作为社会实验室的平台:数字资本主义如何影响北美的计算社会研究。

IF 2.9 2区 社会学 Q1 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Onurhan Ak
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当代人工智能和机器学习方法的流行导致了关于影响计算研究因素的丰富文献。本文利用实验室研究文献来研究平台的社会技术基础设施如何塑造当代计算社会科学研究。基于一个大学实验室18个月的在线人种志研究和对其研究人员的15次深度访谈,本文提出了两个主要论点。首先,对于计算社会科学来说,平台就像实验室一样,有选择地对社会进行雕刻和改造,使其通过计算方法可知。因此,它使得平台在计算社会研究中制造分析对象并提供社会作为一个领域。其次,由于社交媒体平台作为计算研究的数据实验室的重要性,与数据科学无领域的主张相反,这些科学可能会从数字资本主义中获得一些认识论和职业权力,以及文化权威。
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Platforms as laboratories of the social: How digital capitalism matters for computational social research in North America.

The contemporary prevalence of artificial intelligence and machine learning methods has resulted in a rich literature on the factors that shape computational research. This article draws on the laboratory studies literature to examine how platforms' socio-technical infrastructures shape contemporary computational social science research. Based on 18 months of online ethnography of a university laboratory and 15 in-depth interviews with its researchers, the article makes two main arguments. First, for computational social sciences, platforms function as laboratories where the social is selectively carved and transformed, to make it knowable with computational methods. Thus, it makes the case that platforms manufacture the objects of analysis in computational social research and provide the social as a domain. Second, because of the significance of social media platforms as data laboratories for computational research, in contrast to the claims of data sciences to be domainless, these sciences may derive some of their epistemological and occupational power, as well as their cultural authority, from digital capitalism.

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Social Studies of Science
Social Studies of Science 管理科学-科学史与科学哲学
CiteScore
5.70
自引率
6.70%
发文量
45
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>12 weeks
期刊介绍: Social Studies of Science is an international peer reviewed journal that encourages submissions of original research on science, technology and medicine. The journal is multidisciplinary, publishing work from a range of fields including: political science, sociology, economics, history, philosophy, psychology social anthropology, legal and educational disciplines. This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
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