The digital throws a bunch of methodological challenges. Does it tho?

What does sociology do?

I dunno. An academic tradition kickstarted by Durkheim and pals and then created an arbitrary
distinction about studying “society”

Methods

I mean, the first is the usage of the census, then they invented questionaries and statistical
analysis. Similarly they also used both theoretical rguments without any fucjing basis. And
interviews I guess.

Why are we talking about epistemology for babies?

We are going too center on ethics.

First essay for Feb 25 ass you to reflect on an ethical dilemma with a methodolical solution.

Research methods. Both ar empirical in so far as collecting research in a systematic way.

Rread Burrows sociological crisis.

Sociology was characterized as a series of distinctive methodological tools

But data science and others were passed over because they are not the rightful legitimators of
knowledge. Sociology became less mandatory.

The rise of commercial sociology. Predicated on the history of sociology. It puts in question the
role of sociologists as innovators

Knowing capitalism Thrift. READ THIS ONE.

Social data, a new way of how we understand the social world.

We need to be critical about the conditions of production of that data. “Interface methods”
History of the new methods.

Nre data points. New fields. And new ways to recopilate that data.

Also, greatly reduced research costs. But we need ethic reviews. Lurking is kinda ethically weird.

Debate between if Online spaces are separate and distinct social spaces that require their own
research methods and the other is that the traditional methods work and we can treat them the
same really. This are two different arguments really. Also, embedded and ubiquosness kinda
changed this.

Three big debates, old methods in new sites? A question about authenticity? Inherently different
spaces?

Phases 90s. Emancipaotry, new shit.

97s-02 Woolgar and pals. Debunking the myth of internet as transformative. Virtual society
programme.

2007. Cultural analytics, Analysis through massive bodies of data.

2009 Digital Methods. Were the internet is both a subject of study and a producer of data.

So what is digital research? Few areas don’t have digital articulation. Maybe think of it as
continuums and spaces?

Digital sociology as a label has a bunch of politics related to it. Some departments will tell you to
go fuck yourself if you identify as such and others will hug you.

Mess in social science research.

Methods don’t only describe social reality but are also involved in creating them.

RESEARCH DESIGN IS IMPORTANT GUIS. You should use methds that fit your design, not put data
first. It still weird that people have the data first.

QUALITATIVE DATA ARCHIVE. Should look into using it for teaching. Although I could make a data
set.