Бакалавриат
2021/2022
Специальные темы социальной информатики
Статус:
Курс по выбору (Социология и социальная информатика)
Направление:
39.03.01. Социология
Кто читает:
Департамент социологии
Где читается:
Санкт-Петербургская школа социальных наук
Когда читается:
4-й курс, 3 модуль
Формат изучения:
с онлайн-курсом
Онлайн-часы:
32
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Преподаватели:
Зубарев Никита Сергеевич
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
6
Контактные часы:
2
Course Syllabus
Abstract
We will build our work around the understanding of how statistics and computation work in social, applied and CS research, focusing on acquiring deeper understanding of statistical inference based on observational and experimental data and focusing on “big data” research using digital methods. If you are planning to do a quantitative study for your thesis, this course will help you to think about suitable research design early on, hopefully leading to better results and less issues. If you think on continuing your career or education in quantitative directions – from high-profile MSc programmes in quantitative social science, data, business analytics or UX analytics, this course might help you to build necessary conceptual and computational foundation in these areas. We will use simulations, pictures and intuition more than math and use online course materials and extra reading as a backbone for our discussion and simulations, so this course should be accessible for those without Data Science minor or alternative experience. However, the course will require large amount of independent work.
Learning Objectives
- equipping students with tools to transform ideas and apply theories to practice, using modern (“digital”) research methods and tools of social informatics
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Applies modern social research methods and models to study behavior, decision making and social phenomena using tools of social informatics
- Creates research proposals describing possible application of modern research methods and tools of social informatics to the areas of choice, presents and discusses it
- Formulates goals and research questions to observational and experimental studies using tools of social informatics
Course Contents
- Introduction to the course. Digital research design. Statistics, Experiment, Simulation
- Observing Behavior using Digital Data
- Research Questions and Methods. Experiments
- Human Computation & Citizen Science
- Modern statistical inference
- Digital Research Designs
Assessment Elements
- Research Design ProposalIf the task or part of the task with separate deadline was submitted up to an hour after the deadline, the score for it is reduced by 10%, up to 6 hours - by 30%, up to 24 hours – by 60%, after that the task or its part is not accepted resulting in 0 grade.
- Peer Review of Research Design.
- Online Course Tests
Interim Assessment
- 2021/2022 3rd module0.5 * Online Course Tests + 0.2 * Peer Review of Research Design. + 0.3 * Research Design Proposal
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Manzo, G. (2014). Analytical Sociology : Actions and Networks. Hoboken: Wiley. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=714658
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Chen, S.-H. (2018). Big Data in Computational Social Science and Humanities. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1944799
- Eric Silverman. (2018). Methodological Investigations in Agent-Based Modelling: With Applications for the Social Sciences. Web server without geographic relation, Web server without geographic relation (org): Springer. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.36B944A9