Viewpoint – ‘Wither the survey?’

Mike Savage and Roger Burrows

It is commonplace to argue that the proliferation of new kinds of data and information has created huge social changes that we still do not really understand.
  

Viewpoint – 'Wither the survey?'

Mike SavageERSC Centre for Research on Socio-cultural Change

Roger BurrowsSociology at the University of York & the Social Informatics Research Unit (SIRU)

It is commonplace to argue that the proliferation of new kinds of data and information has created huge social changes that we still do not really understand. One interesting example is the worry of social scientists that their preferred data sources and modes of analysis are being challenged by the rise of new digital data sources.1These debates are causing considerable reflection about the very rationale of the...

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