Master of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies - Digital Social Science

University of North Texas

Digital communication technologies have revolutionized societies around the world and changed how we study social interactions. Data from digital technologies allow us to gain unprecedented insights into human behavior, social networks, and social inequalities. The Digital Social Science concentration provides advanced, interdisciplinary training in the social dimensions of digital technologies. These programs provide students with new perspectives and ways to study social trends and interactions using digital research tools such as web scraping, text mining, network analysis, and social simulations.Social data science gives researchers and students not only the opportunity to process and analyze large volumes of social data, but it also enables them to connect big data to human behavior, networking and the exchange of opinions and other significant patterns in modern everyday life.Expertise in social data science is now becoming in high demand in companies, organizations and public authorities seeking to get a better understanding of customer or user behaviors or in companies developing psychological diagnosis or screening tools, or making sociological and polyetiological analyses of voter behavior and trends etc.