ESC and ESA conference call for papers!

The ESC working group on “Quantitative Methods in Criminology” (EQMC) and the ESA Research Network on “Quantitative Methods” (ESA RN21) welcome abstract submissions for presentations at the conference  Modes, Measurement, Modelling: Achieving Equivalence in Quantitative Research  in Mannheim, Germany, 24.-25 October 2014, hosted by Gesis – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. The conference fee is 30 € for non-members and 20 € for ESA RN21/ EQMC members.

The ESC working group on “Quantitative Methods in Criminology” (EQMC) and the ESA Research Network on “Quantitative Methods” (ESA RN21) welcome abstract submissions for presentations at the conference

 

Modes, Measurement, Modelling: Achieving Equivalence in Quantitative Research

 

 in Mannheim, Germany, 24.-25 October 2014, hosted by Gesis – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. The conference fee is 30 € for non-members and 20 € for ESA RN21/ EQMC members.

 

 Please seehttp://www.gesis.org/qm2014 for more information on the conference and for a more detailed description of the sessions.

 We encourage submissions to the session"Web data collection: Measuring comparability and equivalence”.

Session organizers – Inna F. Deviatko, Aigul Mavletova (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)

The session aims at presenting current debates and advancements in assessment of different types of equivalence and varying meanings of comparability in quantitative sociological research conducted online. The session offers the opportunity to discuss current approaches to investigating comparability and equivalence of different online measurement techniques, sampling methods, and online surveys completed on different devices (PC, mobile phones, and tablets). Besides exploring fast growing evidence pro and contra comparability and equivalence of online and offline modes of data collection in surveys and experiments, the methodological issues of equivalence and comparability of other types of online and offline data such us personality inventories, time budget/travel diaries, etc. will be discussed. The contributions from researchers using such novel methods of comparative quantitative research as gathering sociologically relevant non-reactive Web data and digital footprints (including automatically captured Web traffic data and online social media data), which are focused on methodological problems of data collection, archiving and analysis, are also encouraged.

Please email your abstracts to the corresponding session organizer Inna F. Deviatko (deviatko@aha.ru) as well as cc to henning.best@gesis.org by 15 August 2014 at the latest. Proposals should contain a title and an abstract of up to 200 words. You will be informed by August 31 regarding acceptance of the paper.

Midterm Conference RN21 2014 - Call for Papers.pdf