Inequality, jobless youth and social media will be a ...

Inequality, jobless youth and social media will be a combustible mix for 2017

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The United Kingdom voting to leave the European Union. The election of Donald Trump as US president. The rejection of Italian PM Matteo Renzi's constitutional referendum. All of these events have contributed to the view that 2016 was a pivotal year in the growing anti-establishment,...

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Big Data and the Survival of the Scientific Method « Bad ...

This is a guest post by Jen Schradie. Jen is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California-Berkeley and the Berkeley Center for New Media. She has a master's degree in sociology from UC Berkeley and a MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School. Using both statistical methods and qualitative fieldwork, her research is at the intersection of social media, social...

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