Description
Communication technologies, including the internet, social media, and countless online applications create the infrastructure and interface through which many of our interactions take place today. This form of networked communication creates new questions about how we establish relationships, engage in public, build a sense of identity, and delimit the private domain. The ubiquitous adoption of new technologies has also produced, as a byproduct, new ways of observing the world: many of our interactions now leave a digital trail that, if followed, can help us unravel the rhythms of social life and the complexity of the world we inhabit--and thus help us reconstruct the logic of social order and change.The analysis of digital data requires partnerships across disciplinary boundaries that--although on the rise--are still uncommon. Social scientists and computer scientists have never been closer in their goals of trying to understand communication dynamics, but there are not many venues where they can engage in an open exchange of methods and theoretical insights. This handbook brings together scholars across the social and technological sciences to lay the foundations of communication research in the networked age, and to provide a canon of how research should be conducted in the digital era. The contributors highlight the main theories currently guiding their research in digital communication, and discuss state-of-the-art methodological tools, including automated text analysis, the analysis of networks, and the use of natural experiments in virtual environments. Following a general introduction, the handbook covers network and information flow, communication and organizational dynamics, interactions and social capital, mobility and space, political communication and behavior, and the ethics of digital research.
Table of Contents
Introduction1. Introduction: Communication in the Networked AgeBrooke Foucault Welles and Sandra González-BailónPart I. Networks and Information Flow2. Introduction to Part I, Networks and Information Flow: The Second Golden AgeDavid Lazer3. Rebooting Mass Communication: Using Computational and Network Tools to Rebuild Media TheoryKatya Ognyanova4. Propagation Phenomena in Social MediaMeeyoung Cha, Fabrício Benevenuto, Saptarshi Ghosh, and Krishna Gummadi5. Dynamical Processes in Time-Varying NetworksBruno Gonçalves and Nicola Perra6. Partition-Specific Network Analysis of Digital Trace Data: Research Questions and ToolsDeen FreelonPart II. Communication and Organizational Dynamics7. Introduction to Part II, Communication and Organizational Dynamics: How Can Computational Social Science Motivate the Development of Theories, Data, and Methods?Noshir Contractor8. The New Dynamics of Organizational ChangeMatthew S. Weber9. Online Communication by Emergency Responders During Crisis EventsEmma S. Spiro10. Studying Populations of Online CommunitiesBenjamin Mako Hill and Aaron Shaw11. Gender and Networks in Virtual WorldsGrace Benefield and Cuihua ShenPart III. Interactions and Social Capital12. Introduction to Part III, Understanding Social Dynamics Online: Social Networks, Social Capital, and Social InteractionsNicole Ellison13. The Analysis of Social Capital in Digital Environments: A Social Investment ApproachHazel Kwon14. Multiplying the Medium: Tie Strength, Social Role, and Mobile Media MultiplexityJack Jamieson, Jeffrey Boase, Tetsuro Kobayashi15. Revolutionizing Mental Health with Social MediaMunMun de Choudhury16. The Neuroscience of Information SharingChristin Scholz and Emily B. FalkPart IV. Political Communication and Behavior17. Introduction to Part IV, Political Communication Research in a Networked WorldMichael X. Delli Carpini18. Modeling and Measuring Deliberation OnlineNick Beauchamp19. Moving Beyond Sentiment Analysis: Social Media and Emotions in Political CommunicationJamie E. Settle20. Dynamics of Attention and Public Opinion in Social MediaEmilio Ferrara21. A Satisficing Search Model of Text ProductionDrew B. Margolin22. Studying Networked Communication in the Middle East: Social Disrupter and Social ObservatoryJavier Borge-Holthoefer, Muzammil M. Hussain, Ingmar WeberPart V. Mobility and Space23. Introduction to Part V, Mobile Space and Agility as the Subversive PartnerCarolyn Marvin24. One Foot on the Streets, One Foot on the Web: Analyzing the Ecosystem of Protest Movements in an Era of Pervasive Digital CommunicationPaolo Gerbaudo25. Our Stage, Our Streets: Brooklyn Drag and the Queer ImaginaryJessa Lingel26. Digital Mapping of Urban Mobility PatternsChristopher Morrison and Douglas J. Wiebe27. Research on Mobile Phone Data in the Global South: Opportunities and ChallengesSeyram Avle, Emmanuel Quartey, David HutchfulPart VI. Ethics of Digital Research28. Introduction to Part VI, The Ethics of Digital ResearchJeffrey T. Hancock29. Digital Trace Data and Social Research: A Proactive Research EthicsEricka Menchen-Trevino30. A Practitioner's Guide to Ethical Web Data CollectionAlan Mislove and Christo Wilson31. Responsible Research on Social Networks: Dilemmas and SolutionsJon Crowcroft, Hamed Haddadi and Tristan Henderson32. Unintended Consequences of Using Digital Methods in Difficult Research EnvironmentsKaty E. Pearce33. Ethical Issues in Internet Research: The Case of ChinaBo Mai and Maria Repnikova34. The Future of Communication ResearchSandra González-Bailón and Brooke Foucault WellesIndex
