Over the past 25 years, technological improvements that have made the collection,
transmission, storage, and analysis of data significantly easier and more cost efficient have …

The internet plays a central role in much of contemporary parenting, which includes parent
participation in social media networks. When people use social media to support parenting …

In this work, we apply network science to analyse almost 6 M tweets about the debate
around immigration in Italy, collected between 2018 and 2019, when many related events …

Big data provides researchers with valuable sources of information for studying
demographic behavior in the population. One such source is the texts posted by social …

Students often experience various feelings when facing a new semester. Feelings such as
anxiety, fear, and excitement can occur when students take classes in online learning. As a …

Situated at the intersection of the computational and demographic sciences, digital and
computational demography explores how new digital data streams and computational …

The presence and integration of immigrants is one of the most controversial issues in our
society, and given current worldwide political instabilities, it will likely become ever more …

Previous research has shown that seemingly irrelevant events such as unexpected
outcomes in sporting events can affect mood and have relevant consequences for episodes …

The market for smartphone apps tracking menstrual cycles has grown in recent years. These
apps brand themselves as empowering users to take charge of their reproductive goals …

In the past few years, several demographers have pointed out the need to consider big data
in population studies. Some are in favour of data-driven approaches, as statistical algorithms …