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利用网络做社会科学

Using the Web to do Social Science
课程网址: http://videolectures.net/acmmm2010_watts_uws/  
主讲教师: Duncan Watts
开课单位: 微软公司
开课时间: 2011-02-01
课程语种: 英语
中文简介:
社会科学通常关注的是在大量个体的相互作用中出现的集体行为;但在这方面,它长期遭受着一个严重的测量问题——即人与人之间的相互作用是很难测量的,尤其是在规模、时间和同时观察行为。在这篇演讲中,邓肯会说互联网的技术革命正开始解除这种限制。为了说明这一点,他将列举四个研究案例,这些研究在十年前是极其困难的,甚至是不可能完成的:*使用电子邮件交流及时追踪社交网络发展*使用一个基于web的实验研究集体社会影响决策的后果*使用社交网站研究感知之间的差异和实际的同质性态度的朋友*使用亚马逊的土耳其机器人研究激励底层的人群采购尽管基于互联网的研究仍然面临着严重的方法论和程序性障碍,邓肯提出,在个人层面上真正研究“社会”动态的能力,将对社会科学产生重大影响。
课程简介: Social science is often concerned with the emergence of collective behavior out of the interactions of large numbers of individuals; but in this regard it has long suffered from a severe measurement problem - namely that interactions between people are hard to measure, especially at scale, over time, and at the same time as observing behavior. In this talk, Duncan will argue that the technological revolution of the Internet is beginning to lift this constraint. To illustrate, he will describe four examples of research that would have been extremely difficult, or even impossible, to perform just a decade ago: * Using email exchange to track social networks evolving in time * Using a web-based experiment to study the collective consequences of social influence on decision making * Using a social networking site to study the difference between perceived and actual homogeneity of attitudes among friends * Using Amazon's Mechanical Turk to study the incentives underlying 'crowd sourcing' Although internet-based research still faces serious methodological and procedural obstacles, Duncan proposes that the ability to study truly 'social' dynamics at individual-level resolution will have dramatic consequences for social science.
关 键 词: 网路; 社会科学; 社交网站
课程来源: 视频讲座网
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