INTRODUCTION

During the last 30 years, most countries around the world have experienced rapid digitization in almost every aspect of society and daily life. This holds, for instance, as much true for communication behaviour (e.g. using messenger services and video chat) as for news consumption (e.g. online newspapers and social networking sites) and the way we keep ourselves entertained (e.g. streaming music and video content or reading the latest eBook). The number of appliances that are becoming “smart” increases steadily, and a multitude of sensors has become daily companions of many people, be they incorporated in phones, wristwatches or fitness gadgets. An ever-growing amount of data is continuously generated by and collected through all of the aforementioned. The potential this digitization and big data hold for research in many fields and the multitude of challenges associated with their scientific use have become focal points of inquiry and discussion. In migration research, this is not only visible in the increasing occurrence of dedicated conference sessions, workshops and summer schools but also in the growing number of corresponding methods-oriented publications (e.g. McAuliffe, 2021; Pötzschke & Rinken, forthcoming; Sandberg et al., 2022; Tjaden, 2021).

中文翻译：

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用创新改善既有的：社交网站作为移民调查中的招聘工具的使用

介绍

在过去的 30 年中，世界上大多数国家在社会和日常生活的几乎各个方面都经历了快速的数字化。例如，这对于交流行为（例如使用信使服务和视频聊天）、新闻消费（例如在线报纸和社交网站）以及我们保持娱乐的方式（例如流媒体音乐和视频内容或阅读）同样适用最新的电子书）。越来越“智能”的电器数量稳步增加，大量传感器已成为许多人的日常伴侣，无论是手机、手表还是健身设备。越来越多的数据是由上述所有内容不断生成和收集的。这种数字化和大数据在许多领域的研究潜力以及与其科学使用相关的众多挑战已成为调查和讨论的焦点。在移民研究中，这不仅体现在越来越多的专门会议、研讨会和暑期学校，还体现在越来越多的相应方法导向的出版物中（例如 McAuliffe，2021 ; Pötzschke & Rinken，即将出版；桑德伯格等人，2022；贾登，2021 年）。