Handbook of Computational Social Science, Volume 1

Uwe Engel is Professor at the University of Bremen, Germany, where he held a chair in sociology from 2000 to 2020. From 2008 to 2013, Dr. Engel coordinated the Priority Programme on “Survey Methodology” of the German Research Foundation. His current research focuses on data science, human-robot interaction, and opinion dynamics. Anabel Quan-Haase is Professor of Sociology and Information and Media Studies at Western University and Director of the SocioDigital Media Lab, London, Canada. Her research interests include social media, social networks, life course, social capital, computational social science, and digital inequality/inclusion. Sunny Xun Liu is a research scientist at Stanford Social Media Lab, USA. Her research focuses on the social and psychological e- ects of social media and AI, social media and well-being, and how the design of social robots impacts psychological perceptions. Lars Lyberg was Head of the Research and Development Department at Statistics Sweden and professor at Stockholm University. He was an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. In 2018, he received the AAPOR Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement.

Preface






Introduction to the Handbook of Computational Social Science
Uwe Engel, Anabel Quan-Haase, Sunny Xun Liu and Lars Lyberg

Section I. The Scope and Boundaries of CSS




The Scope of Computational Social Science
Claudio Cioffi-Revilla




Analytical Sociology amidst a Computational Social Science Revolution
Benjamin F. Jarvis, Marc Keuschnigg and Peter Hedström




Computational Cognitive Modeling in the Social Sciences
Holger Schultheis




Computational Communication Science: Lessons from Working Group Sessions with Experts of an Emerging Research Field
Stephanie Geise and Annie Waldherr




A Changing Survey Landscape
Lars Lyberg and Steven G. Heeringa




Digital Trace Data: Modes of Data Collection, Applications, and Errors at a Glance
Florian Keusch and Frauke Kreuter




Open Computational Social Science
Jan G. Voelkel and Jeremy Freese




Causal and Predictive Modeling in Computational Social Science
Uwe Engel




Data-driven Agent-based Modeling in Computational Social Science
Jan Lorenz

Section II. Privacy, Ethics, and Politics in CSS Research




Ethics and Privacy in Computational Social Science: A Call for Pedagogy
William Hollingshead, Anabel Quan-Haase and Wenhong Chen




Deliberating with the Public: An Agenda to Include Stakeholder Input on Municipal "Big Data" Projects
James Popham, Jennifer Lavoie, Andrea Corradi and Nicole Coomber




Analysis of the Principled-AI Framework´s Constraints in Becoming a Methodological Reference for Trustworthy-AI Design
Daniel Varona and Juan Luis Suarez

Section III. Case Studies and Research Examples




Sensing Close-Range Proximity for Studying Face-to-Face Interaction
Johann Schaible, Marcos Oliveira, Maria Zens and Mathieu Génois




Social Media Data in Affective Science
Max Pellert, Simon Schweighofer and David Garcia




Understanding Political Sentiment: Using Twitter to Map the US 2016 Democratic Primaries
Niklas M Loynes and Mark J Elliot




The Social Influence of Bots and Trolls in Social Media
Yimin Chen




Social Bots and Social Media Manipulation in 2020: The Year in Review
Ho-Chun Herbert Chang, Emily Chen, Meiqing Zhang, Goran Muric, and Emilio Ferrara




A Picture is (still) Worth a Thousand Words: The Impact of Appearance and Characteristic Narratives on People’s Perceptions of Social Robots
Sunny Xun Liu, Elizabeth Arredondo, Hannah Miezkowski, Jeff Hancock and Byron Reeves




Data Quality and Privacy Concerns in Digital Trace Data: Insights from a Delphi Study on Machine Learning and Robots in Human Life
Uwe Engel and Lena Dahlhaus




Effective Fight Against Extremist Discourse On-Line: The Case of ISIS’s Propaganda
Séraphin Alava and Rasha Nagem




Public Opinion Formation on the Far Right

Michael Adelmund and Uwe Engel