Use of New Technologies in Contemporary Social Issues [Seminar]

The course aims to enable students to:
✓ Understand the fundamental concepts and principles of Artificial Intelligence
and its main subfields related to social
research (e.g., machine learning, natural language processing, analytics)
networks).
✓ Recognize and evaluate the potential for applying AI in
various stages of the research process in the social sciences,
from research design and data collection to
analysis and interpretation of the findings.
✓ Become familiar with specific AI tools and techniques that can
be used for the analysis of quantitative and qualitative social
data (e.g., big data analysis, data mining)
emotion, modeling issues).
✓ Develop a critical understanding of methodological, social and
ethical challenges that accompany the use of AI in social
research, including issues such as bias of
algorithms, privacy, transparency and accountability.
✓ They are able to design and evaluate research proposals that
incorporate appropriate AI methods and tools to approach
social questions.
✓ Prepare for future developments at the intersection of AI and
of social sciences, promoting responsible and innovative
use of technology in research.