11ICSSM: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL SCIENCE METHODOLOGY
PROGRAM

Days: Monday, September 22nd Tuesday, September 23rd Wednesday, September 24th Thursday, September 25th

Monday, September 22nd

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14:15-16:00 Session 1A: 28-Rethinking Multi-sited Ethnography: Contemporary Methodological Challenges and Innovations
Location: T1
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
The discursive construction of security. An ethnography of security and migration discourses in schools in Germany and France (abstract)
14:15-16:00 Session 1B: 20-Using Visual Methods in Unstructured Data Collection for Hard to Study Populations
Location: II2
14:15
Visualizing Prevention: The Role of Photography in Urban Violence Research and Advocacy (abstract)
14:30
Detecting, Typologizing, and Quantifying Visual Cultural Phenomena with Multimodal Language Models (abstract)
14:45
Advantages and challenges of repeated life mapping in longitudinal qualitative research (abstract)
15:00
Using drawings and paintings to explore sensitive topics among orphaned children (abstract)
15:15
Unveiling Representation: A Discourse and Visual Analysis of First Nations in Discover Canada (abstract)
14:15-16:00 Session 1C: 71-Migration and decolonialism
Location: T2
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)
14:15-16:00 Session 1D: 26-Place, people, space: old and new challenges of non-native populations
Location: T3
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
A finer fabric of segregation: local and multiscalar measures of socio-spatial heterogeneity (abstract)
15:15
Environmental stress. Analysing environmental inequality in the context of climate change. (abstract)
14:15-16:00 Session 1E: 22-Data-driven approach in healthcare system
Location: I1 (Aula Magna)
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)
14:15-16:00 Session 1F: 33-Leave us kids alone… or don’t? Methodological challenges and ethical concerns when doing research with children I
Location: I2
14:15
Home-Based Inequalities in Primary School: Rethinking Current Measures of Household SES (abstract)
14:30
Youth participation in research - insights from the SOBRU Study (abstract)
14:45
Exploring Children Attitudes towards Mathematics in Primary School: methodological concerns and technical choices (abstract)
15:00
"The ideal student" versus "The popular student": children's visual voices on the production of inequalities within the classroom (abstract)
14:15-16:00 Session 1G: 2-Creativity and sociology. Using creative sources in sociological research I
Location: SCDT
14:15
Narrative Representations of Migration in Contemporary Italian Literature: A Methodological Exploration of Migrant Authors’ Novels (2013–2024) (abstract)
14:30
Kamishibai as a data collection method for social research: when creativity and participatory research interact (abstract)
14:45
Is culture under attack? The novel as a tool for understanding digital society (abstract)
15:00
Exploring the Epistemological and Methodological possibilities of Participatory Comic through the Experiences of Black 2SLGBTQ+ Youth in Canada (abstract)
14:15-16:00 Session 1H: 37-New Perspectives for Intersectionality Research, Policy and Practice I
Location: II1
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
Property status and wife beating justification in Ghana: an integrated theoretical approach (abstract)
15:00
A Multilayered Analysis of Power Dynamics in Education Governance: A Case Study in Chile´s Urban Periphery (abstract)
15:15
Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis as a Methodological Dispositif to Study Sociodigital Intra-actions (abstract)
16:00-16:30Coffee Break
16:30-18:30 Session 2A: 10-Territory and Social Phenomena in the Digital Age: Opportunities and Challenges of User Spatial Content
Location: T3
16:30
A multidimensional index to measure urban inequalities at a micro spatial scale (abstract)
16:45
Sociology and Territory: Exploring New Data Sources for Social Analysis in Geographic Space (abstract)
17:00
Aligning subjective ratings with objective environmental metrics: what do participants refer to when asked about their place of residence? (abstract)
17:15
Unlocking Geographic Insights from Social Media: The Role of Geoparsing in Social Research (abstract)
17:30
Mapping Inequality: Integrating Geospatial and User-Generated Data (abstract)
16:30-18:30 Session 2B: 70-How can We Counteract Methodological Challenges with Surveying Vulnerable/Hard-to-Reach Populations?
Location: I1 (Aula Magna)
16:30
Identifying disability among children using self-reported surveys (abstract)
16:45
Ensuring representativeness in surveys of hard-to-reach populations: The role of proxy respondents in the SWISS100 Study (abstract)
17:00
Expanding Survey Inclusion: Integrating Nursing Home Residents into Longitudinal Ageing Research (abstract)
17:15
How to study migrants' long covid experiences? Analysis of the strategies used in the ViCovLong survey (abstract)
17:30
Investigating Romantic and Sexual Attitudes Among University Students in Turkey: A Study on Gender, Religiosity, and Social Norms (abstract)
16:30-18:30 Session 2C: 46-Digital methods in organized crime research: investigating mafia networks in the digital age
Location: I2
16:30
PLATFORMIZING CAMORRA ON TIKTOK: FROM GRASSROOTS ECONOMICS TO LIFESTYLE DISPLAYS AND SOCIAL CONSENSUS (abstract)
16:45
Scarface, myth and celebration of youth and crime in the shadow of TikTok: a netnographic investigation (abstract)
17:00
Interpretative Intersections Between Digital Crime and Organized Crime in the Technical Production of Imaginary and Criminally Relevant Materiality (abstract)
16:30-18:30 Session 2D: 27-Disability studies and qualitative research. Research strategies and roles for promoting social change people with disabilities.
Location: T1
16:30
Co-Creation of Knowledge: Rethinking Collaborative Research with People with Disabilities for an Inclusive and Sustainable Society (abstract)
16:45
Participatory (Action) Research in the field of disability studies: suggestions from a research in Lombardy (Itay) (abstract)
17:00
Ensuring Accessibility of Disability Research - Rights, Participation and Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities as Research Participants and Researchers. (abstract)
16:30-18:30 Session 2E: 34-Measurement Equivalence of Values and Attitudes Across Groups
Location: II2
16:30
Measuring Populism in Europe. Comparison and Validation in the European Social Survey. (abstract)
16:45
Beyond borders: discovering regional patterns in the variability of gender attitudes over time in EU countries (abstract)
17:00
Graph-based analysis for configural invariance in cross-national surveys (abstract)
17:15
From Parties to Citizens: What Belongs to the Cultural Cleavage and Why does it Differ Across Countries? (abstract)
17:30
Measuring Misogyny: Invariance Testing of Hostile Sexism across Time and Space (abstract)
17:45
Comparing Moral Attitudes Across Europe: Measurement Invariance and Methodological Challenges (abstract)
18:00
(Distributed paper) Testing a ‘Meaning in Life' Scale for Vulnerable Older People versus Higher Educated Younger People: Does Item Wording Make a Difference? (abstract)
16:30-18:30 Session 2F: 37-New Perspectives for Intersectionality Research, Policy and Practice II
Location: II1
16:30
Marginalized Communities and Socioeconomic Inclusion:Some aspects across Developed Societies (abstract)
16:45
Religion and precariousness in the urban peripheries in the north of the State of Rio de Janeiro. (abstract)
17:00
Investigating Expertise: Navigating the Complexities of Analyzing Expert Interviews (abstract)
17:15
THE INTERSECTION OF GENDER AND CITIZENSHIP IN MIXED MARRIAGE MODELS (abstract)
17:30
Weaving Intersectionality into Research: From Tokenism to Solidarity (abstract)
Tuesday, September 23rd

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08:30-10:30 Session 3A: 40-Telling our Stories: Critical reflection on Autoethnography and other auto-research engaging with the researchers' selves
Location: T1
08:30
Auto-ethnographing the work of “men in the shadows”: social distances and research practices among video protection operators (abstract)
08:45
An Embodied/Performative ‘I’: Shaping my illness trajectory as a patient and an STS researcher (abstract)
09:00
Loving Alongside Dementia : How Lived Experience Shapes my Research (abstract)
09:15
Un/Welcoming. Gender and power relations in the urban public space (abstract)
09:30
Urban Gazes, Collective Gazes: Metamorphosis of the Researcher-Activist and the Construction of “We” in Urban Spaces (abstract)
08:30-10:30 Session 3B: 62-Methodological challenges for social sciences: between epistemological breaks and sharing of frameworks from the perspective of inter-multi-transdisciplinarity
Location: T2
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)
08:30-10:30 Session 3C: 48-Researching sport and physical activity. Methodological challenges between tradition and innovation
Location: T3
08:30
Innovating Sports Research: Integrating Participatory, Creative, and Digital Methodologies in the Study of Inclusive Sports (abstract)
08:45
The representation strategies of Italian Paralympic athletes: Methodological implications on the use of digital data (abstract)
09:00
The “Run Rome The Marathon” as a total social fact. The Sapienza inquiry in a mixed-methods perspective (abstract)
09:15
Class Differences in Walking Styles: Results from an Interdisciplinary Experiment Between Sociology and Biomechanics (abstract)
09:30
The study of values and motivations in ethnic dances between traditional and innovative research tools. (abstract)
08:30-10:30 Session 3D: 38-Social Network Analysis for doing evaluation. Methodological challenges and empirical experiences.
Location: SCDT
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
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)
09:30
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 3E: 35-Identification and Analysis of Online Racism and Xenophobia against (Im)migrants
08:30
Auto-narratives and digital self-representation from an anthropological perspective in countering online hate speech (abstract)
08:45
Media representations of migration in digital spaces: an analysis of social media discourse in Italy (abstract)
09:00
“Never Again” in the Digital Age: Mapping Online Narratives on Jews and Hate Speech through Network Analysis (abstract)
09:15
Beyond Algorithms: A Linguistic Approach to Online Hate Speech Detection (abstract)
08:30-10:30 Session 3F: 5-Algorithm Awareness and Literacy Research: Methodological Innovations, Challenges, and Future Perspectives
Location: II2
08:30
Algorithmic literacy and cultural consumption: the Italian case. Some empirical findings from the ALGOFEED Project (abstract)
08:45
Meta-Identity, Algorithms, and Parameters: The Opaque Construction of Social Identities by Big Techs (abstract)
09:00
Assessing and Enhancing Journalists’ Algorithmic Literacy (abstract)
09:15
Algorithmic Awareness and the Future of Cultural Engagement: A Multidimensional Study in Higher Arts Education (abstract)
09:30
Algorithms and Practices of Remembrance: Exploring Algorithmic Awareness in Family Groups (abstract)
08:30-10:30 Session 3G: 69-Power and control dynamics in help relationships: methodological perspectives I
Location: I2
08:30
Social work training and anti-oppressive practices' learning. Narratives and representations of discretion in social services (abstract)
08:45
‘Teaching and learning to be an anti-oppressive social worker’. Group work as a participatory and emancipatory tool in Social work education (abstract)
09:00
Institutional traps in exiting domestic violence: data from co-research (abstract)
08:30-10:30 Session 3H: 42-Logic and Methodology in Sociology of Law and Deviance I
Location: Aula Ovale
08:30
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)
08:45
Assessing the impact: PANDEMIC legislation and CHILDREN’S RIGHT (abstract)
09:00
Reconstructing the Child’s Best Interests in Italian and Northern Irish Juvenile Justice. Methodological insights from a mixed-methods comparative study (abstract)
09:15
The border object: from law to the social sciences to the empirical social sciences of law (abstract)
08:30-10:30 Session 3I: 1-Online communities as a research object I
Location: I1 (Aula Magna)
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
Digital Ethnography and Migration: Methodological and Ethical Challenges (abstract)
09:00
Analysis of Digital Environments on ART: Sociological Opportunities and Challenges (abstract)
09:15
Non-maleficence without institutional gatekeeping? How ethical issues are addressed in empirical Digital Activism Research (abstract)
09:30
Political polarization in the world of digitalization (abstract)
09:45
Online Communities and Masculinity: A Study of the Italian Manosphere (abstract)
10:30-11:00Coffee Break
11:00-13:00 Session 4A: 53-Beyond Calculation: AI Devices as Co-Constructors of Stories and Values
Location: T1
11:00
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)
11:15
The evolution of platforms as socio-material assemblages (abstract)
11:30
Am I The AI? On the diffusion of AI-generated posts in the Am I The AssHole subreddit (abstract)
11:45
Algorithmic Agents in Academia: How AI Redefines Learning Practices and Ethical Boundaries (abstract)
12:00
Enhancing Sociological Imagination: Human-AI Collaborative Approaches in Digital Narrative Analysis (abstract)
11:00-13:00 Session 4B: 44-Sustainability and High-dimensional Data Analysis
Location: T3
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
Research on sustainable community-based services and practices with text-based data analysis (abstract)
12:00
Hierarchical composite indicators for measuring sustainability in waste management: the case of Italian municipalities (abstract)
11:00-13:00 Session 4C: 13-Methodological Challenges and Approaches for Sociodigital Research I
Location: I1 (Aula Magna)
11:00
In search of a sociodigital futures methodology for understanding predictive systems (abstract)
11:15
Learned Futures: Applying Futures Methods to Generative AI Models (abstract)
11:30
Social Research on Digital Workplace: A Sociological Approach to the Black Box Test (abstract)
11:45
Do digital news represent useful data for social research? Insights from the TIPS project (abstract)
12:00
Modelling critical AI literacies from a post-humanist perspective: a cognitive assemblage for Human-Technology-World relations (abstract)
12:15
Algorithmic Memories and User Awareness: A Pluralistic Approach (abstract)
11:00-13:30 Session 4D: 29-Methodological frontiers in the study of mobility: from digital and technological devices to mobile methods from digital and technological devices to mobile methods
Location: I2
11:00
Measuring Distance to University in Germany: How Accurate is the Straight-Line Approach? (abstract)
11:15
Chronotopic Cartographies and Storytelling in Older Adults Mobility Research (abstract)
11:30
Integrating Innovative Data Sources in Urban Mobility Studies: Methodological Reflections from the Bicocca Mobility ID Card (abstract)
11:45
Exploring bus drivers’ working conditions with mobile methods: an intersectional and spatiotemporal approach (abstract)
12:00
Urban peripheries in the accessibility to opportunities and services: a propose of classification by using public transport data (abstract)
11:00-13:00 Session 4E: 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
Location: T2
11:00
From Viral Videos to the Ballot Box: How Digital Consumption Patterns and Populist Narratives Shape Anti-Establishment Voting in Romania (abstract)
11:15
Echoes of Discontent: Analyzing the Rise of Populism and Anti-European Sentiments in Spanish Political Discourse (abstract)
11:30
Exploring Political Polarization, Populism, and Post-Truth in the Italian Politicians' Communication during the European Elections (abstract)
11:45
Integrating Data Analysis in Social Sciences: A Case Study on Polarization, Populism, and Post-Truth (3 P’s) in Portugal, Spain, and Brazil (abstract)
12:00
Measuring political polarization in digital discourses: the case of Italy’s differentiated autonomy debate (2023-2024) (abstract)
12:15
Mapping Political Polarization on HPV Vaccination in Brazilian Instagram (2018-2025): A Data Science Approach Combined with Critical Discourse Analysis (abstract)
12:30
Measuring Reputational Risk in NGOs through Artificial Intelligence: Applying Transformers and Social Network Analysis to the Gaza-Israel Conflict (abstract)
11:00-13:00 Session 4F: 57-Innovative Research Methods and Methodologies in Educational Management
Location: SCDT
11:00
New research methodology trends in educational management (abstract)
11:15
Revisiting Contemporary Sociology in Morocco: Core Themes, Approaches, and Methods (abstract)
11:30
The main factors in student satisfaction with a campus environment: A mixed approach vs. a quantitative approach. (abstract)
11:45
Identification of Metacognitive Errors – MEQue Methodology (abstract)
11:00-13:00 Session 4G: 31-Innovative network analysis applications in social sciences I
11:00
COMPLEMENTING AND ENRICHING COMPOSITE INDICATORS BY BAYESIAN NETWORKS (abstract)
11:15
Tracing Team Dynamics in Wikipedia: a sociodigital perspective (abstract)
11:30
A Network-Grounded Approach: Reconstructing the Complete Network of Healthy Lifestyles in an Italian Community (abstract)
11:45
Using network analysis to investigate youth non-response in a household panel (abstract)
12:00
Exploring the impact of social relationships on soft skills: insights from a high school survey in Italy (abstract)
11:00-13:00 Session 4H: 33-Leave us kids alone… or don’t? Methodological challenges and ethical concerns when doing research with children II
Location: II2
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 4I: 42-Logic and Methodology in Sociology of Law and Deviance II
Location: Aula Ovale
11:00
Renato Treves and the Sociology of Law between theory and practice (abstract)
11:15
Re-centering Marginalized Voices: Decolonial Praxis in Law and Deviance (abstract)
11:30
Rethinking Popular Legal Culture: Theoretical Challenges, Research Strategies, and Methodological Approaches (abstract)
11:45
Environmental crimes and Institutional capacity in the Brazilian Amazon (abstract)
14:15-16:15 Session 5A: 36-Mixed Methods at the Digital Turn: How Digital is Reshaping Mixed Methods Research I
Location: SCDT
14:15
Mixed-Methodology Reviewing of Digital Public Discourse: A Reflexive Approach to Sino-German Narratives on BRICS (abstract)
14:30
Old and New Research Designs. The Contribution of Artificial Intelligence in Mixed Methods: A Case Study (abstract)
14:45
Digital Economy Transformation and Social Mobility of Ho Chi Minh City Workers (abstract)
15:00
Embodied Interaction and Habituation in Virtual Reality: A Digital Anthropological Inquiry (abstract)
15:15
The Unrealized Potential of Correspondence Studies: Applicant-Side Inequalities in Effort, Opportunities, and Certainty (abstract)
15:30
Gender Differences in Wage Assignment: the Role of Recruiters in a Vignette Experiment (abstract)
15:45
Mixed methodology research in digital environments: remote focused interviews and network analysis to reconstruct the socio-linguistic vitality of Italian emigrants in California (abstract)
14:15-16:15 Session 5B: 12-Dealing with (intense) emotions and feelings during qualitative fieldwork: How ready can we be? I
Location: T2
14:15
Emotional Investment and Researcher Wellbeing in Qualitative Work (abstract)
14:30
Navigating Emotional Labor in Qualitative Research: The Vulnerable Observer in Emotionally Charged Fieldwork (abstract)
14:45
Between Discomfort and Understanding: The Emotional Toll of Qualitative Research on the Far Right (abstract)
15:00
Balancing Normalization and Expression: The Role of Methodological Reflexivity in Exploring Neonatal Intensive Care Emotional Challenges (abstract)
15:15
Emotional Work in Breast Cancer Research: Patients’ Strategies and Researcher’s Challenges (abstract)
14:15-16:15 Session 5C: 64-New Perspectives on Gender and Politics: Current Developments and Methodological Challenges I
Location: T1
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
Towards the Construction of an Index of Women's Participation in Peacebuilding (abstract)
15:15
Analyzing the Heterogeneity of Gender Attitudes Drivers: findings from the UNTWIST Project. (abstract)
14:15-16:15 Session 5D: 15-Measuring and Comparing Social and Political Values and Attitudes in Turbulent Times I
Location: T3
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
Measuring religiosity in the European Social Survey: Cross-temporal and cross-country measurement invariance (abstract)
14:15-16:15 Session 5E: 23-Small and big secrets – how to deal with sensitive topics in qualitative and quantitative research I
Location: I1 (Aula Magna)
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
Family of Origin and Future Relationships: Representations and Narratives of Italian Young Adults (abstract)
14:15-16:15 Session 5F: 50-The Utilization of AI-Powered Tools in Social Research: Opportunities, Implications and Prospects I
Location: I2
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
AI-in-use. An exploratory mixed-method study on human-AI collaboration among PhD fellow researchers in social sciences (abstract)
15:00
Methodological Innovation and Limitations of Artificial Intelligence in Social Research: A Critical Approach (abstract)
15:15
Navigating Adversarial Vulnerabilities: Critical Challenges for AI Integration in Social Research (abstract)
15:30
When is Gen-AI welcome in a thematic analysis? Reflections on appropriate use of CAQDAS-integrated Gen-AI tools (abstract)
15:45
Assessing the Effectiveness of LLMs in the Evaluation of Draft Survey Questions Using Rule-Based QDET Frameworks (abstract)
14:15-16:15 Session 5G: 8-Embracing Open Science: Methodological and Epistemological Challenges in Research Infrastructures for the Social Sciences I
Location: Aula Ovale
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 5H: 4-Disinformation Studies: Methodological Challenges and New Research Frontiers I
Location: II2
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
Social media as a medium for organizing crimes against national security in the context of a full-scale Russian invasion in Ukraine (abstract)
15:00
Translation, Participation, and Reverse Influence: Studying Disinformation as Communicative Practice (abstract)
16:45-18:45 Session 6: Plenary Session
16:45
Institutional greetings from the Director of the Department of Social Sciences
16:55
Welcome
17:05
Institutional greetings from the President of the ISA RC33
17:15
Text as data: From Media Studies to Digital Sociology and Emerging Technologies
17:35
Rethinking Populations and Cases. Implications of Taking into Account Digitalization, Migration and Decolonial Contexts
17:55
Methodology in the Peripheries: Circulation, Appropriation, and Production of Methodological Knowledge in Latin America.
19:00-22:00Social Event - Welcome Reception
Wednesday, September 24th

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08:30-10:30 Session 7A: 51-Territorial Crossing Practices and Urban Dérive: Sensory Approaches to Reading and Interpreting Social Processes
Location: I1 (Aula Magna)
08:30
Visions of Petrotoxicity. Writing about Petro-camouflage in Los Angeles streets (abstract)
08:45
Flânerie, Gender, and Intersectionality in Urban Traversal Practices (abstract)
09:00
AN ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EVANGELICALS AND THE SAMBA COMMUNITY IN THE TERRITORY OF MORRO DA MANGUEIRA (abstract)
09:15
Territorial Perceptions and Everyday Navigations: Sensory and Social Mapping of the River Someș in Cluj-Napoca (abstract)
09:30
What does an overtouristified city sound like? Soundpostcards from Venice to Ralph Rumney (abstract)
08:30-10:30 Session 7B: 55-Doing Decolonial Research in Global South Cities
Location: T3
08:30
Decolonial Methods in Practice: Challenges, Contradictions, and the Case for Participatory Qualitative Analysis (abstract)
08:45
Griotisme as a method, Decolonial storytelling and dialogue for rethinking urban research in West Africa (abstract)
09:00
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 7C: 60-Emotions: A New Challenge for the Epistemology of Social Science
Location: I2
08:30
Affective Exchanges in the Field: Co-constructing Situated Knowledges (abstract)
08:45
Bringing emotions from backstage to the Fore. Participatory Action Research with and on Young People (abstract)
09:00
Unveiling Empathy in Social Scientific Research: Emotional Reciprocity Beyond the Interview Setting (abstract)
09:15
Anxiety as a social phenomenon: a study of emotions in the uncertain society (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)
08:30-10:30 Session 7D: 31-Innovative network analysis applications in social sciences II
Location: Aula Ovale
08:30
Assessing Peer Effects Through a Network Lens: Survey Design and Privacy Considerations (abstract)
08:45
Mapping Epistemic Networks: A Diagnostic Model of Knowledge Dynamics, Polarization, and Authority Structures (abstract)
09:00
Corruption, Composite Indicators and Network Analysis (abstract)
08:30-10:30 Session 7E: 6-Queer methods. Untangling tensions between queer and social science methodologies I
Location: T1
08:30
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)
08:45
Autoethnographic Methodology in the Approach to Paul B. Preciado’s Trans Philosophy (abstract)
09:00
Beyond categories: identities in transit and new onlife perspectives in social research (abstract)
09:15
Wittgenstein’s Family Resemblance as a Conceptual Tool for Queer Research (abstract)
09:30
Queerly Consensual: Embracing Fluidity and Relationality in Research Consent Practices (abstract)
08:30-10:30 Session 7F: 12-Dealing with (intense) emotions and feelings during qualitative fieldwork: How ready can we be? II
Location: T2
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)
08:30-10:30 Session 7G: 64-New Perspectives on Gender and Politics: Current Developments and Methodological Challenges II
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)
08:30-10:30 Session 7H: 15-Measuring and Comparing Social and Political Values and Attitudes in Turbulent Times II
Location: II2
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 7I: 25-Text as Data: The Encounter Between Sociology and Computer Science I
Location: SCDT
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
Self-presentation and personal features: a systematic analysis of hiring outcomes in an online labor market (abstract)
09:00
Topic Modeling for Argumentation Analysis: Application to Polish Parliamentary Debates on Abortion (1989–2024) (abstract)
09:15
Is automation the solution?: A critical consideration of the use of Machine Learning’s tools in literature reviews (abstract)
10:30-11:00Coffee Break
11:00-13:00 Session 8A: 9-Data visualization in the age of artificial intelligence: digital storytelling, big data and open data
Location: T3
11:00
Implications of AI and methodological innovation in data visualization and social research (abstract)
11:15
Accessible data for an informed society: Communication strategies for a data-driven future (abstract)
11:30
Data visualisation in sociological research related to aesthetic labour (abstract)
11:00-13:00 Session 8B: 41-Indicators of Sustainability
Location: I2
11:00
A Systematic Review of Sustainable Tourism Indicators Using LLM-Based Classification (abstract)
11:15
Research of slow tourism in rural Hungary – the area of Szeged (abstract)
11:30
Measuring Climate Change Scepticism. Using a 12 item rating scale or its 8 item short version (abstract)
11:45
Tracking and tackling the vertical interactions among child poverty, community resilience, conflict, and climate change (abstract)
11:00-13:00 Session 8C: 69-Power and control dynamics in help relationships: methodological perspectives II
Location: I1 (Aula Magna)
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 8D: 23-Small and big secrets – how to deal with sensitive topics in qualitative and quantitative research II
Location: T2
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 8E: 4-Disinformation Studies: Methodological Challenges and New Research Frontiers II
Location: T1
11:00
Vaccine Discourses on Telegram: Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Identify Platformized Anti-Vaccine Narratives in Brazil (abstract)
11:15
Methodological Reflections on Observing the (Co-)Construction of (Dis)information Literacy Through Interactions Between Adolescents and Journalists (abstract)
11:30
Measuring the Extent of Media Capture Through Social Network Analysis (abstract)
11:00-13:00 Session 8F: 3-Research on experts, research with experts. Methodological implications and solutions I
Location: SCDT
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)
11:00-13:00 Session 8G: 43-Machine Learning and Social Research: Methodological Challenges and Innovative Applications
Location: II2
11:00
Public Sentiment on Healthcare: Machine Learning on Google Trends, Bluesky, Reddit, and YouTube data (abstract)
11:15
Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare Narratives: A Social Media Analysis of Hospital Representations Across Europe (abstract)
11:30
The Use and Pitfalls of Indirect Questioning Techniques: An AI-Assisted Systematic Literature Review (abstract)
11:45
Artificial Intelligence and Discrimination: A vignette experiment of labour market discrimination in Large Language Models (abstract)
12:00
Early Identification of At-Risk Students: Integrating AI with Quantitative and Qualitative Data (abstract)
14:15-16:15 Session 9A: 25-Text as Data: The Encounter Between Sociology and Computer Science II
Location: T2
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
Subjective well-being and migration narratives in the context of Italian elections. An analysis with online newspaper data. (abstract)
15:15
Mapping Digital Narratives and Sociotechnical Imaginaries: A BERT-Based Computational Model (abstract)
14:15-16:15 Session 9B: 6-Queer methods. Untangling tensions between queer and social science methodologies II
Location: T1
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 9C: 64-New Perspectives on Gender and Politics: Current Developments and Methodological Challenges III
Location: T3
14:15
When anti-immigration and climate denialism meet gender: Ideological packages in Spanish news (2014–2024). (abstract)
14:30
Gendered Political Participation Among Youth: The Role of Family Resources in Shaping Formal, Informal, and Online Engagement (abstract)
14:45
Daring to dissent: Negative emotions toward the 8M protests and the rise of gender backlash in Spain (abstract)
14:15-16:15 Session 9D: 15-Measuring and Comparing Social and Political Values and Attitudes in Turbulent Times III
Location: I2
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
The cross-sectional and longitudinal comparability between ESS, EVS, and WVS from the past to the future (abstract)
15:00
Religion, modernization, and solidarity in European societies: a multilevel relationship (abstract)
14:15-16:15 Session 9E: 3-Research on experts, research with experts. Methodological implications and solutions II
Location: I1 (Aula Magna)
14:15
Fictional crisis stories: a narrative based methodology to study the expertise. (abstract)
14:30
The Future of AI: Insights from a Delphi Study of Expert Opinions (abstract)
14:45
Expertise without experience: the case of public policies to offset gambling in Italy (abstract)
14:15-16:15 Session 9F: 61-Exploring Arts-Based Methods to Challenge Social Injustice and Inequalities I
Location: SCDT
14:15
Embracing Research Brave Space through Zine-Making: Transformative Methodology in the Study of Digital Sexual Intimacies and Queer Subjectivities (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
Challenging Teachers' Stereotypes Through Arts-Based Methods: An Exploratory Study at Roma Tre University (abstract)
15:15
Negotiating Urban Space Through Alternative Narratives: Insights from an Open Drug Scene in Venice (abstract)
14:15-16:15 Session 9G: 68-Participation, Practice and Solidarity: Participatory Research in the Social Sciences I
Location: II2
14:15
Integration Participatory Methods into Research on Learning Outcomes: Strategies, Opportunities and Criticalities (abstract)
14:30
STORYLINK: Connecting Cultures Through Creative and Biographical Narratives, Created via Participatory Research (abstract)
14:45
Listening to superdiverse under-served communities is not enough: why participatory research matters. (abstract)
15:00
Bridging Civic Society and Higher Education. A Community-Based Participatory Research for Social Innovation (abstract)
15:15
Participatory Action Research as processual methodology (abstract)
16:45-18:45 Session 10: Plenary Session II
16:45
Best Paper by a Young Scholar Award
16:50
Best Paper Award
16:55
Methodological challenges for the study of inequality.
17:15
Cultivating the sociological imagination through material methods: being attentive to everyday practices of imagining
17:35
In a changing world: The consequences and challenges of societal changes for the social sciences
17:55
Questions and Answers
Thursday, September 25th

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08:30-10:30 Session 11A: 67-Autoethnography as a Method in Social and Social-Health Services. Opportunities and Critical Issues
Location: T1
08:30
Deafness, discrimination, rehabilitation on implant cochlear (abstract)
08:45
The end of the world as I knew it (abstract)
09:00
Entering and interpreting organizational cultures in healthcare: opportunities and dilemmas from an illness autoethnography (abstract)
08:30-10:30 Session 11B: 52-Reimagining Social Research in the Data-Driven Age. Risks, Opportunities and Ethical Challenges
Location: T2
08:30
AI ethics in Higher Education (abstract)
08:45
Simulation and Duplication. Reading AI from the Perspective of J.R. Searle (abstract)
09:00
Understanding the narrative of non-binary identities online: between heuristic potential and the pitfalls of digital data (abstract)
09:15
Gender Disparities in STEM Job Markets: Insights from LinkedIn Data (abstract)
08:30-10:30 Session 11C: 47-Social Network Analysis as a methodological tool for Science and Technology Studies: Challenges, opportunities, perspectives
Location: I1 (Aula Magna)
08:30
Integrating SNA into the Cartography of Controversies: A Method for Examining Ethics in Building Social Science Research Infrastructures (abstract)
08:45
A three-dimensional approach to brokerage in networks: Potential applications in STS (abstract)
09:00
Collaborative Networks and Knowledge Flow in the Turkish Aerospace Ecosystem (abstract)
09:15
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)
09:30
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 11D: 32-Diverse definitions, methods, and approaches for studying immigrant descendants and their socio-demographic behaviours I
Location: SCDT
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 11E: 68-Participation, Practice and Solidarity: Participatory Research in the Social Sciences II
Location: I2
08:30
Doing participatory research with and for older adults: co-design in healthcare innovation (abstract)
08:45
“Stuck in the middle with you”: participatory research and positionality ambiguities in researching French Muslims’ activism (abstract)
09:00
Participatory action research for co-narrating on practices of resistance to access fundamental rights (abstract)
09:15
Solidarity in Action: Ethical and Methodological Reflections (abstract)
09:30
Regenerating Inner Areas through Participation: Historical Territorial Analysis and Open-source Digital Mapping in Apulia (abstract)
08:30-10:30 Session 11F: 21-Exploring inequalities in contemporary societies I
Location: T3
08:30
Changes in the College Mobility Pipeline Since 1900 (abstract)
08:45
Does It Matter Who Is More Educated? Assessing the Impact of Parental Education Homogamy on Student Outcomes Using a Parental Homogamy Index (abstract)
09:00
More Integration than Differentiation: Multilevel Regression and Dummy Variable Regression in Explaining the Territorial Gaps (abstract)
08:30-10:30 Session 11G: 7-Ethnography: Reflexivity and Situated Knowledge Production I
Location: II2
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
Exploring Family Cultures through analogue and digital translation methods (abstract)
10:30-11:00Coffee Break
11:00-13:00 Session 12A: 36-Mixed Methods at the Digital Turn: How Digital is Reshaping Mixed Methods Research II
Location: SCDT
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 12B: 58-Qualitative Multimodal Approaches: Ethics and Practice in Visual, Creative, and Participatory Methods I
Location: I2
11:00
A qualitative study with multimodal approaches in the Genoese context: challenges and identity representations of older people. (abstract)
11:15
Multimodal Qualitative Approaches to Urban Space: Mapping Perceptions and Sensory Engagement with the River Someș in Cluj-Napoca (abstract)
11:30
Rethinking social work in the framework of the Capability Approach: learnings from participatory research (abstract)
11:45
Making the urban imaginary visible. The use of creative techniques for the study of youth representations of Florence (abstract)
12:00
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 12C: 8-Embracing Open Science: Methodological and Epistemological Challenges in Research Infrastructures for the Social Sciences II
Location: T1
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 12D: 12-Dealing with (intense) emotions and feelings during qualitative fieldwork: How ready can we be? III
Location: T2
11:00
Navigating Emotional Landscapes in Qualitative Fieldwork: How Prepared Are We Really? (abstract)
11:15
Navigating Positionality, Emotions, and Political Polarization in Ethnographic Research on Middle-Class Lifestyles in Istanbul (abstract)
11:30
Unspoken Anger: Confronting Power Struggles and the Researcher’s Hidden Emotions (abstract)
11:00-13:00 Session 12E: 13-Methodological Challenges and Approaches for Sociodigital Research II
Location: I1 (Aula Magna)
11:00
Choreographing Digital Futures: ChatGPT and the Ethnography of Human-AI Speculation (abstract)
11:15
Methodological Challenges and Ethical Dilemmas in Conducting Research on the ICT-Mediated Sex Markets in Italy. (abstract)
11:30
Towards a Sociodigital Assessment of AI Systems: Enhancing AI risks’ Frameworks with Social Research Methods (abstract)
11:45
Investigating Hybrid Collective Action Fields through Social Media data: empirical observations and methodological reflections (abstract)
12:00
Autoethnography, Algorithmic Agency, and Sociodigital Intra-Action (abstract)
12:15
Digital Twin and future settings for citizens participation to urban governance. (abstract)
11:00-13:00 Session 12F: 21-Exploring inequalities in contemporary societies II
Location: T3
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
Motherhood penalty and performance-based systems: an insight on Italian public administrations. (abstract)
11:45
A double-edged sword: does the use of AI and other digital technologies reduce or exacerbate existing gender inequalities in the labour market? (abstract)
12:00
Intersecting Inequalities: Class and Gender in the Division of Household Labour in Croatia (abstract)
11:00-13:00 Session 12G: 7-Ethnography: Reflexivity and Situated Knowledge Production II
Location: II2
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
Situated context-specific knowledge production and reflexivity: Methodological and epistemological perspectives between ethnography and biographical research methods in Migration Research (abstract)
11:45
Being a Tourist While Researching Tourists: A Reflexive Approach to Complex Emotions in Tourism Fieldwork (abstract)
14:15-16:15 Session 13A: 56-Growing Outside the Black Box: Methodological Challenges of Studying LLMs
Location: T1
14:15
Unveiling the Black Box: Ethical risks and the transformation of creativity in generative AI (abstract)
14:30
Building Critical Capacities for Sociological Engagement with LLMs: an interdisciplinary experiment. (abstract)
14:45
Behind the scenes of AI-Generated Chatbots: Technical choices and epistemological impacts (abstract)
14:15-16:15 Session 13B: 11-Breaking up the Narrative: Addressing the Quality and Applicability Challenges of Open Government Data
Location: SCDT
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 13C: 45-Social Impacts evaluation measurement: what opportunities for data aggregation and knowledge of the social economy and communities
Location: T2
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
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 13D: 32-Diverse definitions, methods, and approaches for studying immigrant descendants and their socio-demographic behaviours II
Location: T3
14:15
The subjective well-being of immigrant and native adolescents in Europe (abstract)
14:30
Generational Perspectives on Democracy: Migrants' Satisfaction Across National and European Levels (abstract)
14:45
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)
15:00
Beyond Formal Rights: The Impact of National Integration Policies on Political Participation of Immigrant Descendants in Southern Europe (abstract)
14:15-16:15 Session 13E: 30-Conducting Research with Vulnerable Subjects: Challenges, Methodological Choices, and Ethical Solutions I
Location: I1 (Aula Magna)
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)
14:15-16:15 Session 13F: 2-Creativity and sociology. Using creative sources in sociological research II
Location: II2
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)
14:15-16:15 Session 13G: 1-Online communities as a research object II
Location: I2
14:15
Digital Feminism and Social Accountability: A Cross-Case Analysis of Non Una Di Meno and Strajk Kobiet (abstract)
14:30
Navigating non-reproductive choices: a digital ethnographic study on workplace discrimination in the r/childfree community (abstract)
14:45
Is the online group around the manosphere an online community or just a discussion forum? Methodological dilemmas for research design. (abstract)
16:15-16:45Coffee Break
16:45-18:45 Session 14A: 19-Integrating Digital Trace and Media Data into Surveys: Advances, Methodological Challenges and Applications
Location: T1
16:45
How does Social Media shape the Public Discourse? Applying Computational Text Analysis to Open-Ended Survey Questions (abstract)
17:00
Estimating COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake from Donated Digital Behavioural Data (abstract)
17:15
Predicting Migrant Acceptance: Investigating the Impact of Social Media Discourse on Public Perceptions of Migration (abstract)
16:45-18:45 Session 14B: 63-“Captive Data”: Methodological Approaches to Data Collection and Analysis in Prison Settings
Location: T3
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 14C: 58-Qualitative Multimodal Approaches: Ethics and Practice in Visual, Creative, and Participatory Methods II
Location: I2
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
Collaborative Filmmaking as a Creative and Participatory Approach to Research on Late Parenthood (abstract)
17:30
Imagining and making fairer futures with community tech: Developing creative and collaborative visual methods (abstract)
17:45
Beyond the Researcher: Reflection on the Role of Stakeholders in Participatory Research (abstract)
18:00
A mixed-methods approach to the study of housing conflicts between different local actors (abstract)
16:45-18:45 Session 14D: 61-Exploring Arts-Based Methods to Challenge Social Injustice and Inequalities II
Location: T2
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
Autoethnography of a survivor group Some methodological reflections on trauma narration (abstract)
17:45
Engaging young people in multicultural learning environments through emotional cartography: two case-studies in the city of Milan (abstract)
18:00
Carnival as an instrument of training and education: parades as a discursive and historiographical practice. (abstract)
16:45-18:45 Session 14E: 30-Conducting Research with Vulnerable Subjects: Challenges, Methodological Choices, and Ethical Solutions II
Location: I1 (Aula Magna)
16:45
Ethical recommendations and mitigation measure of risks in the Horizon RESONANT project: Diaspora communities as target groups of Foreign Information Manipulation and Suppression (abstract)
17:00
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)
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Computational approaches to vulnerability: ethical and methodological challenges in the analysis of marginalized identities in digital communities (abstract)
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Navigating the Ethical Maze: Dynamic Risk Management and Adaptive Ethics in High-Stakes Field Research in Egypt (abstract)
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Universitabile : a case study in Roman university context to understand the inclusion of people with disabilities and SLDs (abstract)
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Elevating the Voices of Metro Manila’s Urban Outcasts Through the Dialogical Approach of Freire (abstract)