Notice:About the sociology department of Wuhan university to hold the academic seminar of big data age calculation of sociology and social governance research
Big data era has arrived.The effect on economic, political, and cultural development and social governance has begun to emerge.Some argue that the big data is likely to mean that the arrival of a revolution for social science,In 2009 American scholar in the journal “science” published a paper and put forward the concept of "computational social science"for the first time ;Five years later on August 15, 2014, the American scholar held a conference called "new computational sociology"at Stanford university, the new concept for calculating the sociology was born.Someone divided the content of computational sociology into "the Internet and other large data acquisition and analysis", "Internet experimental studies in sociology", "fusion of qualitative research and quantitative research", "ABM simulation method in the application of sociological study", "research on and development of new social computing tools" .The new computational sociology study was quite rich, and its development is very rapid, the accumulation of research results is also very quickly.
Our big data research and computational social science in Chinese sociology and social governance under the background of big data has begun and has achieved preliminary results.In order to pursue the trend of international academic and communicate big data and the experience from social governance research , we jointly organized the relevant units seminar, invited domestic and foreign experts invited North America and Europe and well-known scholars in the field of sociology research ..Welcome domestic and foreign experts come to Wuhan university !
The organizer:Sociology department of Wuhan university
Undertaker:Social development research institute, Wuhan university
Sponsors: Suzhou , Southwest research institute, Guangdong institute
