climate infrastructure planning in New York City

M Araos - Theory and Society, 2023 - Springer
This article provides an explanation for how increased public participation can paradoxically
translate into limited democratic decision-making in urban settings. Recent sociological …

An implausible virtual interview: Conversations with a professional research subject

LL Owens - Sociological Methodology, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The author explores interactions with one research subject who feigns credentials and
invents stories in order to participate in social science research interviews online. The …

Advances in transparency and reproducibility in the social sciences

J Freese, T Rauf, JG Voelkel - Social Science Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Worries about a “credibility crisis” besieging science have ignited interest in research
transparency and reproducibility as ways of restoring trust in published research. For …

Hybrid ethnography: Access, positioning, and data assembly

RF Liu - Ethnography, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This research suggests three ways in which hybrid ethnography can be used to overcome
the shortcomings of single-realm ethnography, in particular, ethnographies that situate …

No safe harbor: eviction filing in public housing

L Leung, P Hepburn, J Hendrickson… - Social Service …, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
Using the records of hundreds of thousands of court cases filed across the United States
between 2010 and 2016, we assess whether residence in public housing reduces the risk of …

Artificial concepts of artificial intelligence: institutional compliance and resistance in AI startups

AA Winecoff, EA Watkins - Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Scholars and industry practitioners have debated how to best develop interventions for
ethical artificial intelligence (AI). Such interventions recommend that companies building …