Uwe Engel is Professor at the University of Bremen, Germany, where he held a chair in sociology from 2000 to 2020. From 2008 to 2013, Dr. Engel coordinated the Priority Programme on “Survey Methodology” of the German Research Foundation. His current research focuses on data science, human-robot interaction, and opinion dynamics.Anabel Quan-Haase is Professor of Sociology and Information and Media Studies at Western University and Director of the SocioDigital Media Lab, London, Canada. Her research interests include social media, social networks, life course, social capital, computational social science, and digital inequality/inclusion.Sunny Xun Liu is a research scientist at Stanford Social Media Lab, USA. Her research focuses on the social and psychological e- ects of social media and AI, social media and well-being, and how the design of social robots impacts psychological perceptions.Lars Lyberg was Head of the Research and Development Department at Statistics Sweden and professor at Stockholm University. He was an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. In 2018, he received the AAPOR Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement.

• Preface Introduction to the Handbook of Computational Social ScienceUwe Engel, Anabel Quan-Haase, Sunny Xun Liu and Lars LybergSection I. The Scope and Boundaries of CSS The Scope of Computational Social ScienceClaudio Cioffi-Revilla Analytical Sociology amidst a Computational Social Science RevolutionBenjamin F. Jarvis, Marc Keuschnigg and Peter Hedström Computational Cognitive Modeling in the Social SciencesHolger Schultheis Computational Communication Science: Lessons from Working Group Sessions with Experts of an Emerging Research FieldStephanie Geise and Annie Waldherr A Changing Survey LandscapeLars Lyberg and Steven G. Heeringa Digital Trace Data: Modes of Data Collection, Applications, and Errors at a GlanceFlorian Keusch and Frauke Kreuter Open Computational Social ScienceJan G. Voelkel and Jeremy Freese Causal and Predictive Modeling in Computational Social ScienceUwe Engel Data-driven Agent-based Modeling in Computational Social ScienceJan LorenzSection II. Privacy, Ethics, and Politics in CSS Research Ethics and Privacy in Computational Social Science: A Call for PedagogyWilliam Hollingshead, Anabel Quan-Haase and Wenhong Chen Deliberating with the Public: An Agenda to Include Stakeholder Input on Municipal "Big Data" ProjectsJames Popham, Jennifer Lavoie, Andrea Corradi and Nicole Coomber Analysis of the Principled-AI Framework´s Constraints in Becoming a Methodological Reference for Trustworthy-AI DesignDaniel Varona and Juan Luis SuarezSection III. Case Studies and Research Examples Sensing Close-Range Proximity for Studying Face-to-Face InteractionJohann Schaible, Marcos Oliveira, Maria Zens and Mathieu Génois Social Media Data in Affective ScienceMax Pellert, Simon Schweighofer and David Garcia Understanding Political Sentiment: Using Twitter to Map the US 2016 Democratic PrimariesNiklas M Loynes and Mark J Elliot The Social Influence of Bots and Trolls in Social MediaYimin Chen Social Bots and Social Media Manipulation in 2020: The Year in ReviewHo-Chun Herbert Chang, Emily Chen, Meiqing Zhang, Goran Muric, and Emilio Ferrara A Picture is (still) Worth a Thousand Words: The Impact of Appearance and Characteristic Narratives on People’s Perceptions of Social RobotsSunny Xun Liu, Elizabeth Arredondo, Hannah Miezkowski, Jeff Hancock and Byron Reeves Data Quality and Privacy Concerns in Digital Trace Data: Insights from a Delphi Study on Machine Learning and Robots in Human LifeUwe Engel and Lena Dahlhaus Effective Fight Against Extremist Discourse On-Line: The Case of ISIS’s PropagandaSéraphin Alava and Rasha Nagem Public Opinion Formation on the Far RightMichael Adelmund and Uwe Engel

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