Research Handbook on Digital Sociology

Edited by Jan Skopek, Associate Professor in Sociology, Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Contents:

PART I INTRODUCTION
1 Introduction and overview to the Research Handbook on Digital Sociology 2
Jan Skopek
2 Social theory and the internet in everyday life 23
Pu Yan

PART II RESEARCHING THE DIGITAL SOCIETY
3 Digital and computational demography 47
Ridhi Kashyap and R. Gordon Rinderknecht, with Aliakbar Akbaritabar,
Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Sofia Gil-Clavel, André Grow, Jisu Kim, Douglas R.
Leasure, Sophie Lohmann, Daniela V. Negraia, Daniela Perrotta, Francesco
Rampazzo, Chia-Jung Tsai, Mark D. Verhagen, Emilio Zagheni, and Xinyi Zhao
4 Digital technologies and the future of social surveys 86
Marcel Das and Tom Emery
5 Mobile devices and the collection of social research data 100
Bella Struminskaya and Florian Keusch
6 Unlocking big data: at the crossroads of computer science and the social
sciences 114
Oliver Posegga
7 Regression and machine learning 129
Lukas Erhard and Raphael Heiberger
8 Investigating social phenomena with agent-based models 145
Pablo Lucas and Thomas Feliciani
9 Inclusive digital focus groups: lessons from working with citizens with
limited digital literacies 160
Elinor Carmi, Eleanor Lockley, and Simeon Yates

PART III ANALYSING DIGITAL LIVES AND ONLINE INTERACTION
10 Social networking site use in professional contexts 178
Christine Anderl, Lea Baumann, and Sonja Utz
11 Online dating and relationship formation 194
Maureen Coyle and Cassandra Alexopoulos
12 Studying mate choice using digital trace data from online dating 210
Jan Skopek
13 Testing sociological theories with digital trace data from online markets 241
Wojtek Przepiorka
14 Using YouTube data for social science research 258
Johannes Breuer, Julian Kohne, and M. Rohangis Mohseni
15 Automated image analysis for studying online behaviour 278
Carsten Schwemmer, Saïd Unger, and Raphael Heiberger

PART IV DIGITAL PARTICIPATION AND INEQUALITY
16 Social disparities in adolescents’ educational ICT use at home: how
digital and educational inequalities interact 293
Birgit Becker
17 The early roots of the digital divide: socioeconomic inequality in
children’s ICT literacy from primary to secondary schooling 307
Giampiero Passaretta and Carlos J. Gil-Hernández
18 Digital inequalities and adolescent mental health: the role of
socioeconomic background, gender, and national context 328
Pablo Gracia, Melissa Bohnert, and Seyma Celik
19 The gender gap in digital skills in cross-national perspective 348
José-Luis Martínez-Cantos

PART V CONSEQUENCES OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
20 Doing family in the digital age 365
Claudia Zerle-Elsäßer, Alexandra N. Langmeyer, Thorsten Naab, and
Stephan Heuberger
21 The mental health cost of swiping: is dating app use linked to greater
stress and depressive symptoms? 379
Gina Potarca and Julia Sauter
22 Social media and well-being at work, at home, and in-between: a review 398
Julius Klingelhoefer and Adrian Meier
23 The digital transition of the economy and its consequences for the
labour market 419
Werner Eichhorst and Gemma Scalise
24 Further training in the context of the digital transformation 433
Thomas Kruppe and Julia Lang
25 Digital campaigning: how digital media change the work of parties and
campaign organizations and impact elections
Research handbook on digital sociology 446
Andreas Jungherr

Index