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Abstract The digital transformation of social life should be accompanied by new forms of social enquiry. In particular, the digital would make possible new forms of understanding sociality that arise from the complex interactions between digital technology, social research and social life. It invades the micro, meso and macro areas and aspects of social life (citizenship, identity, gender and sexuality, power relations, inequalities, social networks social structures and institutions, politics and economics, to name but a few) and generates new practices, socialisation processes, ties and relationships, re-distributing power among institutional actors. Apart from skepticism or enthusiasm, the paper investigates the distinctive topics of digital social research, the nature of digital data, and the place for technological objects (devices, technology, robots, AI, algorithms, etc.), the digital biases (e.g. digital social desirability, digital discriminations, etc;), the methodological challenges and opportunities deriving from acquiring records of computer-mediated social interactions being them self-report on individual’s social network or digital traces left by individual’s online activities and the methodological principles which are not easily dismissed by the new availability of data. Author Biographies Angela Delli Paoli, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy Department of Humanities, Philosophy and Education Giuseppe Masullo, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy Department of Humanities, Philosophy and Education Downloads PDF Published 11.07.2022 How to Cite Delli Paoli, A., & Masullo, G. (2022). Digital Social Research: Topics and Methods. Italian Sociological Review, 12(7S), 617. https://doi.org/10.13136/isr.v12i7S.573 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Issue Vol. 12 No. 7S (2022) Section Articles License (APC) Article and submissions processing charges ISR does not ask for articles and submissions processing charges APC

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