Zadorozhny, Vladimir and Turchin, Peter and Chrysanthis, Panos K and Manning, Patrick
(2017)
Towards Computational Social Sustainability.
In: German Historical Institute Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History: Creating Historical Knowledge Socially: New Approaches. Opportunities and Epistemological Implications of Undertaking Research with Citizen Scholars, 27 Oct 2017, Washington DC, USA.
Abstract
Why have recent years seen falling standards of living for large segments of people in the industrialized West? What role does growing economic inequalities in these countries play? What are the chances that rising instability will lead to open, possibly violent conflict? A new discipline of Computational Social Sustainability (CSS) addresses the challenge of proper assessment of such issues in order to trace the dynamics in key social factors and to forecast how they are likely to play out in the coming years. This challenge requires complex and sophisticated analyses and may appear impossible at the scholarly level—given the incredible quantity and size of the humanities and social science data involved, the large number of variables, and the diversity of social well-being measures needed. However, new opportunities for interdisciplinary cooperation, backed by recent advances in data science methods and high performance computing, provide an opening toward resolution of this important issue that should not be passed up. The mission of Computational Social Sustainability is to improve people's lives in meaningful ways by establishing a new paradigm for forecasting, assessing, and preventing the triggers that diminish social well-being in societies at risk of falling into cycles of instability and conflict.
We will report on research of our CSS Group that explores advanced methods of data science to monitor prevailing trends in a comprehensive set of well-being indicators, importantly combining both micro- and macro-level dynamics in an integrated multi-dimensional system.
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German Historical Institute Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History: Creating Historical Knowledge Socially: New Approaches. Opportunities and Epistemological Implications of Undertaking Research with Citizen Scholars |
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German Historical Institute Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History: Creating Historical Knowledge Socially: New Approaches. Opportunities and Epistemological Implications of Undertaking Research with Citizen Scholars |
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27 Oct 2017 |
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School of Computing and Information > Information Science |
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