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369 - Section on Comparative-Historical Sociology Invited Session. Digitized (Big) Data and Comparative Historical Sociology
Mon, August 22, 10:30am to 12:10pm, TBASession Submission Type: Invited Session
Description
The emergence of the digital humanities and “big data” techniques offer comparative-historical sociologists the ability to pursue fundamental questions in new ways. This invited panel will highlight different types of digitized data and analytical strategies that scholars are innovating to tackle important comparative and historical questions.
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New Approaches to Historical Social Science - Christopher Michael Muller, University of California, Berkeley
Computers, Cognition, and Machine Learning: Toward a Human-Centered (Big) Data-Driven History - Laura K. Nelson, University of California Berkeley
Collective Identification and Elite Claims-Making in Political Fields: Studying Political Culture with Large-Scale Textual Data - Bart Bonikowski, Harvard University
The Crowd-Sourced Encyclopedia and the Enlightenment Project - Julia Potter Adams, Yale University