TY - JOUR
T1 - Editors' introduction to technology, data, and politics
AU - Greitens, Sheena Chestnut
AU - Koehler-Derrick, Gabriel
PY - 2013/4
Y1 - 2013/4
N2 - This symposium addresses the rise of Internet data-and, more broadly, the data that is generated by a range of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Global ICT growth could have wide-ranging implications for the study of politics, but political science is currently lagging behind other disciplines in its use of ICT-derived data-particularly compared to fields such as public health and economics (Nadav et al. 2011; Carneiro and Mylonakis 2009; Choi and Varian 2009; Christakis and Fowler 2009; Ginsberg et al. 2009; Jensen 2011). The articles in this symposium, therefore, focus on the question of how political scientists can and should think about using ICT-derived data in their research.
AB - This symposium addresses the rise of Internet data-and, more broadly, the data that is generated by a range of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Global ICT growth could have wide-ranging implications for the study of politics, but political science is currently lagging behind other disciplines in its use of ICT-derived data-particularly compared to fields such as public health and economics (Nadav et al. 2011; Carneiro and Mylonakis 2009; Choi and Varian 2009; Christakis and Fowler 2009; Ginsberg et al. 2009; Jensen 2011). The articles in this symposium, therefore, focus on the question of how political scientists can and should think about using ICT-derived data in their research.
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U2 - 10.1017/S1049096513000255
DO - 10.1017/S1049096513000255
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84875745514
SN - 1049-0965
VL - 46
SP - 259
EP - 261
JO - PS - Political Science and Politics
JF - PS - Political Science and Politics
IS - 2
ER -