Academic Computing and the Social Sciences
A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2024) | Viewed by 323
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Too often we think of “computer science and the social sciences as two separate horizons of observation” (Issar and Aneesh, 2022), two worldviews that often seem incommensurable with one another. While researchers within the social sciences have for some time made use of computational methods, the reverse has been much less common.
However, in recent years, scholars within computing have begun to recognize that computing may have much in common with the social sciences, despite computing’s long-term identification with the natural and mathematical sciences. Recent computing research across the past decade has already been expanding beyond its traditional topics and now includes using computational lenses to examine social, psychological, and cultural phenomena more generally.
This Special Issue is devoted to expanding the dialog between computing and the social sciences, one which continues the process of bringing together these two oft-separate horizons. This dialog is one that the computing discipline needs to engage in more than ever, as computational innovations play a larger and larger role in the transformations occurring in a digital society in the 21st century.
As such, this Special Issue would welcome contributions that theorize/historicize the relationship between computing and the social sciences, that provide practical illustrations of research that straddles these two domains, or that articulates educational approaches for doing so.
Biography:
Randy Connolly is a Professor of Mathematics and Computing at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada. His teaching specialties are web development and technology and society studies. His research has oscillated between his two backgrounds of computer science and political science, and includes the teaching of web development, the general pedagogy of computing education, and the social effects of computing, especially that of ICT on citizenship orientations. His 2020 paper “Why Computing Belongs Within the Social Sciences” has become one of the most downloaded articles on the ACM/IEEE Digital Library.
Prof. Randy Connolly
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- computing
- social sciences
- curricula
- ethics
- computational social science
- computing education
- interdisciplinary approaches
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