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• Call for papers: Transformation of civic activism under new information and communication technologies

  2021-04-09

  

  We are happy to announce Call for papers for a special issue on the topic "Transformation of civic activism under the influence of new information and communication technologies."

  Guest Editors: Elena Brodovskaya (Professor of the Department of Political Science at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Political Science) and Andrey Akhremenko (Professor of the School of Politics and Governance at the Higher School of Economics, Doctor of Political Science).

  Applications are accepted until May 11, 2021. All applicants will be informed on the editorial decision by June 1, 2021. We will expect the full texts of the papers to be submitted no later than July 30, 2021.

  Applications marked "Special Issue" should be sent to Svetlana Biryukova, Editor of the VCIOM Publishing Programs Department: biryukova_s@wciom.com

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• Special issue of our journal ‘Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Sociality: New Phenomena, Problems and Challenges for the Social Sciences’

  2021-02-23

             

  Today, February 23, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, the IV Forum of the International Sociological Association (ISA) ‘Challenges of the 21st century: Democracy, Environment, Inequality, Intersectionality’ has started. For five days, 58 ISA research committees and 800 panels will work on the forum's online platform, bringing together more than three thousand social scientists from 125 countries all over the world! We heartily welcome our colleagues, wish them productive work together, and hope that they will be interested in our journal’s first special issue in 2021. It is titled ‘Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Sociality: New Phenomena, Problems, and Challenges for the Social Sciences’. The issue will be published on our website on March 5th, 2021. Meanwhile, we present here the introductory word by Dr. Andrey V. Rezaev, the guest editor of the volume.  announcement of the issue.

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• Call for papers: «Celebrity studies: theoretical approaches and methodology of analysis»

  2020-12-30

     

   

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• SOCIOLOGICAL BOOK AWARD named after B.A. Grushin

  2020-11-26

       

   

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• Call for Papers: “Changing professions in a changing world: communities, knowledge, institutions” (No. 3, 2021)

  2020-07-22

  

  Special issue of the journal "Monitoring public opinion: economic and social changes" № 3 (2021) "Changing professions in a changing world: communities, knowledge, institutions." Guest editors - Ph.D., R.N. Abramov, Ph.D. A. Bykov, National Research University Higher School of Economics.

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• Call for Papers: Media and Communications during the COVID-19 Pandemic (No. 6, 2020)

  2020-05-19

  

  We invite you to participate in the special issue of “Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes” journal “Media and Communications during the COVID-19 Pandemic” (No. 6, 2020). Guest editor: Sergey G. Davydov, PhD in Social Philosophy, Associate Professor at HSE University.

  The social changes during the pandemic aroused tremendous interest among researchers representing various fields of scientific knowledge around the world. In our special issue, we would like to focus how COVID-19 and social restrictions related to it affected media and social communications sphere.

  Send applications in Russian or English in .pdf or .doc format before the 1^st of July, 2020, to Ilya Lomakin (Editor): lomakin_i@wciom.com.

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• Call for Papers: “Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Sociality: New Phenomena, Problems and Challenges for the Social Sciences” (№ 1, 2021)

  2020-03-26

  

  Thematic issue of the journal “Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes” No. 1 (2021) “Artificial intelligence and artificial sociality: new phenomena, problems, and challenges for the social sciences”. Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Andrey V. Rezaev, Faculty of Sociology, St. Petersburg State University.

  We invite empiricists, theorists, and practitioners who are interested in how artificial intelligence and online technologies enter everyday life, change people's lives, thereby forming new contours of social research and peculiar challenges for the social sciences and humanities.

  The spread of artificial intelligence technologies, their penetration into everyday life and professional activities in the context of the development of online culture poses new challenges for scientists. What exactly should be the subject of research? How to research — referring to what theories, using what methods? What is the specificity of the social analysis of the manifestation of artificial intelligence in everyday life, in contrast to the studies conducted by representatives of the natural sciences and engineering knowledge?

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• Open Data

  2019-12-10

  Обращаем внимание авторов и исследователей на  проект «Открытые данные». Раздел с открытыми данными дополнен новой опцией — ежемесячными аккумулированными данными "Спутника". Ссылки на страницы:  

  1. https://wciom.ru/database/baza_dannykh_roper_center/ — здесь размещаются массивы общероссийского мониторинга, проводимого в формате ежедневного общероссийского репрезентаривного телефонного опроса «Спутник». Представлены вопросы о социальном самочувствии и материальном положении россиян, их отношении к органам власти, политическим и общественным институтам, электоральных предпочтениях, протестной активности, телесмотрении и интернет-активности. В среднем под 40 тысяч интервью, проведенных за месяц, в каждом массиве. даны ссылки на методику проекта и инструментарий
  2. Страница с информацией о других наших открытых проектах https://wciom.ru/database/

   

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• Call for papers. Digitalization: Economy, Politics, Civil Society.

  2018-12-05

  

  Dear colleagues,

  We are very pleased to announce the call for papers to the guest-edited themed issue  which is planned to be published in September 2019 under the title of Digitalization: Economy, Politics, Civil Society.

   

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