Research Handbook on Digital Sociology

Edited by Jan Skopek, Associate Professor in Sociology, Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

‘This Handbook provides a rich and wide range of research using digital tools and approaches. The chapters cover a variety of domains and provide an excellent overview of the state of the art in the field.’

• Contents:PART I INTRODUCTION1 Introduction and overview to the Research Handbook on Digital Sociology 2Jan Skopek2 Social theory and the internet in everyday life 23Pu YanPART II RESEARCHING THE DIGITAL SOCIETY3 Digital and computational demography 47Ridhi Kashyap and R. Gordon Rinderknecht, with Aliakbar Akbaritabar,Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Sofia Gil-Clavel, André Grow, Jisu Kim, Douglas R.Leasure, Sophie Lohmann, Daniela V. Negraia, Daniela Perrotta, FrancescoRampazzo, Chia-Jung Tsai, Mark D. Verhagen, Emilio Zagheni, and Xinyi Zhao4 Digital technologies and the future of social surveys 86Marcel Das and Tom Emery5 Mobile devices and the collection of social research data 100Bella Struminskaya and Florian Keusch6 Unlocking big data: at the crossroads of computer science and the socialsciences 114Oliver Posegga7 Regression and machine learning 129Lukas Erhard and Raphael Heiberger8 Investigating social phenomena with agent-based models 145Pablo Lucas and Thomas Feliciani9 Inclusive digital focus groups: lessons from working with citizens withlimited digital literacies 160Elinor Carmi, Eleanor Lockley, and Simeon YatesPART III ANALYSING DIGITAL LIVES AND ONLINE INTERACTION10 Social networking site use in professional contexts 178Christine Anderl, Lea Baumann, and Sonja Utz11 Online dating and relationship formation 194Maureen Coyle and Cassandra Alexopoulos12 Studying mate choice using digital trace data from online dating 210Jan Skopek13 Testing sociological theories with digital trace data from online markets 241Wojtek Przepiorka14 Using YouTube data for social science research 258Johannes Breuer, Julian Kohne, and M. Rohangis Mohseni15 Automated image analysis for studying online behaviour 278Carsten Schwemmer, Saïd Unger, and Raphael HeibergerPART IV DIGITAL PARTICIPATION AND INEQUALITY16 Social disparities in adolescents’ educational ICT use at home: howdigital and educational inequalities interact 293Birgit Becker17 The early roots of the digital divide: socioeconomic inequality inchildren’s ICT literacy from primary to secondary schooling 307Giampiero Passaretta and Carlos J. Gil-Hernández18 Digital inequalities and adolescent mental health: the role ofsocioeconomic background, gender, and national context 328Pablo Gracia, Melissa Bohnert, and Seyma Celik19 The gender gap in digital skills in cross-national perspective 348José-Luis Martínez-CantosPART V CONSEQUENCES OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE20 Doing family in the digital age 365Claudia Zerle-Elsäßer, Alexandra N. Langmeyer, Thorsten Naab, andStephan Heuberger21 The mental health cost of swiping: is dating app use linked to greaterstress and depressive symptoms? 379Gina Potarca and Julia Sauter22 Social media and well-being at work, at home, and in-between: a review 398Julius Klingelhoefer and Adrian Meier23 The digital transition of the economy and its consequences for thelabour market 419Werner Eichhorst and Gemma Scalise24 Further training in the context of the digital transformation 433Thomas Kruppe and Julia Lang25 Digital campaigning: how digital media change the work of parties andcampaign organizations and impact electionsResearch handbook on digital sociology 446Andreas JungherrIndex