PROGRAM
Days: Monday, September 22nd Tuesday, September 23rd Wednesday, September 24th Thursday, September 25th
Monday, September 22nd
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11:00-13:00 Session 1: 2-Creativity and sociology. Using creative sources in sociological research 1/2
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11:00 | Found Poems: Creative Methods as Data Analysis (abstract) |
11:15 | Narrative Representations of Migration in Contemporary Italian Literature: A Methodological Exploration of Migrant Authors’ Novels (2013–2024) (abstract) |
11:30 | Lemme Pretend I Exist Sometimes. Digital Ethnography, Future Screens, and the Cyberpunk Classroom" (abstract) |
11:45 | Kamishibai as a data collection method for social research: when creativity and participatory research interact (abstract) |
12:00 | Drawing Sociologically: Graphic narratives as a tool for inquiry and engagement (abstract) |
12:15 | Transitional mapping: using creative methods to approach gendered embodiments as more-than-human phenomena (abstract) |
12:30 | Is culture under attack? The novel as a tool for understanding digital society (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Workshop 3 - Research Data Management in the social sciences: from theory to practice
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14:15-16:15 Session 2A: 28-Rethinking Multi-sited Ethnography: Contemporary Methodological Challenges and Innovations
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14:15 | Reflexive Ethnography and Democratic Lived Experience in Small Island States (abstract) |
14:30 | Ethnographic research in organizations - commonalities and differences in two empirical studies (abstract) |
14:45 | Multi-sited distribution: Methodological notes on practicing solidarity along the Western Balkan route (abstract) |
15:00 | 360-Degree Ethnography of Hybrid Feminist Activism: Exploring Instagram Influencers' Online and Offline Engagement (abstract) |
15:15 | The discursive construction of security. An ethnography of security and migration discourses in schools in Germany and France (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 2B: 20-Using Visual Methods in Unstructured Data Collection for Hard to Study Populations
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14:15 | Unveiling Representation: A Discourse and Visual Analysis of First Nations in Discover Canada (abstract) |
14:30 | Visualizing Prevention: The Role of Photography in Urban Violence Research and Advocacy (abstract) |
14:45 | Detecting, Typologizing, and Quantifying Visual Cultural Phenomena with Multimodal Language Models (abstract) |
15:00 | Advantages and challenges of repeated life mapping in longitudinal qualitative research (abstract) |
15:15 | Using drawings and paintings to explore sensitive topics among orphaned children (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 2C: 54-Ethnography and Qualitative approach
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14:15 | AI ethnography: mirroring society by sociological prompts (abstract) |
14:30 | Bridging the Gaps: Ethnography, Reflexivity, and Assessment Frameworks in AI System Development (abstract) |
14:45 | Qualitatively Examining Sociodigital Phenomena: Digital Ethnography and Qualitative Content Analysis (abstract) |
15:00 | Exploring usage of a mobile app to facilitate sustainable and healthier diets (abstract) |
15:15 | Navigating the Digital Messiness: Methodological, Ethical, and Reflexive Challenges Faced by Junior Researchers of Extremism (abstract) |
15:30 | Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis as a Methodological Dispositif to Study Sociodigital Intra-actions (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 2D: 71-Migration and decolonialism
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14:15 | Music as a Tool Against Labor Exploitation: The Case of the Orchestra of Agricultural Workers in Italy (abstract) |
14:30 | Examining International Students’ Transitions through a Spatial Lens – a Cosmopolitan Heuristic (abstract) |
14:45 | Reimagining Agrifood Systems in the Amazon Basin: Indigenous Knowledge, Multi-Level Dynamics, and Systemic Change (abstract) |
15:00 | CLIMATE CHANGE PERCEIVED BY ARTISANAL FISHERMEN IN ARARUAMA LAGOON, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL. (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 2E: 26-Place, people, space: old and new challenges of non-native populations
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14:15 | Unveiling Urban Segregation in Southern Europe: Ethnic and Social Divides in Catania (abstract) |
14:30 | Immigrant presence and natives’ perceptions: a neighborhood-level analysis of Naples and Palermo (abstract) |
14:45 | ACCESS TO SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURES FOR IMMIGRATION HOTSPOTS IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA OF BARCELONA: A DIAGNOSTIC TOOL FOR THE INTEGRATION OF THE MIGRANT POPULATION (abstract) |
15:00 | Deep in the Veneto: Researching Migrant Descendants in a Provincial Setting: Challenges and Insights (abstract) |
15:15 | A finer fabric of segregation: local and multiscalar measures of socio-spatial heterogeneity (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 2F: 37-New Perspectives for Intersectionality Research, Policy and Practice 1/2
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14:15 | Developing Family Impact Analysis Tools in Italy: A Methodological Study (abstract) |
14:30 | Policing Queer and Disabled Identities: An Intersectional Approach to Study Police Bias (abstract) |
14:45 | Intersectional Feminist Analysis of Italy’s National Adaptation Plan: Addressing Gendered Climate Vulnerabilities and Regional Disparities (abstract) |
15:00 | From Isolation to Belonging: The Impact of Digital Environments on Refugee Community Building and Human Rights Activism in Europe (abstract) |
15:15 | Implementing Gender-based Analysis Plus (GBA Plus) in Canada's Settlement Sector: An Intersectional Approach to Equity and Integration (abstract) |
15:30 | Exploring Intersectional Approach to Climate Adaptation within Informal Settlements. A Case Study of Accra, Ghana. (abstract) |
15:45 | Property status and wife beating justification in Ghana: an integrated theoretical approach (abstract) |
16:45-18:45 Session 3A: 16-Exploring Interconnections of Social Change: Analytical Approaches to micro, meso, macro, and meta Dimensions
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16:45 | Tracking and tackling the vertical interactions among child poverty, community resilience, conflict, and climate change (abstract) |
17:00 | Towards a Coherent System for Measuring Change and Mutual Influence Across Micro, Meso, Macro, and Meta Dimensions (abstract) |
17:15 | Female ageing in Italy: loneliness, widowhood and volunteering (abstract) |
17:30 | Using evidence about the relationship between environmental risks and poverty among children to design social protection programs: Analyses using satellite data in Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda (abstract) |
17:45 | Education Barriers for Women in Northern Nigeria: A Machine Learning Meta-Analysis of Qualitative Data (abstract) |
18:00 | A Multilayered Analysis of Power Dynamics in Education Governance: A Case Study in Chile´s Urban Periphery (abstract) |
16:45-18:45 Session 3B: 10-Territory and Social Phenomena in the Digital Age: Opportunities and Challenges of User Spatial Content
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16:45 | A multidimensional index to measure urban inequalities at a micro spatial scale (abstract) |
17:00 | Sociology and Territory: Exploring New Data Sources for Social Analysis in Geographic Space (abstract) |
17:15 | Aligning subjective ratings with objective environmental metrics: what do participants refer to when asked about their place of residence? (abstract) |
17:30 | Unlocking Geographic Insights from Social Media: The Role of Geoparsing in Social Research (abstract) |
17:45 | Socio-spatial Inequalities and Attitudes towards Justice and Inequality (abstract) |
18:00 | Mapping Inequality: Integrating Geospatial and User-Generated Data (abstract) |
16:45-18:45 Session 3C: 70-How can We Counteract Methodological Challenges with Surveying Vulnerable/Hard-to-Reach Populations?
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16:45 | Methods and Research Tools for Investigations on Vulnerable Population Targets: The Case of Beneficiaries of Income Support Measures (abstract) |
17:00 | Studying everyday life in demographically rarefied areas. The experience of a mixed-method research study. (abstract) |
17:15 | Identifying disability among children using self-reported surveys (abstract) |
17:30 | Ensuring representativeness in surveys of hard-to-reach populations: The role of proxy respondents in the SWISS100 Study (abstract) |
17:45 | Expanding Survey Inclusion: Integrating Nursing Home Residents into Longitudinal Ageing Research (abstract) |
18:00 | “Survey instrument to identify conceptions of disability: application to Brazilian students” (abstract) |
18:15 | Investigating Romantic and Sexual Attitudes Among University Students in Turkey: A Study on Gender, Religiosity, and Social Norms (abstract) |
16:45-18:45 Session 3D: 46-Digital methods in organized crime research: investigating mafia networks in the digital age
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16:45 | Signalling Strategies and Opportunistic Behavior in Illegal Online Markets (abstract) |
17:00 | PLATFORMIZING CAMORRA ON TIKTOK: FROM GRASSROOTS ECONOMICS TO LIFESTYLE DISPLAYS AND SOCIAL CONSENSUS (abstract) |
17:15 | Mapping Drug Trafficking Networks in 1970s Brazil: Data Extraction, Network Topology, and Targeted Disruption (abstract) |
17:30 | Scarface, myth and celebration of youth and crime in the shadow of TikTok: a netnographic investigation (abstract) |
17:45 | “Pijamose Roma”. A n-ethnographic journey into the open-air drug dens of Tor Bella Monaca. (abstract) |
18:00 | Interpretative Intersections Between Digital Crime and Organized Crime in the Technical Production of Imaginary and Criminally Relevant Materiality (abstract) |
16:45-18:45 Session 3E: 34-Measurement Equivalence of Values and Attitudes Across Groups
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16:45 | Measuring Populism in Europe. Comparison and Validation in the European Social Survey. (abstract) |
17:00 | Beyond borders: discovering regional patterns in the variability of gender attitudes over time in EU countries (abstract) |
17:15 | Graph-based analysis for configural invariance in cross-national surveys (abstract) |
17:30 | From Parties to Citizens: What Belongs to the Cultural Cleavage and Why does it Differ Across Countries? (abstract) |
17:45 | Measuring Misogyny: Invariance Testing of Hostile Sexism across Time and Space (abstract) |
18:00 | Equivalent Reimagined: In Search of Comparative Measurements of Perception of Wealth Inequality in ISSP and CSS (abstract) |
18:15 | Comparing Moral Attitudes Across Europe: Measurement Invariance and Methodological Challenges (abstract) |
16:45-18:45 Session 3F: 37-New Perspectives for Intersectionality Research, Policy and Practice 2/2
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16:45 | Marginalized Communities and Socioeconomic Inclusion:Some aspects across Developed Societies (abstract) |
17:00 | Challenging Dichotomies with Intersectionality (abstract) |
17:15 | Religion and precariousness in the urban peripheries in the north of the State of Rio de Janeiro. (abstract) |
17:30 | Investigating Expertise: Navigating the Complexities of Analyzing Expert Interviews (abstract) |
17:45 | THE INTERSECTION OF GENDER AND CITIZENSHIP IN MIXED MARRIAGE MODELS (abstract) |
18:00 | Weaving Intersectionality into Research: From Tokenism to Solidarity (abstract) |
Tuesday, September 23rd
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08:30-10:30 Session 4A: 59-The Ages of Migration. Methodological Challenges and Innovative Strategies in Research on Migration and Ageing
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08:30 | “Doing family or undoing family?” – Grandparental care relations among Pakistani transnational families in the UK (abstract) |
08:45 | Subjective well-being or Objective measure? Longitudinal analysis of late life internal migrations in Europe (abstract) |
09:00 | IN SEARCH OF THE PLACES AND THE PLACES NOT RECOVERED: THE BIOGRAPHICAL EXPERIENCE IN THE CONFIGURATION OF THE TEACHING IDENTITY OF REFUGEE TEACHERS (abstract) |
09:15 | The resistance of ‘the wretched of the earth’: Studying the mobile commons, migrant digitalities and the autonomy of migration in the times of Trumpism and AI anti-politics (abstract) |
08:30-10:30 Session 4B: 40-TELLING OUR STORIES: Critical reflection on Autoethnography and other auto-research engaging with the researchers' selves
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08:30 | PUSHING THE ENVELOPE TOO FAR? SOME CRITICAL THOUGHTS ON AUTOETHNOGRAPHY (abstract) |
08:45 | Auto-ethnographing the work of “men in the shadows”: social distances and research practices among video protection operators (abstract) |
09:00 | An Embodied/Performative ‘I’: Shaping my illness trajectory as a patient and an STS researcher (abstract) |
09:15 | Loving Alongside Dementia : How Lived Experience Shapes my Research (abstract) |
09:30 | Un/Welcoming. Gender and power relations in the urban public space (abstract) |
09:45 | (De) Constructing oneself through/in the field. (abstract) |
10:00 | Urban Gazes, Collective Gazes: Metamorphosis of the Researcher-Activist and the Construction of “We” in Urban Spaces (abstract) |
08:30-10:30 Session 4C: 62-Methodological challenges for social sciences: between epistemological breaks and sharing of frameworks from the perspective of inter-multi-transdisciplinarity
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08:30 | On the importance of greenery for urban environment. Theoretical approach and methodological remarks from original studies of city centers (abstract) |
08:45 | Visual Analysis as methodological perspective: Innovative research on the condition of youth in the post-pandemic period (abstract) |
09:00 | Predict – Design – Observe: How climate extreme predictions can inform the design of a sociological study (abstract) |
09:15 | A Multidisciplinary Method for Interdisciplinarity in Secondary Schools: the InterEd project (abstract) |
09:30 | Socio-emotional competences of university students in Italy: the interaction between individual and relational aspects in their development (abstract) |
09:45 | STUDYING REPRESENTATION OF VALUES IN TELEVISION: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK (abstract) |
10:00 | Methodological challenges of research on jihadist radicalization (abstract) |
08:30-10:30 Session 4D: 48-Researching sport and physical activity. Methodological challenges between tradition and innovation
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08:30 | Innovating Sports Research: Integrating Participatory, Creative, and Digital Methodologies in the Study of Inclusive Sports (abstract) |
08:45 | Hashtag activism in sports on X. Methodological implications for content analysis (abstract) |
09:00 | The representation strategies of Italian Paralympic athletes: Methodological implications on the use of digital data (abstract) |
09:15 | The role of community in individual well-being self-assessment - A case study of the use of wearable technologies (abstract) |
09:30 | The “Run Rome The Marathon” as a total social fact. The Sapienza inquiry in a mixed-methods perspective (abstract) |
09:45 | Class Differences in Walking Styles: Results from an Interdisciplinary Experiment Between Sociology and Biomechanics (abstract) |
10:00 | The study of values and motivations in ethnic dances between traditional and innovative research tools. (abstract) |
08:30-10:30 Session 4E: 38-Social Network Analysis for doing evaluation. Methodological challenges and empirical experiences.
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08:30 | Using Social Network Analysis to Evaluate Partnership Networks in School Segregation Prevention Program. Methodological Issues (abstract) |
08:45 | Mapping Third-Sector Networks for Environmental Risk Management: A Social Network Analysis in Naples’ IX Municipality (abstract) |
09:00 | Mapping Relational Transformations: Social Network Analysis as an Evaluation Tool for Community-Based Interventions (abstract) |
09:15 | Social welfare procedures as structures of social action: applications of network analysis from the perspective of realistic evaluation (abstract) |
09:30 | Evaluating network impacts of the educating communities of the ‘Cambio rotta’ programme to contrast educational poverty. (abstract) |
09:45 | The analysis of relational networks to support the ex post evaluation of Local Development programmes: the application of Social Network Analysis for the study of the social infrastructure within the Castelbuono territory (abstract) |
10:00 | The reactions of social-health networks to catastrophic events. The case of the 2016 earthquake in the Marche region (abstract) |
08:30-10:30 Session 4F: 29-Methodological frontiers in the study of mobility: from digital and technological devices to mobile methods from digital and technological devices to mobile methods
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08:30 | Measuring Distance to University in Germany: How Accurate is the Straight-Line Approach? (abstract) |
08:45 | Chronotopic Cartographies and Storytelling in Older Adults Mobility Research (abstract) |
09:00 | From spatial to personal factors: a regional case study of Car Dependence in Lombardy (abstract) |
09:15 | Integrating Innovative Data Sources in Urban Mobility Studies: Methodological Reflections from the Bicocca Mobility ID Card (abstract) |
09:30 | Exploring bus drivers’ working conditions with mobile methods: an intersectional and spatiotemporal approach (abstract) |
09:45 | Urban peripheries in the accessibility to opportunities and services: a propose of classification by using public transport data (abstract) |
10:00 | Ride-Alongs: A Mobile Method for Exploring Everyday Mobility Practices (abstract) |
08:30-10:30 Session 4G: 5-Algorithm Awareness and Literacy Research: Methodological Innovations, Challenges, and Future Perspectives
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08:30 | Comparing Self-Reported and Behavioral Measures of Algorithmic Literacy (abstract) |
08:45 | Critical pedagogy and algorithmic literacy. Forms of counter-hegemonic praxis in the platform society (abstract) |
09:00 | Algorithmic literacy and cultural consumption: the Italian case. Some empirical findings from the ALGOFEED Project (abstract) |
09:15 | Meta-Identity, Algorithms, and Parameters: The Opaque Construction of Social Identities by Big Techs (abstract) |
09:30 | Assessing and Enhancing Journalists’ Algorithmic Literacy (abstract) |
09:45 | Exploring Algorithm Awareness and Digital Inequality Through a Role-Playing Card Game (abstract) |
10:00 | Algorithmic Awareness and the Future of Cultural Engagement: A Multidimensional Study in Higher Arts Education (abstract) |
08:30-10:30 Session 4H: 31-Innovative network analysis applications in social sciences 1/2
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08:30 | COMPLEMENTING AND ENRICHING COMPOSITE INDICATORS BY BAYESIAN NETWORKS (abstract) |
08:45 | Tracing Team Dynamics in Wikipedia: a sociodigital perspective (abstract) |
09:00 | A Network-Grounded Approach: Reconstructing the Complete Network of Healthy Lifestyles in an Italian Community (abstract) |
09:15 | Using network analysis to investigate youth non-response in a household panel (abstract) |
09:30 | Exploring the impact of social relationships on soft skills: insights from a high school survey in Italy (abstract) |
08:30-10:30 Session 4I: 1-Online communities as a research object 1/2
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08:30 | Bodies and Words on Fire. A Collaborative Feminist Duo-Ethnography on TikTok and Instagram Communities about Pelvic and Vulvar Pain.. (abstract) |
08:45 | Exploring Live Shopping on TikTok: Methodological Challenges and New Horizons for Digital Ethnography (abstract) |
09:00 | Digital Ethnography and Migration: Methodological and Ethical Challenges (abstract) |
09:15 | Analysis of Digital Environments on ART: Sociological Opportunities and Challenges (abstract) |
09:30 | Non-maleficence without institutional gatekeeping? How ethical issues are addressed in empirical Digital Activism Research (abstract) |
09:45 | Political polarization in the world of digitalization (abstract) |
10:00 | Online Communities and Masculinity: A Study of the Italian Manosphere (abstract) |
11:00-13:00 Session 5A: 53-Beyond Calculation: AI Devices as Co-Constructors of Stories and Values
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11:00 | Eco-Smart Enclaves and Artificial Intelligence: Urban Innovation or a New Frontier of Segregation? (abstract) |
11:15 | Has Artificial Intelligence Been Telling all the Stories? How Weak Institutional Policies Enable the Erosion of Academic Values in Thesis Writing in Bayelsa State, Nigeria (abstract) |
11:30 | The evolution of platforms as socio-material assemblages (abstract) |
11:45 | Am I The AI? On the diffusion of AI-generated posts in the Am I The AssHole subreddit (abstract) |
12:00 | Algorithmic Agents in Academia: How AI Redefines Learning Practices and Ethical Boundaries (abstract) |
12:15 | Enhancing Sociological Imagination: Human-AI Collaborative Approaches in Digital Narrative Analysis (abstract) |
11:00-13:00 Session 5B: 44-Sustainability and High-dimensional Data Analysis
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11:00 | The evaluation of the impact of Fintech on Sustainable Development via Penalized Generalized Estimating Equations (abstract) |
11:15 | High-Dimensional Analysis of Inequality Indicators: A Study Across European Country (abstract) |
11:30 | From research to care: measuring the impact of AHSC on patient experience (abstract) |
11:45 | Reimaging Climate Politics: TikTok’s Impact on the Digital Public Sphere (abstract) |
12:00 | Research on sustainable community-based services and practices with text-based data analysis (abstract) |
12:15 | Hierarchical composite indicators for measuring sustainability in waste management: the case of Italian municipalities (abstract) |
11:00-13:00 Session 5C: 13-Methodological Challenges and Approaches for Sociodigital Research 1/3
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11:00 | Social Research on Digital Workplace: A Sociological Approach to the Black Box Test (abstract) |
11:15 | Modelling critical AI literacies from a post-humanist perspective: a cognitive assemblage for Human-Technology-World relations (abstract) |
11:30 | In search of a sociodigital futures methodology for understanding predictive systems (abstract) |
11:45 | Digital Twin and future settings for citizens participation to urban governance. (abstract) |
12:00 | Algorithmically Mediated Semiotic-Discourse Analysis (AM-SDA): A Multi-Scalar LLM-Assisted Methodological Framework for Algorithmic and AI-Governed Cultural Research (abstract) |
12:15 | Do digital news represent useful data for social research? Insights from the TIPS project (abstract) |
11:00-13:00 Session 5D: 35-Identification and Analysis of Online Racism and Xenophobia against (Im)migrants
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11:00 | The role of media discourses in shaping the perception of irregular migrants and political responses to migration (abstract) |
11:15 | Auto-narratives and digital self-representation from an anthropological perspective in countering online hate speech (abstract) |
11:30 | Beyond Algorithms: A Linguistic Approach to Online Hate Speech Detection (abstract) |
11:45 | Manosphere, toxic technoculture, gender violence explained through a Bayesian network (abstract) |
12:00 | “Never Again” in the Digital Age: Mapping Online Narratives on Jews and Hate Speech through Network Analysis (abstract) |
12:15 | Media representations of migration in digital spaces: an analysis of social media discourse in Italy (abstract) |
11:00-13:00 Session 5E: 57-Innovative Research Methods and Methodologies in Educational Management
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11:00 | A Hybrid Methodological Approach to Assessing Sustainability and Social Responsibility in Public Higher Education Institutions (abstract) |
11:15 | New research methodology trends in educational management (abstract) |
11:30 | Revisiting Contemporary Sociology in Morocco: Core Themes, Approaches, and Methods (abstract) |
11:45 | The main factors in student satisfaction with a campus environment: A mixed approach vs. a quantitative approach. (abstract) |
12:00 | Identification of Metacognitive Errors – MEQue Methodology (abstract) |
12:15 | Negotiating Systemic Culture-specific Variations in Child-related Cross-border Social Work between the UK and Italy (abstract) |
11:00-13:00 Session 5F: 33-Leave us kids alone… or don’t? Methodological challenges and ethical concerns when doing research with children 1/2
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11:00 | Children’s Perspectives on Participation: Methodological Reflections on Symbolic Interviews and Photo Walks (abstract) |
11:15 | The play-along method: A child-centered participatory approach to analyze video game culture (abstract) |
11:30 | The Use of Creative Methods for Collecting Biographical Narratives with Children Moving Alone: An Example of Emancipatory Research (abstract) |
11:45 | The Kids Gonna Be Alright: Stepping Back as an Adult in Youth-Led Mixed Methods Research (abstract) |
12:00 | How do children construct their culture in a context of violence in Chihuahua, Mexico? An ethnographic research with children (abstract) |
11:00-13:00 Session 5G: 69-Power and control dynamics in help relationships: methodological perspectives 1/2
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11:00 | SOCIAL SERVICES IN CAIVANO: UNDER COMMISSION AND A DECREE-LAW (abstract) |
11:15 | Social work training and anti-oppressive practices' learning. Narratives and representations of discretion in social services (abstract) |
11:30 | ‘Teaching and learning to be an anti-oppressive social worker’. Group work as a participatory and emancipatory tool in Social work education (abstract) |
11:45 | Institutional traps in exiting domestic violence: data from co-research (abstract) |
12:00 | Care and control in social work: a co-constructed study using the critical reflection method (abstract) |
11:00-13:00 Session 5H: 36-Mixed Methods at the Digital Turn: How Digital is Reshaping Mixed Methods Research 1/2
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11:00 | Mixed-Methodology Reviewing of Digital Public Discourse: A Reflexive Approach to Sino-German Narratives on BRICS (abstract) |
11:15 | Exploring the Platformisation of the Informal Economy on TikTok through a Mixed Method Design (abstract) |
11:30 | Old and New Research Designs. The Contribution of Artificial Intelligence in Mixed Methods: A Case Study (abstract) |
11:45 | Digital Economy Transformation and Social Mobility of Ho Chi Minh City Workers (abstract) |
12:00 | Mixed methodology research in digital environments: remote focused interviews and network analysis to reconstruct the socio-linguistic vitality of Italian emigrants in California (abstract) |
12:15 | Embodied Interaction and Habituation in Virtual Reality: A Digital Anthropological Inquiry (abstract) |
11:00-13:00 Session 5I: 42-Logic and Methodology in Sociology of Law and Deviance 1/2
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11:00 | Renato Treves and the Sociology of Law between theory and practice (abstract) |
11:15 | Taking communities seriously. Community based participatory research in affected communities. (abstract) |
11:30 | Reframing Asylum: The Legal Recognition of Climate Migration in Italy’s Judicial System (abstract) |
11:45 | Re-centering Marginalized Voices: Decolonial Praxis in Law and Deviance (abstract) |
12:00 | Rethinking Popular Legal Culture: Theoretical Challenges, Research Strategies, and Methodological Approaches (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 6A: 65-Using Correspondence-Based Audit Methods to Uncover Discrimination
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14:15 | The Unrealized Potential of Correspondence Studies: Applicant-Side Inequalities in Effort, Opportunities, and Certainty (abstract) |
14:30 | DISABILITY-BASED EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION: EVIDENCE FROM A SERIES OF FIELD EXPERIMENTS (abstract) |
14:45 | Gender Differences in Wage Assignment: the Role of Recruiters in a Vignette Experiment (abstract) |
15:00 | Discrimination in early childhood: Evidence from a harmonised field experiment in access to childcare across nine European countries (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 6B: 22-Data-driven approach in healthcare system
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14:15 | The impact of frailty on healthcare access among older adults (abstract) |
14:30 | Addressing informative missingness of the outcome in performance monitoring: a Heckman-like approach for binary data (abstract) |
14:45 | A Framework to Assess the Multi-Dimensional Performance of Italian Academic Health Science Centers (abstract) |
15:00 | Emergency Department Triage Validation: Balancing Bias with Propensity Score Matching (abstract) |
15:15 | Data collection on patient behavior through the Patient Journey (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 6C: 12-Dealing with (intense) emotions and feelings during qualitative fieldwork: How ready can we be? 1/3
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14:15 | How to deal with emotions when your research topic becomes "explosive" (abstract) |
14:30 | Emotional Investment and Researcher Wellbeing in Qualitative Work (abstract) |
14:45 | Navigating Emotional Labor in Qualitative Research: The Vulnerable Observer in Emotionally Charged Fieldwork (abstract) |
15:00 | Between Discomfort and Understanding: The Emotional Toll of Qualitative Research on the Far Right (abstract) |
15:15 | Balancing Normalization and Expression: The Role of Methodological Reflexivity in Exploring Neonatal Intensive Care Emotional Challenges (abstract) |
15:30 | Emotional Work in Breast Cancer Research: Patients’ Strategies and Researcher’s Challenges (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 6D: 64-New Perspectives on Gender and Politics: Current Developments and Methodological Challenges 1/3
14:15 | "Mapping Fertility Intentions Through Gender Regimes: An Innovative Methodological Approach to Gender Inequality and Political Behavior (abstract) |
14:30 | Measuring Gender Sensitivity in Parliaments: A Proposed Index (abstract) |
14:45 | Well-being and gender budgeting: the case of public infrastructure A background, a methodological approach and a budgetary well-being index from a feminist approach (abstract) |
15:00 | Unveiling the Usual Suspects: Gender and Political Affiliation in Brazil's Federal Bureaucracy (abstract) |
15:15 | Towards the Construction of an Index of Women's Participation in Peacebuilding (abstract) |
15:30 | Analyzing the Heterogeneity of Gender Attitudes Drivers: findings from the UNTWIST Project. (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 6E: 15-Measuring and Comparing Social and Political Values and Attitudes in Turbulent Times 1/3
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14:15 | Which future for Western democracies? An Age-Period-Cohort analysis on voting for populist parties (abstract) |
14:30 | Measuring and Comparing Citizens’ and Institutions’ Solidarity: Indicators of Social Love for a cross-cultural comparability (abstract) |
14:45 | THE RIPPLE EFFECT OF CLIMATE CHANGE AWARENESS (abstract) |
15:00 | In a comparative perspective, web surveys often demonstrate poorer demographic coverage and yield more liberal estimates of public opinion than F2F surveys (abstract) |
15:15 | Measuring religiosity in the European Social Survey: Cross-temporal and cross-country measurement invariance (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 6F: 23-Small and big secrets – how to deal with sensitive topics in qualitative and quantitative research 1/2
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14:15 | What is a good way to ask about racist experiences? Exploring the difference between direct and indirect measures (abstract) |
14:30 | Focus groups to analyse social representations about sexual harassment in higher education institutions (abstract) |
14:45 | Loneliness amongst youth at the University of Szeged (abstract) |
15:00 | Ethical and Methodological Challenges in Studying Master's Student Attrition in Teacher Training Programs (abstract) |
15:15 | Family of Origin and Future Relationships: Representations and Narratives of Italian Young Adults (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 6G: 50-The Utilization of AI-Powered Tools in Social Research: Opportunities, Implications and Prospects 1/2
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14:15 | Automated Identification of Political Dimensions in Multilingual Texts (abstract) |
14:30 | Microsimulation Interpretation for Binary, Multinomial, Ordered and Continuation Logit Models: A Test Case for AI (abstract) |
14:45 | Exploring WhatsApp's Role as Social Media Platform: A Case Study on AI-Assisted Content Analysis on Facebook posts (abstract) |
15:00 | AI-in-use. An exploratory mixed-method study on human-AI collaboration among PhD fellow researchers in social sciences (abstract) |
15:15 | Methodological Innovation and Limitations of Artificial Intelligence in Social Research: A Critical Approach (abstract) |
15:30 | Navigating Adversarial Vulnerabilities: Critical Challenges for AI Integration in Social Research (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 6H: 8-Embracing Open Science: Methodological and Epistemological Challenges in Research Infrastructures for the Social Sciences 1/2
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14:15 | Ethics in open science: principles, challenges, and practical applications in FOSSR (abstract) |
14:30 | Interoperable data for skills and professional participation (abstract) |
14:45 | Designing the Italian Online Probability Panel: innovations and challenges to foster open science (abstract) |
15:00 | Beyond Monkey Jobs: Leveraging a ‘Data as Code’ Approach for Efficient and FAIR Research Data Management (abstract) |
15:15 | Anonymization and privacy management in social science data archives: the Slovenian case (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 6I: 4-Disinformation Studies: Methodological Challenges and New Research Frontiers 1/2
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14:15 | Segmentation-Based Science Communication for Misinformation Resilience (abstract) |
14:30 | Free Speech vs. Content Moderation: A Digital Ethnography of User Reactions to Community Notes on Social Networks (abstract) |
14:45 | The Impact of Viral News on the 2024 Presidential Elections in Venezuela: Setting the agenda through Social Media? (abstract) |
15:00 | Social media as a medium for organizing crimes against national security in the context of a full-scale Russian invasion in Ukraine (abstract) |
15:15 | Digital Populism and Affective Engineering: Cambridge Analytica's Failed Foray in Brazil (abstract) |
15:30 | Translation, Participation, and Reverse Influence: Studying Disinformation as Communicative Practice (abstract) |
Wednesday, September 24th
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08:30-10:30 Session 8A: 51-Territorial Crossing Practices and Urban Dérive: Sensory Approaches to Reading and Interpreting Social Processes
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08:30 | Enduro drifting with Guy on the back seat (abstract) |
08:45 | Visions of Petrotoxicity. Writing about Petro-camouflage in Los Angeles streets (abstract) |
09:00 | Flânerie, Gender, and Intersectionality in Urban Traversal Practices (abstract) |
09:15 | AN ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EVANGELICALS AND THE SAMBA COMMUNITY IN THE TERRITORY OF MORRO DA MANGUEIRA (abstract) |
09:30 | Territorial Perceptions and Everyday Navigations: Sensory and Social Mapping of the River Someș in Cluj-Napoca (abstract) |
09:45 | What does an overtouristified city sound like? Soundpostcards from Venice to Ralph Rumney (abstract) |
10:00 | New digital tools and metropolitan myopia: rethinking urban research and methods beyond the large cities. (abstract) |
08:30-10:30 Session 8B: 55-Doing Decolonial Research in Global South Cities
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08:30 | Decolonial Methods in Practice: Challenges, Contradictions, and the Case for Participatory Qualitative Analysis (abstract) |
08:45 | Contemporary Photocollectives as Decolonial Agents in the Networked Society (abstract) |
09:00 | Decolonizing urban research through digital mediatization: TikTok as a space of agency for Global South actors (abstract) |
09:15 | Griotisme as a method, Decolonial storytelling and dialogue for rethinking urban research in West Africa (abstract) |
09:30 | Decolonial urban research in housing struggles: reflections on participatory action research in collaborative design at the Cissie Gool House occupation, Cape Town (abstract) |
08:30-10:30 Session 8C: 60-Emotions: A New Challenge for the Epistemology of Social Science
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08:30 | Unveiling Empathy in Social Scientific Research: Emotional Reciprocity Beyond the Interview Setting (abstract) |
08:45 | Bringing emotions from backstage to the Fore. Participatory Action Research with and on Young People (abstract) |
09:00 | Anxiety as a social phenomenon: a study of emotions in the uncertain society (abstract) |
09:15 | To re-cognize oneself in human suffering. Dilthey for a comprehensive method in Sociology (abstract) |
09:30 | Vulnerability and Knowledge: Why Qualitative Research Must Hurt (abstract) |
09:45 | Blending In, Standing Out: The Strategic Use of Mimicry in LGBTQ+ and Anti-Gender Fieldworks (abstract) |
10:00 | Emotion and the Epistemological Redefinition of Writing in the Social Sciences When Describing Mass Violence (abstract) |
10:15 | Affective Exchanges in the Field: Co-constructing Situated Knowledges (abstract) |
08:30-10:30 Session 8D: 31-Innovative network analysis applications in social sciences 2/2
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08:30 | Sna e multilevel network models for analysis of complex phenomena. A study on urban participation networks. (abstract) |
08:45 | Assessing Peer Effects Through a Network Lens: Survey Design and Privacy Considerations (abstract) |
09:00 | Mapping Epistemic Networks: A Diagnostic Model of Knowledge Dynamics, Polarization, and Authority Structures (abstract) |
09:15 | Corruption, Composite Indicators and Network Analysis (abstract) |
08:30-10:30 Session 8E: 6-Queer methods. Untangling tensions between queer and social science methodologies 1/2
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08:30 | The Researcher’s Toolbox in Emancipatory Research: Making Knowledge Construction More Accessible Through the Sharing of Techniques. A Case Study on Transgender Inmates in Naples. (abstract) |
08:45 | Feminist combative self-consciousness as a queer method to counter discrimination: re-signification of gender categories and power relations. Practical applications in the Italian “PDR-125” framework. (abstract) |
09:00 | Autoethnographic Methodology in the Approach to Paul B. Preciado’s Trans Philosophy (abstract) |
09:15 | Beyond categories: identities in transit and new onlife perspectives in social research (abstract) |
09:30 | Wittgenstein’s Family Resemblance as a Conceptual Tool for Queer Research (abstract) |
09:45 | Queerly Consensual: Embracing Fluidity and Relationality in Research Consent Practices (abstract) |
08:30-10:30 Session 8F: 12-Dealing with (intense) emotions and feelings during qualitative fieldwork: How ready can we be? 2/3
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08:30 | Sensing a nursing home. Reflections on emotions in a muti-sited ethnographic study of long-term care facilities (abstract) |
08:45 | Integrating psychological well-being in social research: lessons for both participants and researchers from a decolonial and feminist approach (abstract) |
09:00 | Collective Effervescence Reversed: Theory as a Lens on Fear and Fear as a Theoretical Insight (abstract) |
09:15 | Emotional reflectivity throughout the research process (abstract) |
09:30 | Emotional Impacts in Qualitative Research with Vulnerable Groups: Managing Emotions and Ethical Dilemmas (abstract) |
09:45 | Love Under the Radar (abstract) |
08:30-10:30 Session 8G: 64-New Perspectives on Gender and Politics: Current Developments and Methodological Challenges 2/3
08:30 | Doing Femmix: mixed methods for unpacking gendered visual data in political social media contents (abstract) |
08:45 | Cross-cultural differences in undertanding methods and ethics for focus groups. An applied research gender and RWPP. (abstract) |
09:00 | How do political parties frame gender-related issues? A content analysis of Spanish party manifestos (2004-2019) (abstract) |
09:15 | Intersectional Collective Gender Identity: Measuring an Elusive Concept (abstract) |
09:30 | Investigating Political Scandals: Combining Conjoint Analysis and Audio-Based Experiments (abstract) |
08:30-10:30 Session 8H: 15-Measuring and Comparing Social and Political Values and Attitudes in Turbulent Times 2/3
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08:30 | What drives consistent opposition to (and support for) climate policies? The case of Belgium (abstract) |
08:45 | Men’s Declining Existential Security and the Value Gender Gap: Investigating Gender and Generational Differences across 24 European Countries (abstract) |
09:00 | Is there a Southern European variant of secular transition model? Evidence from a harmonized dataset about religious change in Europe (1973-2023) (abstract) |
09:15 | What types of survey questions are prone to interviewer effects? Evidence based on 31,000 ICCs from 28 countries. (abstract) |
09:30 | Combining ESS, EVS, and V-Dem to Examine Migrant Political Incorporation in European Democracies (abstract) |
08:30-10:30 Session 8I: 25-Text as Data: The Encounter Between Sociology and Computer Science 2/2
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08:30 | Tracing the Semantic Shift of 'Refugee' in Polish Public Television's evening news program Wiadomości (2013–2023) Using NLP Tools (abstract) |
08:45 | Mixed Methods: The Crucial Role of Human Evaluations in Validating LLM Outputs and Computational Analyses (abstract) |
09:00 | Self-presentation and personal features: a systematic analysis of hiring outcomes in an online labor market (abstract) |
09:15 | Topic Modeling for Argumentation Analysis: Application to Polish Parliamentary Debates on Abortion (1989–2024) (abstract) |
09:30 | Essays Written by Humans vs. AI: Investigating Distinctive Features Through Keyness Analysis (abstract) |
09:45 | Is automation the solution?: A critical consideration of the use of Machine Learning’s tools in literature reviews (abstract) |
11:00-13:00 Session 9A: 69-Power and control dynamics in help relationships: methodological perspectives 2/2
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11:00 | Between appropriation and resistance: the digitalisation of social work in the implementation of the Italian minimum income scheme (abstract) |
11:15 | The tensions between care and control in social work: reflections on complexities at the initial access level and in the work with migrants. (abstract) |
11:30 | Power dynamics are under control, a preliminary framework. (abstract) |
11:45 | The social secretariat between accessibility and proximity (abstract) |
12:00 | Learning from vulnerable people involved in ethnographic research: methodological limitations and ethical dilemmas. (abstract) |
11:00-13:00 Session 9B: 33-Leave us kids alone… or don’t? Methodological challenges and ethical concerns when doing research with children 2/2
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11:00 | Home-Based Inequalities in Primary School: Rethinking Current Measures of Household SES (abstract) |
11:15 | Youth participation in research - insights from the SOBRU Study (abstract) |
11:30 | Research With Trans* And Gender-Creative Children: Ethical Reflections and Methodological Approaches. (abstract) |
11:45 | Exploring Children Attitudes towards Mathematics in Primary School: methodological concerns and technical choices (abstract) |
12:00 | "The ideal student" versus "The popular student": children's visual voices on the production of inequalities within the classroom (abstract) |
11:00-13:00 Session 9C: 23-Small and big secrets – how to deal with sensitive topics in qualitative and quantitative research 2/2
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11:00 | «We need to preserve secrecy»: the challenges of studying a closed group (abstract) |
11:15 | Trust maps as a visual technique to facilitate qualitative interview conversation on a difficult to grasp phenomenon (abstract) |
11:30 | Studying Antimafia Public Prosecutors’s expertise through élite interview. (abstract) |
11:45 | Talking about Political Screening in China: Navigating Sensitivity and Ethical Challenges in Qualitative Research (abstract) |
12:00 | Doing fieldwork despite diffidence: industrial regions as sensitive places (abstract) |
11:00-13:00 Session 9D: 50-The Utilization of AI-Powered Tools in Social Research: Opportunities, Implications and Prospects 2/2
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11:00 | Assessing the Effectiveness of LLMs in the Evaluation of Draft Survey Questions Using Rule-Based QDET Frameworks (abstract) |
11:15 | When is Gen-AI welcome in a thematic analysis? Reflections on appropriate use of CAQDAS-integrated Gen-AI tools (abstract) |
11:30 | Rethinking Social Research: How AI and Big Data Are Reshaping Social Service Practices (abstract) |
11:45 | Machine-assisted analytics augmenting communication management (abstract) |
12:00 | The Integration of Artificial Intelligence as an Auxiliary Tool in Qualitative Research: A Protocol for Social Data Analysis (abstract) |
11:00-13:00 Session 9E: 4-Disinformation Studies: Methodological Challenges and New Research Frontiers 2/2
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11:00 | Vaccine Discourses on Telegram: Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Identify Platformized Anti-Vaccine Narratives in Brazil (abstract) |
11:15 | Health literacy and disinformation in the digital age (abstract) |
11:30 | A study of the crowdsourced factchecking of disinformation frames on X (abstract) |
11:45 | Patterns and Practices of Disinformation: Targeting the LGBTQIA+ Community in the Digital Context (abstract) |
12:00 | Methodological Reflections on Observing the (Co-)Construction of (Dis)information Literacy Through Interactions Between Adolescents and Journalists (abstract) |
12:15 | Measuring the Extent of Media Capture Through Social Network Analysis (abstract) |
11:00-13:00 Session 9F: 13-Methodological Challenges and Approaches for Sociodigital Research 2/3
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11:00 | Learned Futures: Applying Futures Methods to Generative AI Models (abstract) |
11:15 | Digital encounters in early childhood: seeing beyond the human (abstract) |
11:30 | Beyond outcomes: Innovative and community-based strategies for studying digital inclusivity (abstract) |
11:45 | Algorithmic Memories and User Awareness: A Pluralistic Approach (abstract) |
12:00 | Addressing the limits of digital methods for sociological research: follow the medium vs following the user (abstract) |
11:00-13:00 Session 9G: 3-Research on experts, research with experts. Methodological implications and solutions 1/2
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11:00 | Expertise in co-design: The case of an e-learning AI-powered chatbot for dementia training (abstract) |
11:15 | Navigating Expertise in the NICU: The Role of Experts in Supporting Preterm Families (abstract) |
11:30 | Balancing Expertise in Water Governance: Democratic Challenges and Innovative Strategies (abstract) |
11:45 | The “Custodians of Taste” (abstract) |
12:00 | The Role of Experts in Developing a New Tool to Monitor and Evaluate the Paths of "Spazi Neutri": Challenges and Opportunities for Social Work Research and Practice (abstract) |
12:15 | Scientific expertise in medicine. The self-perception of the expert in times of crisis (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 10A: 9-Data visualization in the age of artificial intelligence: digital storytelling, big data and open data
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14:15 | Implications of AI and methodological innovation in data visualization and social research (abstract) |
14:30 | Accessible data for an informed society: Communication strategies for a data-driven future (abstract) |
14:45 | Data visualisation in sociological research related to aesthetic labour (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 10B: 43-Machine Learning and Social Research: Methodological Challenges and Innovative Applications 1/2
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14:15 | Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare Narratives: A Social Media Analysis of Hospital Representations Across Europe (abstract) |
14:30 | Early Identification of At-Risk Students: Integrating AI with Quantitative and Qualitative Data (abstract) |
14:45 | Artificial Intelligence and Discrimination: A vignette ex-periment of labour market discrimination in Large Lan-guage Models (abstract) |
15:00 | Harnessing Machine Learning to Address High Missing Data in Cross-National Studies: From Bias to Precision in Public Service Research (abstract) |
15:15 | Mapping Life Trajectories: A Machine Learning Approach to Clustering Multidimensional Life Courses (abstract) |
15:30 | Machine Learning-Based Depression Prediction: A Data-Driven Approach (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 10C: 25-Text as Data: The Encounter Between Sociology and Computer Science 1/2
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14:15 | Blending Human and AI Perspectives: Comparing and integrating results from LLM and human analyst on manifest and latent structures in focus group data (abstract) |
14:30 | Sentiment Analysis with NVIVO in the Study of Occupational Welfare Perceptions: An Innovative Methodological Approach (abstract) |
14:45 | Beyond Text: Challenges and Solutions in Content Analysis of Digital Platforms (abstract) |
15:00 | Critical use of qualitative text analysis using AI (abstract) |
15:15 | Subjective well-being and migration narratives in the context of Italian elections. An analysis with online newspaper data. (abstract) |
15:30 | Mapping Digital Narratives and Sociotechnical Imaginaries: A BERT-Based Computational Model (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 10D: 6-Queer methods. Untangling tensions between queer and social science methodologies 2/2
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14:15 | Negotiating Resistance: Queer Methodologies at the Intersection between Knowledge Production and Occupational and Minority Stress (abstract) |
14:30 | Queering Methodologies in Migration Research: Oral History and the Renegotiation of the LGBTQI+ Refugee Category (abstract) |
14:45 | Measuring Gender Beyond the Binary: Queer Critique and Quantitative Contradictions in Cross-National Surveys (abstract) |
15:00 | Neurodivergence, Urban Space, and the Politics of Knowledge Production: A Neuro/Queer Perspective (abstract) |
15:15 | Queer(ing) Methods, Masculinity, and Mental Health: A Posthuman Approach to Digital Ethnography (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 10E: 64-New Perspectives on Gender and Politics: Current Developments and Methodological Challenges 3/3
14:15 | Tensions and ambivalences in the construction of gender identities: a qualitative analysis of young university women in contemporary socioeconomic contexts (abstract) |
14:30 | When anti-immigration and climate denialism meet gender: Ideological packages in Spanish news (2014–2024). (abstract) |
14:45 | Exploring Gender (In)equality in Legislative Representation in Ghana (abstract) |
15:00 | Gendered Political Participation Among Youth: The Role of Family Resources in Shaping Formal, Informal, and Online Engagement (abstract) |
15:15 | Daring to dissent: Negative emotions toward the 8M protests and the rise of gender backlash in Spain (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 10F: 15-Measuring and Comparing Social and Political Values and Attitudes in Turbulent Times 3/3
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14:15 | Rural-Urban Divide: Measuring Cultural Differences between Rural and Urban areas (abstract) |
14:30 | Beyond left and right: Values and political orientation as predictors of individuals’ migration policy preferences (abstract) |
14:45 | Climate Change Beliefs in Europe: A Diachronic Analysis of Attitudes Before and After the EU Green Deal (abstract) |
15:00 | The cross-sectional and longitudinal comparability between ESS, EVS, and WVS from the past to the future (abstract) |
15:15 | Religion, modernization, and solidarity in European societies: a multilevel relationship (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 10G: 3-Research on experts, research with experts. Methodological implications and solutions 2/2
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14:15 | The role of experts in the measurement of democracy (abstract) |
14:30 | Fictional crisis stories: a narrative based methodology to study the expertise. (abstract) |
14:45 | Social acceptability of technologies: working for experts, working with experts (abstract) |
15:00 | The Future of AI: Insights from a Delphi Study of Expert Opinions (abstract) |
15:15 | constructing 'experts' in emerging social fields (abstract) |
15:30 | Expertise without experience: the case of public policies to offset gambling in Italy (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 10H: 61-Exploring Arts-Based Methods to Challenge Social Injustice and Inequalities 2/2
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14:15 | Negotiating Urban Space Through Alternative Narratives: Insights from an Open Drug Scene in Venice (abstract) |
14:30 | Co-creation of digital stories to challenge assumptions about relationship possibilities between people living with dementia in long-term care and adolescents (abstract) |
14:45 | Creativity and (social) security. Using art-based to contain and prevent Online IDentity Theft (abstract) |
15:00 | A Grammar of Pain. Comics-Based Research in the Collective Understanding of Pain (abstract) |
15:15 | Terrestrial diaries: a tool for unveiling Ultima Generazione’s imaginaries on climate injustice (abstract) |
15:30 | Challenging Teachers' Stereotypes Through Arts-Based Methods: An Exploratory Study at Roma Tre University (abstract) |
15:45 | Embracing Research Brave Space through Zine-Making: Transformative Methodology in the Study of Digital Sexual Intimacies and Queer Subjectivities (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 10I: 68-Participation, Practice and Solidarity: Participatory Research in the Social Sciences 1/2
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14:15 | A Case for Disrupting Coloniality in U.S. Academia: Towards Collaborative Knowledge Production and Decolonial Feminist Epistemologies (abstract) |
14:30 | Integration Participatory Methods into Research on Learning Outcomes: Strategies, Opportunities and Criticalities (abstract) |
14:45 | STORYLINK: Connecting Cultures Through Creative and Biographical Narratives, Created via Participatory Research (abstract) |
15:00 | Listening to superdiverse under-served communities is not enough: why participatory research matters. (abstract) |
15:15 | Bridging Civic Society and Higher Education. A Community-Based Participatory Research for Social Innovation (abstract) |
15:30 | Participatory Action Research as processual methodology (abstract) |
Thursday, September 25th
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08:30-10:30 Session 12A: 66-De-centring Knowledge Production: Rethinking Methods and Strategies for Gender and Sexuality Research
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08:30 | The gendered habitus: on the surprising gendered homologies in taste structures. (abstract) |
08:45 | De-centring the researcher’s gaze: How to make room for new imaginaries and framings around gender(s) and relationships? (abstract) |
09:00 | Strategic Invisibility and Everyday Activism: Navigating the Intersectional Lives of Queer Women in Pakistan A Qualitative Exploration of Resistance, Intersectionality, and Digital Community-Building (abstract) |
09:15 | Gender Disparities in STEM Job Markets: Insights from LinkedIn Data (abstract) |
09:30 | Un/Welcoming. Gender and power relations in the urban public space (abstract) |
09:45 | Plasticity, Deepfakes, and Leaky Feminism: Deepfakes in India (abstract) |
08:30-10:30 Session 12B: 67-Autoethnography as a Method in Social and Social-Health Services. Opportunities and Critical Issues
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08:30 | Deafness, discrimination, rehabilitation on implant cochlear (abstract) |
08:45 | Epistemic Liasons on the Verge of ‘Dangerous’ Knowledge Production: Autoethnography, Sexual Discrimination, and Queer Trauma in Turkish Academia (abstract) |
09:00 | The end of the world as I knew it (abstract) |
09:15 | Autoethnography in queer studies and in trans struggles (abstract) |
09:30 | Precarious Balances: Gender, Childhood, and Political Violence in an Autoethnographic Study (abstract) |
09:45 | Entering and interpreting organizational cultures in healthcare: opportunities and dilemmas from an illness autoethnography (abstract) |
10:00 | Collaborative autoethnography as a tool for exploring ethical dilemmas and tensions in social work with migrants. (abstract) |
08:30-10:30 Session 12C: 52-Reimagining Social Research in the Data-Driven Age. Risks, Opportunities and Ethical Challenges
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08:30 | Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Social Theory: Epistemological and Ethical Challenges (abstract) |
08:45 | Deepfake and Artificial Intelligence: The Emotional Impacts of New Forms of Revenge Porn (abstract) |
09:00 | Building AI Competence in Teachers: A Framework for Professional Development in Higher Education (abstract) |
09:15 | AI ethics in Higher Education (abstract) |
09:30 | Simulation and Duplication. Reading AI from the Perspective of J.R. Searle (abstract) |
09:45 | Understanding the narrative of non-binary identities online: between heuristic potential and the pitfalls of digital data (abstract) |
08:30-10:30 Session 12D: 47-Social Network Analysis as a methodological tool for Science and Technology Studies: Challenges, opportunities, perspectives
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08:30 | Integrating SNA into the Cartography of Controversies: A Method for Examining Ethics in Building Social Science Research Infrastructures (abstract) |
08:45 | Why Auguste Comte has never been modern (abstract) |
09:00 | A three-dimensional approach to brokerage in networks: Potential applications in STS (abstract) |
09:15 | Network of actors that shape the appropiation of technology done by the elderly in a vulnerable social situation (abstract) |
09:30 | Collaborative Networks and Knowledge Flow in the Turkish Aerospace Ecosystem (abstract) |
09:45 | Translating gambling, a pendulum swinging between knowledge and belief: using Social Network Analysis to identify the most frequently used assertions in enrollment strategies and reconstruct their black-boxing processes in a synthetic way. (abstract) |
10:00 | Studying epistemic enrolment through social network analysis. A protocol for the analysis of discursive patterns in the production of scientific knowledge (abstract) |
08:30-10:30 Session 12E: 24-The 3 P's, tools and techniques based on Big Data and Social Network Analysis for measuring political polarization, populism and post-truth in social media
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08:30 | From Viral Videos to the Ballot Box: How Digital Consumption Patterns and Populist Narratives Shape Anti-Establishment Voting in Romania (abstract) |
08:45 | Echoes of Discontent: Analyzing the Rise of Populism and Anti-European Sentiments in Spanish Political Discourse (abstract) |
09:00 | Exploring Political Polarization, Populism, and Post-Truth in the Italian Politicians' Communication during the European Elections (abstract) |
09:15 | Integrating Data Analysis in Social Sciences: A Case Study on Polarization, Populism, and Post-Truth (3 P’s) in Portugal, Spain, and Brazil (abstract) |
09:30 | Measuring political polarization in digital discourses: the case of Italy’s differentiated autonomy debate (2023-2024) (abstract) |
09:45 | Mapping Political Polarization on HPV Vaccination in Brazilian Instagram (2018-2025): A Data Science Approach Combined with Critical Discourse Analysis (abstract) |
10:00 | Measuring Reputational Risk in NGOs through Artificial Intelligence: Applying Transformers and Social Network Analysis to the Gaza-Israel Conflict (abstract) |
08:30-10:30 Session 12F: 32-Diverse definitions, methods, and approaches for studying immigrant descendants and their socio-demographic behaviours 2/2
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08:30 | The schooling of second generation in Italy. New evidence from comparison with Italian peers (abstract) |
08:45 | Marital and Reproductive Perspectives among Children of Immigrants: A Pilot Study (abstract) |
09:00 | Fertility Intentions of the Children of Immigrants: socio-economic and cultural factors (abstract) |
09:15 | Do migrant background and family status affect youth's probability of being NEET in Italy? (abstract) |
09:30 | Migrant generations and academic performance. A survey on Milano-Bicocca’s students with multiple migrant backgrounds (abstract) |
09:45 | New Generations, Old Struggles: Overcoming Employment Disadvantages for Immigrant Descendants in Italy (abstract) |
08:30-10:30 Session 12G: 68-Participation, Practice and Solidarity: Participatory Research in the Social Sciences 2/2
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08:30 | Investigating Addressing Practices in Vocational Schools: A Qualitative Approach (abstract) |
08:45 | Doing participatory research with and for older adults: co-design in healthcare innovation (abstract) |
09:00 | Scholar-Activism as Disruptive Knowledge Production? Perspectives on (De)Coloniality in Doing Research with/about Memory Activists (abstract) |
09:15 | “Stuck in the middle with you”: participatory research and positionality ambiguities in researching French Muslims’ activism (abstract) |
09:30 | Participatory action research for co-narrating on practices of resistance to access fundamental rights (abstract) |
09:45 | Solidarity in Action: Ethical and Methodological Reflections (abstract) |
10:00 | Regenerating Inner Areas through Participation: Historical Territorial Analysis and Open-source Digital Mapping in Apulia (abstract) |
08:30-10:30 Session 12H: 7-Ethnography: Reflexivity and Situated Knowledge Production 1/2
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08:30 | From stories to Table: an ethnographic mixed method approach to study online dating in Iran (abstract) |
08:45 | Between Embeddedness, Embodiment and Detachment. Multimodal approaches as strategies for investigating Cultural (Re)Production in Complex Contexts (abstract) |
09:00 | Social organizations, Pentecostalism and peripheral territoriality based on ethnographic research (abstract) |
09:15 | Virtual Ethnography and Peer Interactions: Analyzing Conversations in an Anonymous Online Service (abstract) |
09:30 | Whatsapp groups in the reorganisation of the practice of legal assistance to migrants. Ethnography of a legal assitance for asylum seekers, operated by an association in France (abstract) |
09:45 | “Generate a Pulitzer-worthy news report”: The incorporation of generative AI in newsrooms (abstract) |
10:00 | Exploring Family Cultures through analogue and digital translation methods (abstract) |
11:00-13:00 Session 13A: 39-Between Constraints and Opportunities: Rethinking Constraints as Catalysts in Ethnographic Research
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11:00 | Fieldwork as a Liminal Phase: Rites of Passage and Communitas in Participant Observation (abstract) |
11:15 | How to study migrants' long covid experiences? Analysis of the strategies used in the ViCovLong survey (abstract) |
11:30 | Privilege, extractivism, paternalism: strengths and ambivalences in ethnographies on borders and migration (abstract) |
11:45 | Entering the prison field: ethnographical reflections beyond the in-or-out dichotomy (abstract) |
12:00 | Affectivating Positionalities: Field Tensions as Research Driving Forces (abstract) |
12:15 | Critical Discussion on the Circadian Rhythms of Qualitative Research in Intra- and Extra-Mural Detention. (abstract) |
11:00-13:00 Session 13B: 42-Logic and Methodology in Sociology of Law and Deviance 2/2
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11:00 | Legal implementation processes for people in housing emergency: Overcoming mono-ethnic housing settlements for Roma and Sinti in Venice as an anti-oppressive practice? (abstract) |
11:15 | Assessing the impact: PANDEMIC legislation and CHILDREN’S RIGHT (abstract) |
11:30 | Reconstructing the Child’s Best Interests in Italian and Northern Irish Juvenile Justice. Methodological insights from a mixed-methods comparative study (abstract) |
11:45 | Environmental crimes and Institutional capacity in the Brazilian Amazon (abstract) |
12:00 | The border object: from law to the social sciences to the empirical social sciences of law (abstract) |
11:00-13:00 Session 13C: 36-Mixed Methods at the Digital Turn: How Digital is Reshaping Mixed Methods Research 2/2
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11:00 | Ethical concerns and data quality and validity issues in mixed methods (abstract) |
11:15 | Investigating Algorithm Awareness in Medical AI: A Multidimensional Literacy Approach (abstract) |
11:30 | Organizational Analysis in Public Administration: between traditional and digital tools for research on public managers. (abstract) |
11:45 | How do I talk about myself and how do they talk about me? Using mixed methods to study biographical pages on Wikipedia. (abstract) |
12:00 | Understanding refused knowledge communities as sociodigital worlds. Deploying mixed-method strategies to study online discursive spaces (abstract) |
11:00-13:00 Session 13D: 58-Qualitative Multimodal Approaches: Ethics and Practice in Visual, Creative, and Participatory Methods 1/2
Chairs:
11:00 | Tourism Conflicts and Participatory Research in Rural Spain: the Case of Albarracín. Ethical and Methodological Considerations. (abstract) |
11:15 | A qualitative study with multimodal approaches in the Genoese context: challenges and identity representations of older people. (abstract) |
11:30 | Multimodal Qualitative Approaches to Urban Space: Mapping Perceptions and Sensory Engagement with the River Someș in Cluj-Napoca (abstract) |
11:45 | Rethinking social work in the framework of the Capability Approach: learnings from participatory research (abstract) |
12:00 | Making the urban imaginary visible. The use of creative techniques for the study of youth representations of Florence (abstract) |
12:15 | Evaluating a Community Based Program to enhance Language Proficiency for Families in a Vulnerable Area: Reflections on Using a Qualitative Multimodal Approach (abstract) |
11:00-13:00 Session 13E: 8-Embracing Open Science: Methodological and Epistemological Challenges in Research Infrastructures for the Social Sciences 2/2
Chairs:
11:00 | Charting the Landscape of Open Data: Research Trends and Perspectives (abstract) |
11:15 | The trustworthiness as a requirement for a data archive: an opportunity to improve tools and procedures (abstract) |
11:30 | FAIR social science data enhancement (abstract) |
11:45 | Unlocking Research Potential: The Role of Data Repositories in Supporting Researchers and Data Stewards (abstract) |
12:00 | Anonymization and Archiving practices in Longitudinal Qualitative Studies: Ethical Dilemmas in the ILQA-19 Project (abstract) |
11:00-13:00 Session 13F: 12-Dealing with (intense) emotions and feelings during qualitative fieldwork: How ready can we be? 3/3
Chair:
11:00 | Affectively Dissonant Field. Dealing with ethical, emotional and gendered tensions in ethnographic fieldwork with Conspiracy Theorists (abstract) |
11:15 | Navigating Emotional Landscapes in Qualitative Fieldwork: How Prepared Are We Really? (abstract) |
11:30 | Navigating Positionality, Emotions, and Political Polarization in Ethnographic Research on Middle-Class Lifestyles in Istanbul (abstract) |
11:45 | Unspoken Anger: Confronting Power Struggles and the Researcher’s Hidden Emotions (abstract) |
12:00 | Victims, offenders and emotions: empirical and ethical challenges in the study of gender-based violence (abstract) |
11:00-13:00 Session 13G: 13-Methodological Challenges and Approaches for Sociodigital Research 3/3
Chairs:
11:00 | Towards a Sociodigital Assessment of AI Systems: Enhancing AI risks’ Frameworks with Social Research Methods (abstract) |
11:15 | Investigating Hybrid Collective Action Fields through Social Media data: empirical observations and methodological reflections (abstract) |
11:30 | Choreographing Digital Futures: ChatGPT and the Ethnography of Human-AI Speculation (abstract) |
11:45 | Autoethnography, Algorithmic Agency, and Sociodigital Intra-Action (abstract) |
12:00 | Methodological Challenges and Ethical Dilemmas in Conducting Research on the ICT-Mediated Sex Markets in Italy. (abstract) |
12:15 | Feminist digital ethnographic methods for researching digital and queer femininities (abstract) |
11:00-13:00 Session 13H: 21-Exploring inequalities in contemporary societies 1/2
Chair:
11:00 | Meritocracy and Inequality in South Africa: Understanding Changes in Beliefs and their Influence on Demand for Redistribution (abstract) |
11:15 | How to become a man in pink. Unemployment effects on male integration in female dominated occupations in Spain. (abstract) |
11:30 | Digital Inequalities and Misinformation Vulnerability in Rural India (abstract) |
11:45 | Changes in the College Mobility Pipeline Since 1900 (abstract) |
12:00 | Does It Matter Who Is More Educated? Assessing the Impact of Parental Education Homogamy on Student Outcomes Using a Parental Homogamy Index (abstract) |
12:15 | More Integration than Differentiation: Multilevel Regression and Dummy Variable Regression in Explaining the Territorial Gaps (abstract) |
12:30 | Gender, Ethnicity, and Intersectional Employment Discrimination in Ethiopia: Identifying Sources of Discrimination (abstract) |
11:00-13:00 Session 13I: 21-Exploring inequalities in contemporary societies 2/2
Chair:
11:00 | Intersectional Class in Hybrid Societies: A Model for Analyzing General Social Inequality (abstract) |
11:15 | Towards a Unified Research Framework for Studying Socio-Digital Inequalities in the European Cultural Field (abstract) |
11:30 | Unpacking the relationship: Do countries with higher child poverty rates have more educational poverty, and if yes: why? (abstract) |
11:45 | Motherhood penalty and performance-based systems: an insight on Italian public administrations. (abstract) |
12:00 | A double-edged sword: does the use of AI and other digital technologies reduce or exacerbate existing gender inequalities in the labour market? (abstract) |
12:15 | Intersecting Inequalities: Class and Gender in the Division of Household Labour in Croatia (abstract) |
11:00-13:00 Session 13J: 7-Ethnography: Reflexivity and Situated Knowledge Production 2/2
Chairs:
11:00 | Marketplaces as challenging research contexts: adapting ethnography to field’s rhythms and temporalities (abstract) |
11:15 | Ethnography as a Tool for Unveiling the Faults of Inclusion: Investigating Housing Access and Migration in Campania (abstract) |
11:30 | Beyond distance: embodied knowledge in ethnographic research (abstract) |
11:45 | Situated context-specific knowledge production and reflexivity: Methodological and epistemological perspectives between ethnography and biographical research methods in Migration Research (abstract) |
12:00 | Being a Tourist While Researching Tourists: A Reflexive Approach to Complex Emotions in Tourism Fieldwork (abstract) |
12:15 | "Clap for Jesus": sounds and interactions in worship services in the Santa Marta favela (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 14A: 56-Growing Outside the Black Box: Methodological Challenges of Studying LLMs
Chairs:
14:15 | Unveiling the Black Box: Ethical risks and the transformation of creativity in generative AI (abstract) |
14:30 | ML-based annotation outperforms human coder for annotation tasks: not so fast. Contrasting race annotation results for YouTubers generated by ChatGPT and Gemini with qualitative assessments from human coders. (abstract) |
14:45 | Building Critical Capacities for Sociological Engagement with LLMs: an interdisciplinary experiment. (abstract) |
15:00 | Measuring Algorithmic Content Distribution in Political Communication: Exposure Patterns on TikTok using Social Research Bots (abstract) |
15:15 | Behind the scenes of AI-Generated Chatbots: Technical choices and epistemological impacts (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 14B: 11-Breaking up the Narrative: Addressing the Quality and Applicability Challenges of Open Government Data
Chairs:
14:15 | Quality and use of open government data: an exploratory analysis of the Italian context (abstract) |
14:30 | Open, But Not Always Usable: Tackling Quality Challenges in Government Data (abstract) |
14:45 | Opportunities and Challenges of Open Government Data for Socio-Demographic Research: Insights from the Municipality of Milan, the Lombardy Region, and ISTAT (abstract) |
15:00 | Grappling with methodology: the rise (and fall) of The Guardian newspaper’s campaign for open government data. (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 14C: 45-Social Impacts evaluation measurement: what opportunities for data aggregation and knowledge of the social economy and communities
Chairs:
14:15 | Public administrations and the Third Sector facing the challenge of Social Impact Assessment: from guidelines to participatory processes (abstract) |
14:30 | GENDER EQUALITY AND CARE TASKS: THE IMPACT OF WELFARE INTERVENTIONS IMPLEMENTED BY THE THIRD SECTOR IN GENDER-RELATED INDEXES (abstract) |
14:45 | Why do not recipients become receivers? An analysis of the causes of non-take-up of social benefits in Italy (abstract) |
15:00 | Balancing micro and macro: methodological challenges in social impact assessment for the Third sector and social economy (abstract) |
15:15 | Social impact assessment (SIA) in projects financed with the resources of art. 72 of the Third Sector Code: a potential vehicle for transforming institutional culture? (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 14D: 32-Diverse definitions, methods, and approaches for studying immigrant descendants and their socio-demographic behaviours 1/2
Chairs:
14:15 | Voluntary departures of Unaccompanied Foreign Minors from reception facilities In Italy: (abstract) |
14:30 | The subjective well-being of immigrant and native adolescents in Europe (abstract) |
14:45 | Generational Perspectives on Democracy: Migrants' Satisfaction Across National and European Levels (abstract) |
15:00 | How Migrant Backgrounds Shape Early Preferences for Parenthood Timing: A Comparison Between Natives and Second-Generation Immigrants in a Student Cohort in Lombardy (Italy) (abstract) |
15:15 | Beyond Formal Rights: The Impact of National Integration Policies on Political Participation of Immigrant Descendants in Southern Europe (abstract) |
15:30 | Home or Transition: The Relationship Between the Descendants of Migrants and Their Living Environment, Between Rootedness and Mobility (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 14E: 30-Conducting Research with Vulnerable Subjects: Challenges, Methodological Choices, and Ethical Solutions 1/2
Chairs:
14:15 | Translating Power: Ethics and Methodology in Forced Migration Research (abstract) |
14:30 | Beyond Academic Extractivism: Ethical and Methodological Challenges in Qualitative Research with Vulnerable Populations in Latin America (abstract) |
14:45 | Doing decolonial-feminist research with double-colonized women - Insights from field ethnography in India’s urban peripheries (abstract) |
15:00 | Hard-to-survey populations and data reuse. Ethical paradoxes of open data in migration field (abstract) |
15:15 | COMBINING LIFE GRID WITH BIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVE APPROACH IN RECONSTRUCTING LIVING SITUATION OF METRO MANILA’S STREET DWELLERS (abstract) |
15:30 | Navigating Ethical and Emotional Challenges in Patient-Partner Research: Reflections on Two Cases of Disengagement (abstract) |
15:45 | Beyond Anonymity: Ethical and Methodological Challenges in Digital Research on Gender-Based Violence and Comprehensive Protection of Women Victims (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 14F: 2-Creativity and sociology. Using creative sources in sociological research 2/2
Chairs:
14:15 | “Auto-dramas” as sources for sociological analysis. The case of the Teatro Povero di Monticchiello as an example of a “narrating community” (abstract) |
14:30 | Using LEGO® to talk about emotional wellbeing in Higher Education: A Case Study (abstract) |
14:45 | Art and disorder: levers of the sociological imagination? A confrontation between creatives and social scientists to re-evaluate analogue practices and reinsert them into digital contexts (abstract) |
15:00 | Beyond Books: The Social and Spatial Anthropology of SOAS Library (abstract) |
15:15 | Exploring the Epistemological and Methodological possibilities of Participatory Comic through the Experiences of Black 2SLGBTQ+ Youth in Canada (abstract) |
15:30 | "Crime, Literature, and Creative Methodology: Analyzing Deviance through The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrère" (abstract) |
15:45 | Theatre as a Tool for the Researcher’s Work with Groups and on Oneself: Elements to Build a Theatrical Sociology (abstract) |
14:15-16:15 Session 14G: 1-Online communities as a research object 2/2
Chairs:
14:15 | Digital Feminism and Social Accountability: A Cross-Case Analysis of Non Una Di Meno and Strajk Kobiet (abstract) |
14:30 | Navigare nelle scelte non riproduttive: uno studio etnografico digitale sulla discriminazione sul posto di lavoro nella comunità r/childfree (abstract) |
14:45 | Hidden Architectures of Care and Harm: Cross-Platform Rituals in Pro-Eating Disorder Spaces (abstract) |
15:00 | Embodied Interaction and Habituation in Virtual Reality: A Digital Anthropological Inquiry (abstract) |
15:15 | "Easy Way Out" or Empowered Choice? Examining the Online Lived Experiences of Bariatric Surgery Patients (abstract) |
15:30 | Instagram for escaping and reinforcing stigma: the case of vulvodynia (abstract) |
15:45 | Italian Feminist Micro-Influencers on Instagram: Digital Activism Between Online Communities and Offline Action (abstract) |
16:45-18:45 Session 15A: 19-Integrating Digital Trace and Media Data into Surveys: Advances, Methodological Challenges and Applications
Chairs:
16:45 | The SWIPE Module: A Survey Tool Linking Individuals' Social Media Preferences with Influencers' Activity (abstract) |
17:00 | Data Donation Approach on Mobile Devices: Comparing Self-Reports and Mobile Tracker Data (abstract) |
17:15 | How does Social Media shape the Public Discourse? Applying Computational Text Analysis to Open-Ended Survey Questions (abstract) |
17:30 | Estimating COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake from Donated Digital Behavioural Data (abstract) |
17:45 | Predicting Migrant Acceptance: Investigating the Impact of Social Media Discourse on Public Perceptions of Migration (abstract) |
16:45-18:45 Session 15B: 63-“Captive Data”: Methodological Approaches to Data Collection and Analysis in Prison Settings
Chairs:
16:45 | Navigating the Challenges of Qualitative Research in Prison Settings: Between Ethnographic Ambitions and Methodological Constraints (abstract) |
17:00 | Methodological challenges and benefits of using qualitative methods in a prison setting (abstract) |
17:15 | How does imprisonment impact mothering identity: Narratives of pregnant mothers in a Philippine women’s prison (abstract) |
17:30 | Using Grounded Theory to study re-socialization strategies at the CUD and CUSAM Centres in Buenos Aires. (abstract) |
17:45 | Measuring social atmosphere in Slovenian prisons - quantitative measures (abstract) |
16:45-18:45 Session 15C: 41-Indicators of Sustainability
Chairs:
16:45 | The Real Force Behind Buying Organic: Social Norms Over Knowledge (abstract) |
17:00 | A Systematic Review of Sustainable Tourism Indicators Using LLM-Based Classification (abstract) |
17:15 | Research of slow tourism in rural Hungary – the area of Szeged (abstract) |
17:30 | Measuring Climate Change Scepticism. Using a 12 item rating scale or its 8 item short version (abstract) |
17:45 | Environmental stress. Analysing environmental inequality in the context of climate change. (abstract) |
18:00 | Assessing Sustainability in Higher Education: Epistemological and Methodological Challenges in Teaching and Research Indicators (abstract) |
16:45-18:45 Session 15D: 27-Disability studies and qualitative research. Research strategies and roles for promoting social change people with disabilities.
Chair TBD
16:45 | Co-Creation of Knowledge: Rethinking Collaborative Research with People with Disabilities for an Inclusive and Sustainable Society (abstract) |
17:00 | Participatory (Action) Research in the field of disability studies: suggestions from a research in Lombardy (Itay) (abstract) |
17:15 | Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) e Tassonomia Sociale Europea: impatti sulle comunità locali. Il caso Valle d'Aosta (abstract) |
17:30 | Ensuring Accessibility of Disability Research - Rights, Participation and Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities as Research Participants and Researchers. (abstract) |
17:45 | Universitabile : a case study in Roman university context to understand the inclusion of people with disabilities and SLDs (abstract) |
18:00 | Reflective methodologies and inclusive approaches in peer tutoring for students with disabilities: a qualitative inquiry (abstract) |
16:45-18:45 Session 15E: 58-Qualitative Multimodal Approaches: Ethics and Practice in Visual, Creative, and Participatory Methods 2/2
Chairs:
16:45 | Integrating Qualitative Interviewing and Video-based Experience Sampling Methods for Sociological Research (abstract) |
17:00 | Framing Ethics and Power in Participatory Research-Creation: A Case Study of Oral History Photography (abstract) |
17:15 | Creative methods for developing critical literacies about technology in a multidisciplinary classroom (abstract) |
17:30 | Collaborative Filmmaking as a Creative and Participatory Approach to Research on Late Parenthood (abstract) |
17:45 | Imagining and making fairer futures with community tech: Developing creative and collaborative visual methods (abstract) |
18:00 | Beyond the Researcher: Reflection on the Role of Stakeholders in Participatory Research (abstract) |
18:15 | A mixed-methods approach to the study of housing conflicts between different local actors (abstract) |
16:45-18:45 Session 15F: 61-Exploring Arts-Based Methods to Challenge Social Injustice and Inequalities 1/2
Chairs:
16:45 | Drawing emotions. Exploring the emotional labour of healthcare professionals (abstract) |
17:00 | Objects reclaim their existence. Creative research methods in the exploration of vulvodynia (abstract) |
17:15 | Disrupting power relations in migration studies through collaborative poetic inquiry (abstract) |
17:30 | Reimagining Home: Arts-Based Approaches to Queer Cohousing (abstract) |
17:45 | Autoethnography of a survivor group Some methodological reflections on trauma narration (abstract) |
18:00 | Engaging young people in multicultural learning environments through emotional cartography: two case-studies in the city of Milan (abstract) |
18:15 | Carnival as an instrument of training and education: parades as a discursive and historiographical practice. (abstract) |
16:45-18:45 Session 15G: 43-Machine Learning and Social Research: Methodological Challenges and Innovative Applications 2/2
Chairs:
16:45 | ML methods for the study of demographic literacy: an example related to population ageing (abstract) |
17:00 | AI Model Inspection for Social Sciences: A Framework for Future Research (abstract) |
17:15 | Public Sentiment on Healthcare: Machine Learning on Google Trends, Bluesky, Reddit, and YouTube data (abstract) |
17:30 | Digital Twin Narratives Through AI-Powered Methods. (abstract) |
17:45 | The Use and Pitfalls of Indirect Questioning Techniques: An AI-Assisted Systematic Literature Review (abstract) |
18:00 | Descriptions of women are longer than that of men: An analysis of gender portrayal prompts in Stable Diffusion. (abstract) |
16:45-18:45 Session 15H: 30-Conducting Research with Vulnerable Subjects: Challenges, Methodological Choices, and Ethical Solutions 2/2
Chairs:
16:45 | Words of "terro": insights from qualitative fieldwork among radicalized prisoners (abstract) |
17:00 | Ethical recommendations and mitigation measure of risks in the Horizon RESONANT project: Diaspora communities as target groups of Foreign Information Manipulation and Suppression (abstract) |
17:15 | Participatory Approaches for Evaluating the Impact of Return Migration Policies: The Case of Returnees in Tunisia and Morocco (abstract) |
17:30 | Processes and ethical reflections in the communication and dissemination of sociological research on the return processes of migrant women. We Propose: A Case Study (abstract) |
17:45 | Computational approaches to vulnerability: ethical and methodological challenges in the analysis of marginalized identities in digital communities (abstract) |
18:00 | Collecting data within Roma communities during the Covid-19 pandemic: Ethical dilemmas and methodological considerations (abstract) |
18:15 | Navigating the Ethical Maze: Dynamic Risk Management and Adaptive Ethics in High-Stakes Field Research in Egypt (abstract) |