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How Digital Technologies Are Transforming Social Sciences

[Kak tsifrovye tekhnologii transformiruiut sotsial’nye nauki]

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S086954150008753-8

Type of publication: Research Article

Submitted: 11.11.2019

Accepted: 02.03.2019

About author(s)

Liliia Zemnukhova | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2938-3629 | l.zemnukhova@gmail.com | Sociological Institute of the FCTAS RAS (25/14 7 th Krasnoarmeyskaya Str., St. Petersburg, 190005, Russia)

Keywords

digital technologies, social sciences, data, methodology, digital humanities, digital literacy

Abstract

Digital technologies are transforming social sciences. Social networks, mobile applications, digital trac- es, virtual spaces, and much more either become an independent object of research or turn out to be inextricably linked to the “material” everyday life. But digital technologies require the formation of new skills (for example, digital literacy) for different stages of working with data – from their collection and processing to interpretation. Besides, disciplinary boundaries, methodological principles, and a general approach to research design are being rethought in connection with the proliferation of digital practices. The article discusses the changes that occur in the social sciences due to the spread of digital technolo- gies and data, as well as the mixing of the boundaries of disciplines in research practice.

 

Funding Information

https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002261 [17-33-01173]

Citation

Zemnukhova, L.V. 2020. How Digital Technologies Are Transforming Social Sciences [Kak tsifrovye tekhnologii transformiruiut sotsial’nye nauki]. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 1: 23–33. https://doi.org/10.31857/S086954150008753-8

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