Research Handbook on Digital Sociology. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jan Skopek.
• Editors: Skopek, Jan
• Contents: Contents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction and overview to the Research Handbook on Digital Sociology 2 Jan Skopek 2 Social theory and the internet in everyday life 23 Pu Yan PART II RESEARCHING THE DIGITAL SOCIETY 3 Digital and computational demography 47 Ridhi Kashyap and R. Gordon Rinderknecht, with Aliakbar Akbaritabar, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Sofia Gil-Clavel, André Grow, Jisu Kim, Douglas R. Leasure, Sophie Lohmann, Daniela V. Negraia, Daniela Perrotta, Francesco Rampazzo, Chia-Jung Tsai, Mark D. Verhagen, Emilio Zagheni, and Xinyi Zhao 4 Digital technologies and the future of social surveys 86 Marcel Das and Tom Emery 5 Mobile devices and the collection of social research data 100 Bella Struminskaya and Florian Keusch 6 Unlocking big data: at the crossroads of computer science and the social sciences 114 Oliver Posegga 7 Regression and machine learning 129 Lukas Erhard and Raphael Heiberger 8 Investigating social phenomena with agent-based models 145 Pablo Lucas and Thomas Feliciani 9 Inclusive digital focus groups: lessons from working with citizens with limited digital literacies 160 Elinor Carmi, Eleanor Lockley, and Simeon Yates PART III ANALYSING DIGITAL LIVES AND ONLINE INTERACTION 10 Social networking site use in professional contexts 178 Christine Anderl, Lea Baumann, and Sonja Utz 11 Online dating and relationship formation 194 Maureen Coyle and Cassandra Alexopoulos 12 Studying mate choice using digital trace data from online dating 210 Jan Skopek 13 Testing sociological theories with digital trace data from online markets 241 Wojtek Przepiorka 14 Using YouTube data for social science research 258 Johannes Breuer, Julian Kohne, and M. Rohangis Mohseni 15 Automated image analysis for studying online behaviour 278 Carsten Schwemmer, Saïd Unger, and Raphael Heiberger PART IV DIGITAL PARTICIPATION AND INEQUALITY 16 Social disparities in adolescents' educational ICT use at home: how digital and educational inequalities interact 293 Birgit Becker 17 The early roots of the digital divide: socioeconomic inequality in children's ICT literacy from primary to secondary schooling 307 Giampiero Passaretta and Carlos J. Gil-Hernández 18 Digital inequalities and adolescent mental health: the role of socioeconomic background, gender, and national context 328 Pablo Gracia, Melissa Bohnert, and Seyma Celik 19 The gender gap in digital skills in cross-national perspective 348 José-Luis Martínez-Cantos PART V CONSEQUENCES OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE 20 Doing family in the digital age 365 Claudia Zerle-Elsäßer, Alexandra N. Langmeyer, Thorsten Naab, and Stephan Heuberger 21 The mental health cost of swiping: is dating app use linked to greater stress and depressive symptoms? 379 Gina Potarca and Julia Sauter 22 Social media and well-being at work, at home, and in-between: a review 398 Julius Klingelhoefer and Adrian Meier 23 The digital transition of the economy and its consequences for the labour market 419 Werner Eichhorst and Gemma Scalise 24 Further training in the context of the digital transformation 433 Thomas Kruppe and Julia Lang 25 Digital campaigning: how digital media change the work of parties and campaign organizations and impact elections Research handbook on digital sociology 446 Andreas Jungherr Index.
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (492 pages)
• Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes; Social interaction; COMPUTERS -- Web -- Social Networking; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General; Social networking; Social discrimination; Sociology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789906769; 1789906768
• Related ISBNs: 9781789906752
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.