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Throwing the baby away with the bathwater: dynamics of intra-party wrangling and “primary penalty” in Ghanaian politics
The study examined how deep-seated intra-party conflict could lead to a “back-stabbing” posturing as well as the machinations deployed by sore losers...
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Computational Social Science: A Complex Contagion
Computational social science is a multidisciplinary umbrella that includes a wide array of analytic approaches enabled by universal access to high... -
The Place and Value of Large-Scale Qualitative Data Analysis
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the rationale for, and value of, large-scale qualitative data analysis and the contribution of the... -
Introduction: Human Dynamics Research with Social Media and Geospatial Data Analytics
Social media and geospatial big data have provided researchers new ways to study human dynamics, which is a transdisciplinary research field that... -
Applying unsupervised machine learning to counterterrorism
To advance the agenda in counterterrorism, this work demonstrates how analysts can combine unsupervised machine learning, exploratory data analysis,...
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Text Mining Oral Histories in Historical Archaeology
Advances in text mining and natural language processing methodologies have the potential to productively inform historical archaeology and oral...
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Plattformforschung mit Instagram-Daten – Eine Übersicht über analytische Zugänge, digitale Erhebungsverfahren und forschungsethische Perspektiven in Zeiten der APIcalypse
In recent years, the photo and video sharing platform Instagram has become one of the most widely used social media platforms worldwide. Due to...
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Definition & Geschichte
Auch wenn Datenjournalismus als eine junge Disziplin gilt, wurde das Handwerk bereits häufig im 20. Jahrhundert angewandt. Besonders bei... -
Content analysis in mixed method approaches
This chapter puts forth a synthesis of mixed method research designs combining content analysis with other methods of data collection. While mixed... -
Arbeitsweisen des Datenjournalismus
Für den einen sind es fünf Cs, für die anderen drei Ds – letztlich beschreiben sie dasselbe: die Arbeitsschritte von Datenjournalisten*innen.... -
Fragile Computing
Fragile Computing is more frugal and modest than hopes for solutions but it is also uncomfortable and uneasy. The tactics suggested do not overcome... -
The Whole-of-Nation-Failure-Governance: Taiwan’s Politics of Problematization of COVID-19
In this chapter, the case of Taiwan is explained. Taiwan could be seen as an epitome of success. Based on various resources, we can call Taiwan the... -
Lessons for science and technology policy? Probing the Linkedin network of an RDI organisation
In this paper, we seek to examine the network of the Greek National Documentation Centre (EKT) as formed by its LinkedIn followers. By applying...
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Adjustment of initial estimates of voter transition probabilities to guarantee consistency and completeness
The estimation of voter shifts (stayers and switchers) between elections is an active area of research that, for decades, has attracted the interest...
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Remains of the Invisible: Reconstructing Nineteenth-Century Plantation Life through the Biohistories of an Eastern North Carolina Family
Planned restoration of a 19th-century burial vault in Jones County, North Carolina, associated with the Foscue family, led to its excavation in 2010....
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Community Building Through Place-Making Activities: Older Landscapers in a Singaporean Residential Town
This paper explores how some older residents in B Town, a residential estate in northern Singapore, engage in community building through their...
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Men and Health in Africa
Various intersecting factors in different contexts shape health, from historical to physical environmental/climatic, political, economic, and... -
‘We shall triumph like the Jews’: unveiling the implicit side of IPOB’s armed separatism in Southeast Nigeria
This study investigated the impetus for the armed separatism of the Indigenous Peoples Of Biafra (IPOB). Drawing from a mixed method design utilizing...