DiMaggio: I wish there was a way to document conversations offline as well as online. (Maybe then we need other qualitative methods!) #asa17
Mohr: In my day, we’d do word searches. If we got crazy, word co-occurence. Today - focus on how people understand 21st c. texts. #asa17
Rule: You quickly get from a technical question (how to use big data) to questions about the contexts that we think meaning matters. #asa17
Rule: Searching for “mental hospital” as a search term online when that term has eclipsed is not the way to generate big data! #asa17
Rule: You need some way of selecting the texts you are going to analyze (regardless of if such texts exist online). #asa17
Swidler suggests that those moments in meetings when people know one idea is the “right” one could actually exist at the macro level. #asa17
Swidler: In what places do cultural logics matter. Big data help identify turning points at which new set of ideas become dominant. #asa17
Mohr: Let’s try to understand the history of knowledge (using big data). Those are the things that excite me. #asa17
Rule: “I’m very intimidated on this panel already, so I’m just going to pass (on the question).” hehee. #asa17
Mohr: Everybody in the world dumps what they think into the internet. But how do you get it (the data)? No training. #asa17
Bail: despite cultural sociology’s interdisciplinary origins it has been slow to take on computational social science. Why? #asa17
Bail: re: “big data” or “computational social science” — how can these well-streams of data can answer old questions about sociology? #asa17
Stoked for the next session, “Culture and Computational Social Science” #asa17 http://tinyurl.com/n5hrudc
Next up, Anderson’s “Implementation and Institutionalization of Policies and Routines: Case of School-Based Restorative Justice” #asa17
Next up, Debs & Weiss’ “Between Autonomy and Structure: Parents of Color and Discipline at Montessori and No-Excuse Schools” #asa17
Preiss finds racial differences among youth in perceptions of school authority, 90% of which vary most within-school. #asa17
Preiss took a student POV re: school authority, and generated quant models to evaluate it — student “buy-in” with teachers matter. #asa17
Next up, Preiss’ “Questioning School Authority: How Race Shape Students’ Perceptions of School Disciplinary Climates” #asa17
Waking up for my first #asa17 talk on school-influences of bullying. If you’re awake, come by 513c! http://tinyurl.com/lkxwt5k
Next up, Cameron's "Social Inequalities in Video Games: Understanding Gaming Culture through Online and Offline Practices" #asa17
Could it also mean that schools need to better adapt to digital tech and kids’ youth cultures to help them out? #asa17
Dinsmore: school permitted students to use smartphones at school. She says it created a third space the school couldn’t supervise. #asa17
Dinsmore argues school messaging about what counts as bullying/how to handle it actually makes it harder for youth to do so. #asa17 #citams
Next up, Dinsmore’s “Disciplining Drama: Schools Responding to Online Peer Aggression in a Mediated School Environment” #asa17
Chong argues that contemporary book reviewers (in an era of “everyone” reviews) is driven by nepotism, but described as serendipity. #asa17
Barnard makes an argument for volume, rather than influence through affiliation, to explain what matters on Twitter in the trump era. #asa17
First up, keynote address by Nicholas Boston, “Working Inside the Mediatic Mise-en-Abyme: A Humanistic Read of Convergence” #asa17