Re-conceptualizing social research in the “digital era”. Issues of scholarships, methods, and epistemologies

Abstract

Análise Social , 228, liii (3.º), 2018, 652-671 Re-conceptualizing social research in the “digital era”. Issues of scholarships, methods, and epistemologies. The article discusses an emerging area of sociology that has come to be called “Digital Sociology” starting from the experience of a research project that provided a group of social scientists with the opportunity to experiment with a wide range of digital technologies, devices, and platforms for academic work. A literature review of recent contributions is put into a dialog with the empirical materials collected during the project, leading to the identification of a tentative research agenda to contribute to the development of this area of inquiry.