The integration of social science with computer science and engineering fields has
produced a new area of study: computational social science. This field applies …

This article proposes a three-step methodological framework called computational grounded
theory, which combines expert human knowledge and hermeneutic skills with the …

At the end of January 2011, Mubarak faced such a combination of long-, medium-and short-
term factors that he had no way to counter:(1) The explosive growth of the population of …

Advances in computer science and computational linguistics have yielded new, and faster,
computational approaches to structuring and analyzing textual data. These approaches …

This study analyzes large language models (LLMs) as a methodology for computational
sociology, focusing on applications to supervised text classification. We consider how the …

Students in social science courses communicate, socialize, shop, learn, and work online.
When they are asked to collect data for course projects they are often drawn to social media …

The huge amount of data made available by the massive usage of social media has opened
up the unprecedented possibility to carry out a data-driven study of political processes …

How can generative artificial intelligence (GAI) be used for sociological research? The
author explores applications to the study of text and images across multiple domains …

Using the frequency of keywords is a classic approach in the formal analysis of text, but has
the drawback of glossing over the relationality of word meanings. Word embedding models …

Social movement researchers argue that tactical innovation occurs as a response to
changes external to movements, such as police repression and shifts in political authority, or …