Data Revolution: Politics and Methods

Abstract

More and more issues political scientists have to deal with are connected to the digitalization of modern life. Social networks are a new forum for political debates, cyberwarfare is an increasing threat, and privacy is challenged by new forms of surveillance, to name some of the most obvious examples. At the core of this transformation lies the technological ability to treat more and more information as data: the digital traces of people’s interaction with computers and mobile devices are fed into computational systems trying to make sense out of it. To be able to analyze these developments has become a key question for political science nowadays. But the world of big data is not very common to political science and methods from computer science which are essential to deal with these new issues are not within the toolbox of traditional research. On the other hand, computational methods per se do not guarantee an understanding of the political dimension of the data revolution. The panel therefore encourages any paper that deals with political dimensions of data-driven topics or that presents methods that are helpful for political data scientists.

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