Big Data Research ›› 2016, Vol. 2 ›› Issue (2): 3-16.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.2096-0271.2016014

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Big data and social studies in China’s governance: status quo, problems, and prospects

Shizheng FENG   

  1. School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China
  • Online:2016-03-20 Published:2020-09-29
  • Supported by:
    Research Funds for Central Universities, and the Research Funds of Renmin University of China “The Online Collective Action in Current China”(13XNL005)

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Abstract:

The two potential orientations that are scientific research and social application, in big data studies, and their relationship were clarified. In light of this, the chances, challenges that big data brings and its weakness towards social studies were explored. Based on specifying the three properties of big data as statistical numbers, as social processes, and as technical functions, their respective positions of different disciplines in big data-based social studies, and both the difficulties and their sources in cooperation between different disciplines were shed light on.

Key words: big data, social study, social governance, social computation, social statistics

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