Editors' introduction to technology, data, and politics

Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Gabriel Koehler-Derrick

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)259-261
Number of pages3
JournalPS - Political Science and Politics
Volume46
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2013

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Sociology and Political Science

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