CCT208H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Computational Social Science, Digital Footprint, Sociometry
5 Dec 2016
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Big data or data science, is found and gathered from digital traces and exhaust. Computational social science, the data we get nowadays is being produced that is generated faster than data before and for this we need new tools to gather it. Measurement: cheaper to analyze tweets to get a collective public opinion. Ho(cid:449)e(cid:448)er, a lot of the populatio(cid:374)"s de(cid:373)ographi(cid:272) is (cid:373)issi(cid:374)g from twitter. Ethical: much of css is owned by private entities which may make it unethical to use such data. Data collected for making a profit for big companies rather than for research purposes. Has a much longer history than social science. Symbolic interactionism: the creation of meaning though social interaction. The relationships between interacting social units matter. Actor or a node in a network, can be an individual, social media user, a family or a blog, company or organization. They are coherent social entities existing in the social world.
