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Cutting across multiple disciplines, this book maps out a new role for the public sociologist in the post-COVID world. It envisions a new kind of public sociology that brings together the digital and the physical to create public spaces where critical scholarship and active civic engagement can meet in a mutually reinforcing way.

Social psychology. --- Social media. --- User-generated media --- Communication --- User-generated content --- Mass psychology --- Psychology, Social --- Human ecology --- Psychology --- Social groups --- Sociology --- Applied sociology. --- Methodology.

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The Internet has enabled new forms of large-scale collaboration. Voluntary contributions by large numbers of users and co-producers lead to new forms of production and innovation, as seen in Wikipedia, open source software development, in social networks or on user-generated content platforms as well as in many firm-driven Web 2.0 services. Large-scale collaboration on the Internet is an intriguing phenomenon for scholarly debate because it challenges well established insights into the governance of economic action, the sources of innovation, the possibilities of collective action and the social, legal and technical preconditions for successful collaboration. Although contributions to the debate from various disciplines and fine-grained empirical studies already exist, there still is a lack of an interdisciplinary approach.

Internet --- Online social networks --- Business enterprises --- Information networks --- Cooperation --- User-generated content --- Academic-industrial collaboration --- Social aspects --- Economic aspects --- Computer networks

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Dieses Buch ist eine Open-Access-Publikation unter einer CC BY-NC 4.0 Lizenz. Fabian Pfaffenberger bewertet den wissenschaftlichen Nutzen von Twitter, indem er mehrere gängige Erhebungs- und Analysemethoden betrachtet. Twitter ist mittlerweile eine beliebte Quelle für Studien, obwohl der Kurznachrichtendienst nur bedingt für die Forschung geeignet ist: Eine eingeschränkte Repräsentativität, zeitlich begrenzte Datenverfügbarkeit und geringe Datenqualität mindern den wissenschaftlichen Nutzen. Dennoch rückt Twitter aufgrund seiner gesellschaftlichen und medialen Relevanz sowie dessen Masse an frei verfügbaren Daten zunehmend in den Fokus der Wissenschaft. Der Inhalt Konventionen und Struktur der Twitter-Kommunikation Methoden der Datensammlung auf Twitter Systeme der Datenverwaltung Methoden der Datenanalyse von Tweets Eignung von Twitter als Quelle wissenschaftlicher Analysen Die Zielgruppen Dozierende und Studierende der Sozialwissenschaften, Wirtschaftswissenschaften und Geisteswissenschaften Praktiker in den Bereichen Business Intelligence, Social Media Management Der Autor Fabian Pfaffenberger (M.Sc.) ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Kommunikationswissenschaft der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Social sciences. --- Communication. --- Social media. --- Social Sciences. --- Communication Studies. --- Social Media. --- Media and Communication. --- User-generated media --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Communication --- User-generated content --- Sociology --- Civilization --- social media --- communication

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This book explores how the Internet is connected to the global crisis of liberal democracy. Today, self-promotion is at the heart of many human relationships. The selfie is not just a social media gesture people love to hate. It is also a symbol of social reality in the age of the Internet. Through social media people have new ways of rating and judging themselves and one another, via metrics such as likes, shares, followers and friends. There are new thirsts for authenticity, outlets for verbal aggression, and social problems. Social media culture and neoliberalism dovetail and amplify one another, feeding social estrangement. With neoliberalism, psychosocial wounds are agitated and authoritarianism is provoked. Yet this new sociality also inspires resistance and political mobilisation. Illustrating ideas and trends with examples from news and popular culture, the book outlines and applies theories from Debord, Foucault, Fromm, Goffman, and Giddens, among others. Topics covered include the global history of communication technologies, personal branding, echo chamber effects, alienation and fear of abnormality. Information technologies provide channels for public engagement where extreme ideas reach farther and faster than ever before, and political differences are widened and inflamed. They also provide new opportunities for protest and resistance.

Social media --- Liberalism. --- Neoliberalism. --- Political aspects. --- User-generated media --- Communication --- User-generated content --- Neo-liberalism --- Liberalism --- Liberal egalitarianism --- Liberty --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Neoliberalism --- Globalization --- Digital networks --- Democracy --- Critical theory

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"This book focuses on the study of the remarkable new source of geographic information that has become available in the form of user-generated content accessible over the Internet through mobile and Web applications. The exploitation, integration and application of these sources, termed volunteered geographic information (VGI) or crowdsourced geographic information (CGI), offer scientists an unprecedented opportunity to conduct research on a variety of topics at multiple scales and for diversified objectives. The Handbook is organized in five parts, addressing the fundamental questions: What motivates citizens to provide such information in the public domain, and what factors govern/predict its validity?What methods might be used to validate such information? Can VGI be framed within the larger domain of sensor networks, in which inert and static sensors are replaced or combined by intelligent and mobile humans equipped with sensing devices? What limitations are imposed on VGI by differential access to broadband Internet, mobile phones, and other communication technologies, and by concerns over privacy? How do VGI and crowdsourcing enable innovation applications to benefit human society? Chapters examine how crowdsourcing techniques and methods, and the VGI phenomenon, have motivated a multidisciplinary research community to identify both fields of applications and quality criteria depending on the use of VGI. Besides harvesting tools and storage of these data, research has paid remarkable attention to these information resources, in an age when information and participation is one of the most important drivers of development. The collection opens questions and points to new research directions in addition to the findings that each of the authors demonstrates. Despite rapid progress in VGI research, this Handbook also shows that there are technical, social, political and methodological challenges that require further studies and research."

Geographic information systems. --- Human computation. --- User-generated content. --- User-created content --- Electronic information resources --- Social media --- Crowdsourcing (Distributed artificial intelligence) --- Human-based computation --- Human computation systems --- Distributed artificial intelligence --- Human-computer interaction --- Geographical information systems --- GIS (Information systems) --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Geography