1st Edition

Navigating the World of Digital Data The Challenges of Social Research Methods

By Maria Carmela Catone Copyright 2026
110 Pages
by Routledge

110 Pages
by Routledge

Navigating the World of Digital Data: The Challenges of Social Research Methods is a timely text that explores the emerging challenges and opportunities posed by digitalization in social research. This book brings together foundational methodological concepts with a reflective openness to innovation. It examines how the spread of digital technologies has generated an unprecedented flow of... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1. From Knowledge Processes to Data in Digital Space

Chapter 2. Spatial, Temporal and Relational Dimensions of Digital Data

Chapter 3. Key Methodological Concerns of Digital Data

Chapter 4. Developments and Limitations of Digital Data in the Age of AI

Conclusions

Biography

Maria Carmela Catone is a Researcher in Sociology at the University of Salerno, Italy, where she teaches Methodology and Techniques of Social Research and Digital Methods for Social Research. Her research interests include methodological issues, the challenges of conducting social research in the digital age, and the teaching and learning processes of social research methods in higher education.