马修•萨尔加尼克(Matthew J. Salganik)
普林斯顿大学社会学教授,同时任职于该校的信息技术政策中心、数据与机器学习中心等。《科学》杂志评价他是“纯然的计算社会学家”。他的研究方向是社会网络、计算社会学。他的研究曾被微软、脸谱网和谷歌资助,并被《纽约时报》《华尔街日报》《经济学人》《纽约客》等主流媒体报道,美国公共广播电台还专题报道过他的研究成果。
AI导读
核心看点
阐述数字时代社会研究四大支柱:观察、提问、实验与协作。
详解大数据十大特征,辨析其对研究利弊及伦理挑战。
提供从传统到计算社会学的研究设计指南与真实案例。
读者共识
案例丰富且逻辑清晰,是入门计算社会学的佳作。
译文整体流畅,但部分敏感内容缺失影响完整性。
兼具学术严谨性与启发性,适合拓展研究视野。
精彩摘录
"My favorite metaphor for this process was written by Dunn (1946) in the very first paragraph of the very first paper ever written on record linkage: "Each person in the world creates a Book of Life. This Book starts with birth and ends with death. Its pages are made up of records of the principal ev"
"If you care about changing minds, then your research should be simple...Simple research comes from a natural fit between question and data; in other words, good research design...Research design is about connecting questions and answers."
"This book began in 2005 in a basement at Columbia University. At the time, I was a graduate student, and I was running an online experiment that would eventually become my dissertation. I’ll tell you all about the scientific parts of that experiment in chapter 4, but now I’m going to tell you about "
"In each case, the change from analog to digital means that more data about you are being captured and stored digitally."