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Exploring the social implications of digital transformation, as well as demonstrating how we might use digital transformation to further sociological knowledge, this incisive Handbook provides an extensive overview of cutting-edge research on the digital turn of modern society. Bringing together contributions from more than 60 experts spanning a wide range of disciplines, Jan Skopek explores how digital technologies inextricably permeate the ways we go about our everyday lives, from how we seek information and carry out economic transactions to how we construct our identities and pursue and maintain social relationships. Chapters investigate timely issues related to social theory and social research in the digital age, including the study of online behaviour, digital social inequalities, and the micro- and macro-level consequences of digital technological change. Covering state-of-the-art quantitative and qualitative research methodologies in digital sociology, this Research Handbook serves as a comprehensive resource for teaching and research in a continually developing field. Cross-disciplinary in scope, this dynamic Research Handbook will be essential reading for a diverse audience of academics, researchers, students, and practitioners, particularly in the fields of sociology, demography, computer and information sciences, economics, business, and psychology.

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Author:   Jan Skopek
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
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9781789906752

ISBN 10:   178990675
Pages:   492
Publication Date:   31 March 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of 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

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'This Handbook provides a rich and wide range of research using digital tools and approaches. The chapters cover a variety of domains and provide an excellent overview of the state-of-the-art in the field.' -- Ralph Schroeder, University of Oxford, UK 'As new digital technologies emerge and are taken into social worlds, so too, digital sociology is dynamic, changing over time. This comprehensive Handbook brings together a wide array of researchers, not only from sociology but also from cognate research areas, to ponder and work through how digital sociology might be practised today. There is much in this book to awaken the interest of academics and students; both those who are new to digital sociology and those looking to expand their horizons.' -- Deborah Lupton, University of New South Wales, Australia

'This Handbook provides a rich and wide range of research using digital tools and approaches. The chapters cover a variety of domains and provide an excellent overview of the state of the art in the field.' -- Ralph Schroeder, University of Oxford, UK 'As new digital technologies emerge and are taken into social worlds, so too, digital sociology is dynamic, changing over time. This comprehensive Handbook brings together a wide array of researchers, not only from sociology but also from cognate research areas, to ponder and work through how digital sociology might be practised today. There is much in this book to awaken the interest of academics and students; both those who are new to digital sociology and those looking to expand their horizons.' -- Deborah Lupton, University of New South Wales, Australia

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Edited by Jan Skopek, Associate Professor in Sociology, Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

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