Bev Skeggs on social media siloing
"Basically 90 percent of Facebook profit is made from advertising — selling your data to advertising companies so that they can place an advert on your browser..." says Bev Skeggs in a new interview with Social Science Bites. Bev Skeggs joins the podcast in order to reveal interesting new findings in her research that studies how social networks were structuring or restructuring friendships.
Sandy Pentland on social physics
"Alex 'Sandy' Petland tells interviewer Dave Edmonds about the origins of social physics in the days before widespread good data and solid statistical methods and explains how it blossomed as both a field and for Pentland’s own research. Full interview on Social Science Space"
Gary King on big data analysis
In this Social Science Bite, Professor Gary King, uses text analysis as an example of this big data analysis... King, spotlights the difference between computer scientists’ goals and social scientists’ goals, then talks about work examining social media and censorship in China.
Gary King: Do we need a big data treaty?
For years political scientist Gary King has argued and preached for a restructuring of the social sciences that would include “larger scale, collaborative, interdisciplinary, lab-style research teams” with big data analysis in their DNA. "The key reasons social sciences are moving from studying problems individually… to the scientific model where we’re actually solving problems, is because of the community. It is much easier to fool ourselves than it is to fool our community.” - Gary King