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Editors' Introduction to Technology, Data, and Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2013

Sheena Chestnut Greitens  and
Gabriel Koehler-Derrick
Sheena Chestnut Greitens
Affiliation:
Harvard University, guest editor
Gabriel Koehler-Derrick
Affiliation:
United States Military Academy, West Point, guest editor
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This symposium addresses the rise of Internet data—and, more broadly, the data that is generated by a range of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Global ICT growth could have wide-ranging implications for the study of politics, but political science is currently lagging behind other disciplines in its use of ICT-derived data—particularly compared to fields such as public health and economics (Nadav et al. 2011; Carneiro and Mylonakis 2009; Choi and Varian 2009; Christakis and Fowler 2009; Ginsberg et al. 2009; Jensen 2011). The articles in this symposium, therefore, focus on the question of how political scientists can and should think about using ICT-derived data in their research.

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Symposium: Technology, Data, and Politics
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , April 2013 , pp. 259 - 261
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2013

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