David Phillips: Future Social Science On and With Digital Media

Part 5/5: What it means to study society is profoundly changing as we are increasingly surrounded by and incorporated into a pervasive network of digital media. In this panel, five scholars will comment for five minutes each on emerging research problems, opportunities, and methods in social science both with and about digital media. Topics will include computational (or e-) social science, new forms and genres of social media, new methods and tactics, legal obstacles to transformative research, and challenges for future graduate education in the social sciences.

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Education

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• space
• geography
• culture
• social
• science
• internet
• surveillance
• privacy
• foursquare
• chatroulette
• digital
• media

[Ipoonthecasbah]

Well said.

[niftyc]

The Phillips recipe says we need to look in three places for an understanding of the new forms of space we are producing with technology. #1 Unexpected border crossings (Your boss read facebook! OMG!) #2 Simultaneous but Differential Occupation of the Same Space (Webkinz player vs. operator) #3 The Co-Structuring of Physical and Data Spaces (physical spaces built to optimize surveillance camera angles). Nice. #2 needs better example though.

[niftyc]

Also a good one: "That video of yourself performing those grotesqueries on chat roulette -- it's on chat maps now with a pinpoint to your street."

[niftyc]

heh. David Phillips on vlogging: "You are honor bound to ignore anything behind me that might be inappropriate to display in this now public setting."