Big Social Media Data als epistemologische Herausforderung für die Soziologie

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Soziologie des Digitalen - Digitale Soziologie?

Soziale Welt - Sonderband 23

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Big Social Media Data als epistemologische Herausforderung für die Soziologie

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By challenging conventional social science research methods, 'Big Data' is currently the subject of a critical discourse in sociology. The epistemological foundations of social science research are as much at stake, as is the significance of the theory of science as the basis of (social) scientific work and the question of who gets to speak with authority about 'the social' and is being heard. Does Big Data enable new insights? How can the findings be verified methodologically and ethically? This contribution argues that the epistemological questions that arise with Big Data are related to the various experiences that arise in everyday research work. The everyday practices of researchers and their concrete problems in dealing with data (from accessing it to publishing findings) need more attention in the discussion about Big Data’s epistemology; these practices are deployed in the context of the academic job market, publication policies, high costs of interdisciplinary work and an increasingly important role of social media platform providers. Big Data research is often conducted in (emerging) disciplines hat have no tradition of theorising scientific knowledge production. Uncomfortable, laborious and time-consuming ways of generating knowledge - which, for example, not always generate positive results and are difficult to maintain when faced with ever higher publication pressures as they prevail in more and more disciplines - are called for to create the necessary space for reflection on the epistemology of Big Data. The current situation offers an opportunity to bring in epistemological thinking and to identify points of contact where sociology and Big Data research can meet in order to unlock Big Data's potential by grounding it on epistomological foundations that have been subjected to critical reflection.

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