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Dr James Allen-Robertson

Senior Lecturer
Department of Sociology and Criminology
Dr James Allen-Robertson
  • Email

  • Telephone

    +44 (0) 1206 872273

  • Location

    6.330, Colchester Campus

  • Academic support hours

    See Moodle for Details

Biography

Digital Sociologist and Computational Social Scientist interested in the relationship between humans and technology, radical online cultures, and in the development of new digital methods using data science. Designer and convenor of our BSc Sociology with Data Science, I teach sociologists how to program for research and social good. I am also the author of Sage Campus' course on 'Collecting Social Media Data' and frequently run workshops on Web Scraping for Social Research. I collaborate with a host of great academics, and have published on topics such as the history of digital piracy, the visual sociology of environmental protest online, the materiality of digital media and medical misinformation. In many of these collaborations I generate and work with large scale datasets deploying network analysis, text analysis , data visualisation and machine learning. My current substantive projects are mapping and studying radical far-right tech cultures; unearthing global trends in human rights violations using network analysis; and using text mining to explore tech industry responses to surveillance policy.

Qualifications

  • BA Sociology (2007)

  • MA Social Research Methods (2008)

  • PhD - Digital Culture Industry (2011)