Sociology in digital environment: towards digital social research

Sociology in digital environment:
towards digital social research


Zhuravleva Е.Yu.

Cand. Sci. (Philos.), Assoc. Prof., Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, Vologda, Russia eresearch7@gmail.com

ID of the Article: 5609


For citation:

Zhuravleva Е.Yu. Sociology in digital environment: towards digital social research. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological Studies]. 2015. No 8. P. 25-33




Abstract

The article describes models of research practices in the digital network environment that expand boundaries of sociological and social research: “computational social science”, “computational sociology”, “e-social science”, “digital sociology”, “digital social science”, “digital social research”. Particular attention is paid to re-location of this type of research from academic institutions to corporate research laboratories in order to ascertain relationship of the above models with digital social sciences on the level of methods and common projects.


Keywords
computational social science; computational sociology; e-social science; digital sociology; digital social science; digital social research
Content No 8, 2015