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Epistemology of the Digital

Epistemology of the Digital

Enrica Amaturo, Biagio Aragona
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 10
ISBN13: 9781799884736|ISBN10: 1799884732|EISBN13: 9781799884743
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8473-6.ch001
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Amaturo, Enrica, and Biagio Aragona. "Epistemology of the Digital." Handbook of Research on Advanced Research Methodologies for a Digital Society, edited by Gabriella Punziano and Angela Delli Paoli, IGI Global, 2022, pp. 1-10. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8473-6.ch001

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Amaturo, E. & Aragona, B. (2022). Epistemology of the Digital. In G. Punziano & A. Delli Paoli (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Advanced Research Methodologies for a Digital Society (pp. 1-10). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8473-6.ch001

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Amaturo, Enrica, and Biagio Aragona. "Epistemology of the Digital." In Handbook of Research on Advanced Research Methodologies for a Digital Society, edited by Gabriella Punziano and Angela Delli Paoli, 1-10. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8473-6.ch001

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Abstract

The debate on the consequences that big data and computational techniques have generated in social sciences has developed from two opposite extremes. A consistent group of scholars today supports an active commitment of sociologists in dealing with the technological dimension of social investigation. The works developed by these “digital sociologists” focus on the definition of a method of social research that adopts a critical posture on the role that digital technology must have in scientific research but, at the same time, creative on the possibilities offered by technology to research. This posture requires great attention to the epistemology of the digital.

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