#612 Ralph Schroeder: Virtual Environments, Online Politics, Populism, and Big Data
RECORDED ON JANUARY 19th 2022.
Dr. Ralph Schroeder is Professor in Social Science of the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute. Dr. Schroeder has interests in virtual environments, the social aspects of e-science, and the sociology of science and technology. He has written extensively about virtual reality technology. He is the author of several books, including Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities, and Social Theory After the Internet: Media, Technology, and Globalization.
In this episode, we talk about virtual environments, online politics, populism, and Big Data in the social sciences. We start by discussing if social interaction changes in virtual environments. We talk about selective exposure to online political content, and if that affects political behavior. We get into populism: is it a thin ideology? Is it on the rise? Finally, we discuss if Big Data is useful for the social sciences.
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Intro
Does social interaction change in virtual environments?
Immersive virtual environments
Can we learn something about people’s normal social interactions by studying their online behavior?
Selective exposure to online political content, and political behavior
Populism as a thin ideology
Is populism on the rise?
Is Big Data useful for social science?
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