Computational social science for communication research
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Scholars have long been aware of the potential of computation for social science research, particularly for the study of human communication. Increasingly, more of our social interactions are occurring within contexts enabled by modern advances in computation, specifically the Internet and the ubiquity of computing devices and interfaces aimed at typical consumers. As more of our interactions have moved online, researchers have rushed to use the socio-computational era to their advantage, building research agendas that attempt to answer questions from conventional social science theory through inspection of these new computational experiences in the field. However, it is unclear what delineates \textit{conventional} social science from \textit{computational} social science. I consider this problem in this dissertation and provide some effort to refine the definition of computational social science through illustration via three studies employing the use of a Web browser.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Weiss, Rebecca |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Iyengar, Shanto |
| Thesis advisor | Iyengar, Shanto |
| Thesis advisor | Bailenson, Jeremy |
| Thesis advisor | Goel, Sharad, 1977- |
| Thesis advisor | Hamilton, James, 1961- |
| Degree committee member | Bailenson, Jeremy |
| Degree committee member | Goel, Sharad, 1977- |
| Degree committee member | Hamilton, James, 1961- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Communication. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Rebecca Weiss. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Communication. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Rebecca Weiss
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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