Innovation

2018 SAGE Concept Grant Winners Interview- Ken Benoit from Quanteda
Innovation
May 28, 2019

2018 SAGE Concept Grant Winners Interview- Ken Benoit from Quanteda

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2018 SAGE Concept Grant Winners Interview- Digital DNA Toolbox
Innovation
May 22, 2019

2018 SAGE Concept Grant Winners Interview- Digital DNA Toolbox

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Try Out – and Build On – Our Social Science Terminology Service
Innovation
May 21, 2019

Try Out – and Build On – Our Social Science Terminology Service

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3 Possibilities for Combining Data & Social Science
Innovation
May 16, 2019

3 Possibilities for Combining Data & Social Science

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Trans-Atlantic Approaches to Impact and Knowledge Exchange

Trans-Atlantic Approaches to Impact and Knowledge Exchange

For this fifth article in the series of measuring impact, Louis Coiffait spoke to two leading UK experts who also know other countries; Dr Hamish McAlpine, head of knowledge exchange data and evidence at Research England, and Sean Fielding, director of innovation, impact and business at the University of Exeter, and also the chair of the UK national knowledge exchange association, PraxisAuril.

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Fast Professor: WeChat and Future Academe

Fast Professor: WeChat and Future Academe

Daniel Nehring describes China’s social networking platform WeChat as ‘Facebook on steroids,’ and notes it has long surpassed e-mail as the main tool of mediating communication at Chinese universities while obliterating boundaries between work and home. Is this a cautionary tale for academe outside of China?

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Collecting Social Media Data for Research

Collecting Social Media Data for Research

How can researchers use social media data in their research? The digitalization of social life offers researchers an unprecedented world of data with which to study human life and social systems. However, accessing this data has become increasingly difficult. Jason Radford here is to help you figure out what approach is right for you.

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What Can We Afford to Forget If Machines Do Our Remembering?

What Can We Afford to Forget If Machines Do Our Remembering?

Outsourcing our memories — or actually forgetting once-vital skills that no longer matter in our daily lives — has always been with humanity. But how does the drift to artificial intelligence reflect what’s always been the case versus what should be a special case?

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Library Collections a Treasure Trove for Social Science Research

Library Collections a Treasure Trove for Social Science Research

WorldCat, an aggregate database of library catalogs worldwide, was primarily set up to aid libraries in carrying out their work in areas such as cataloging or resource sharing. Brian Lavoie offers an insight into the types of questions WorldCat data can provide answers to, and how research of this kind also amplifies the value and impact of library collections.

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What Skills Will Social Scientists Need for the Future?

What Skills Will Social Scientists Need for the Future?

Watch the SAGE Ocean panel event from the ESRC Festival of Social Science on what skills social scientists will need to be able to do the social research of the future.

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VR in Social Science Research: Future or Fad?

VR in Social Science Research: Future or Fad?

In February SAGE Ocean ran an enthralling event experience. Three panelists, two hosts and about 20 attendees all put their headsets on from their labs, offices and homes to join a virtual classroom decorated with trees, a castle, a slightly scary tiger and a hippo, to talk about the future of VR in social science research.

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DARPA Aims to Score Social and Behavioral Research

DARPA Aims to Score Social and Behavioral Research

The U.S. military’s innovation incubator, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has signed the Center for Open Science to create a research claims database as DARPA’s first step to assign a ‘credibility score’ to social and behavioral science research.

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