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Studying social networks in the age of computational social science
Social and behavioral sciences now stand at a critical juncture. The emergence of Computational Social Science has significantly changed how social...
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Computational social science with confidence
There is an ongoing shift in computational social science towards validating our methodologies and improving the reliability of our findings. This is...
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Critical computational social science
In her 2021 IC2S2 keynote talk, “Critical Data Theory,” Margaret Hu builds off Critical Race Theory, privacy law, and big data surveillance to...
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Thinking spatially in computational social science
Deductive and theory-driven research starts by asking questions. Finding tentative answers to these questions in the literature is next. It is...
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Computational Social Science for Public Policy
Computational Social Science (CSS), which brings together the power of computational methods and the analytical rigour of the social sciences, has...
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DDDAS in the Social Sciences
The work presented in this chapter is driven by an enduring social science Grand Challenge: How can the field of social sciences improve its...
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Measuring the evolution of social hope since the outbreak of COVID 19 in Iran with a case study of Persian Twitter based on computational social science
Social hope is a category that has received some attention in recent years, and theoretical constructs have yet to be developed to measure it. In...
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Geo-computation for Humanities and Social Sciences
Humanities and social sciences (HSS) are undergoing the transformation of quantification and spatialization. Geo-computation provides effective...
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Computational social science is growing up: why puberty consists of embracing measurement validation, theory development, and open science practices
Puberty is a phase in which individuals often test the boundaries of themselves and surrounding others and further define their identity – and thus...
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The application of exponential random graph models to collaboration networks in biomedical and health sciences: a review
Collaboration has become crucial in solving scientific problems in biomedical and health sciences. There is a growing interest in applying social...
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Describing Human Behaviour Through Computational Social Science
The possibilities offered by digital and Computational Social Science can improve our understanding of human behaviour as never before. The...
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A global taxonomy of interpretable AI: unifying the terminology for the technical and social sciences
Since its emergence in the 1960s, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has grown to conquer many technology products and their fields of application. Machine...
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Artificial intelligence and work: a critical review of recent research from the social sciences
This review seeks to present a comprehensive picture of recent discussions in the social sciences of the anticipated impact of AI on the world of...
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The Ethics of Computational Social Science
This chapter is concerned with setting up practical guardrails within the research activities and environments of Computational Social Science (CSS)....
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AI for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences
AI raises multiple essential issues for the humanities and the social sciences. AI is obviously a major societal issue whose consequences are...
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Opinion Types on Social Media: A Review of Approaches to What Opinions Are in Social vs. Computational Science
Today’s public opinion research has rapidly transformed to include opinions expressed within new forms of mediatized communication, including those...
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Challenges and Opportunities of Computational Social Science for Official Statistics
The vast amount of data produced everyday (so-called digital traces) and available nowadays represent a gold mine for the social sciences, especially...
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Modelling Complexity with Unconventional Data: Foundational Issues in Computational Social Science
The large availability of data, often from unconventional sources, does not call for a data-driven and theory-free approach to social science. On the...
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Handbook of Computational Social Science for Policy
This open access handbook describes foundational issues, methodological approaches and examples on how to analyse and model data using Computational...