[ecrea] Call for Papers - Disertaciones

*Anuario electrónicode estudios en Comunicación Social "Disertaciones"*
https://revistas.urosario.edu.co/index.php/disertaciones/index

/Articles for Volume 13, Issue 1 (Jan-Jun 2020), on the topic of 
Technologies and Computational Methods for Research in Social Sciences 
and Communication/

The emergence of the Internet and the growing use of online tools is 
opening new challenges for social research. The interpretation of 
communication in digital environments barely shows its first paths of 
maturation. This new logic, distanced from the centralized production in 
mass media, requires a conceptual and procedural rethinking in the 
access and processing of social data, as a basic input of academic research.

Thanks to the increasing computational capacities, it is possible to 
consider the analysis of large volumes of data derived from a complex 
distributed production and registered from various communication devices 
highly personalized. The ubiquity and cheapening of sensor networks, Big 
Data and the new data analytics techniques allow us to implement new 
approaches to generation, preservation and analysis that make it 
possible to formulate and answer questions in new ways. New forms of 
data management and techniques are emerging, based on automatic learning 
and new modes of visualization.

What do these data tell us and why could they help us in the 
interpretation of social reality? What can we really extract from these 
enormous data sets (texts, images, audios and their combinations) and 
what can be the forms of interpretation and analysis? What is the border 
between quantity and quality of the data? What is the role of algorithms 
to extract, shape and represent social reality from a digital 
perspective? How to establish emergent relationships between content and 
knowledge in large-scale virtual communities, with collective discourses 
expressed in new contexts and with software and intelligent platforms? 
The roads, still incipient, give social research a rich panorama to 
learn in an environment in which language continues to operate as an 
expression of what is social.

As part of the new challenges, social research is inserted in an 
interdisciplinary search between different areas of knowledge, in order 
to enrich methodologies, organizational protocols and analysis in the 
collection, preservation and classification of data, perspective that we 
seek to compile in this monographic edition of Disertaciones.

With this new issue of the journal we aim to approach the Social 
Sciences from the perspective of computer systems as a transdisciplinary 
area useful for interpreting social reality, supported by traditional 
disciplines such as social psychology, anthropology, economics, 
political science and sociology. Among the research experiences, we can 
highlight network analysis, sentiment analysis and topic modeling.

We seek to summon the different empirical experiences that have covered 
options to answer conceptual and methodological questions around the 
collection, preservation, systematization and interpretation of social 
data derived from digital platforms. Contributions can come from 
different areas of knowledge, as long as they point to the enrichment of 
social research, from the inclusion of processing techniques, 
reflections and results in the interpretation of large volumes of social 
and cultural data, distributed on digital platforms.

Among the lines of research, we can highlight:

  - Those that gather theoretical perspectives, from classical or 
emerging approaches, to interpret the logic of digital interaction and 
its anchoring with social reality, pointing to epistemic (re)definitions 
derived from social research.

- Those that raise operational and procedural methodologies for access, 
preservation and visibility of data.

- Those that promote organizational methodologies from systematized 
procedures with an interdisciplinary perspective.

Qualitative and quantitative studies are accepted, from the variety of 
approaches associated with different areas of knowledge, linked with 
communication and social research, among which can be highlighted: 
psychology, political science, sociology, linguistics, education, and 
arts. We also welcome perspectives from other areas of knowledge, such 
as physics, mathematics and engineering, that can enrich this new path 
in academic research.

-          Deadline: 30/11/2018
-          Guest Editors: Ysabel Briceño-Romero (Universidad Autónoma de 
Bucaramanga, Colombia, (ybriceno /at/ unab.edu.co)) and Luis A. 
Núñez (Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, 
Colombia, (lnunez /at/ uis.edu.co)).

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