Matthew Salganik
@msalganik.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology, Princeton, www.princeton.edu/~mjs3
Author of Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age, bitbybitbook.com
Author of Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age, bitbybitbook.com
I don't think anyone tried to predict the next wave, but we did in-depth qualitative interviews to try to understand the origins of unpredictability: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The origins of unpredictability in life outcome prediction tasks | PNAS
Why are some life outcomes difficult to predict? We investigated this question through
in-depth qualitative interviews with 40 families sampled fro...
www.pnas.org
March 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I don't think anyone tried to predict the next wave, but we did in-depth qualitative interviews to try to understand the origins of unpredictability: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
No plans for a 2nd edition of Bit by Bit. I'm - slowly - working on a new book on a different topic. It took me years to write Bit by Bit, & I think this new book will take even longer . . . but let's hope not.
January 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
No plans for a 2nd edition of Bit by Bit. I'm - slowly - working on a new book on a different topic. It took me years to write Bit by Bit, & I think this new book will take even longer . . . but let's hope not.
Ethics doesn't have to be too abstract. You can lead with real examples from real CSS research that have sparked debate and then show students how to reason about them.
January 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Ethics doesn't have to be too abstract. You can lead with real examples from real CSS research that have sparked debate and then show students how to reason about them.
Here are some other teaching materials from people using Bit by Bit in their classes: www.bitbybitbook.com/en/teaching/
Bit By Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age
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January 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Here are some other teaching materials from people using Bit by Bit in their classes: www.bitbybitbook.com/en/teaching/
At Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (SICSS) we did ethics first & it worked well. It was a good way to get people talking and exposed to different disciplinary norms, both of which are good for learning. Here's what we did at SICSS: sicss.io/2021/princet...
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January 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
At Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (SICSS) we did ethics first & it worked well. It was a good way to get people talking and exposed to different disciplinary norms, both of which are good for learning. Here's what we did at SICSS: sicss.io/2021/princet...