Digital methods of social research 3500-SCC-CMBS

Salganik, M. (2017). Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Literature for individual blocks:
1) digital ethnography:
Boellstorff, T., B. Nardi, C. Pearce and T.L. Taylor (2012). Ethnography and Virtual Worlds. A Handbook of Method. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Frömming, S. Köhn, S. Fox and M. Terry (eds.) (2017). Digital Environments Ethnographic Perspectives across Global Online and Offline Spaces, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag
Jemielniak, D. (2013). Virtual wild life. Netography of Wikipedia, the largest project co-created by people. Warsaw: Poltext

2) on-line questionnaire surveys:
Callegaro, Mario, Katja Lozar Manfreda, and Vasja Vehovar. Web Survey Methodology. Sage Publications Ltd, 2015.
Dillman, Don, Jolene Smyth, and Leah Christian. Internet, Mail, and Mixed-mode Surveys. New York: Wiley, 2009.
Groves, R.M., Fowler, F.J., Jr., Couper, M.P., Lepkowski, J.M., Singer, E., and
Tourangeau, R., Survey Methodology. New York: John Wiley, 2004.
Toepoel, Vera. Doing Surveys Online. Sage Publications Ltd, 2015.

3) analysis of registry data:
Jasiński, M., Bożykowski, M., Chłoń-Domińczak, A., Zając, T., Żołtak, M. (2017). Who gets a job after graduation? Factors affecting the early career employment of higher education graduates in Poland. Education, 143 (4), 17-30. https://doi.org/10.24131/3724.170402
Jasiński, M., Bożykowski, M., Zając, T., Styczeń, M., Izdebski, A. (2015). More precisely, more reliable, cheaper. Research based on public registers as an opportunity for social research in Poland. Sociological Studies, 1 (216), 45-72.
Wallgren, A., Wallgren, B. (2007). Register-based Statistics. Administrative Data for Statistical Purposes. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons (selected fragments).
Zając, T., Jasiński, M., Bożykowski, M. (2017). Does It Pay To Be A STEM Graduate? Evidence from the Polish Graduate Tracking System. Center for Studies in Higher Education, 1-9.
Zając, T., Jasiński, M., Bożykowski, M. (2018). Early Careers of Tertiary Graduates in Poland: Employability, Earnings, and Differences between Public and Private Higher Education. Polish Sociological Review, 2, 187-208. https://doi.org/10.26412/psr202.03

4) modelling and simulations:
Baczko-Dombi, A. and Komendant-Brodowska, A. (2013). The theory of rational choice - integration of social sciences. Application of the James Coleman diagram in the analysis of social phenomena. In: P. Ścigaj, and B. Krauz-Mozer (ed.), Research and methodological approaches in science about politics (pp. 339-348). Krakow: Academic Bookstore.
Cioffi-Revilla, C. (2014). Introduction to computational social science. Principles and applications. London, UK: Springer-Verlag (or other work of Cioffi-Revilli)
Jackson, M. O. (2010). Social and economic networks. Princeton university press. (Excerpts)

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