The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning

About the Editors Contributors Part I: Introduction: The Past, Present, and Future of Machine Learning in Sociology 1. Sociology and Machine Learning Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra and Christian Borch 2. Machine Learning in Sociology: Current and Future Applications Filiz Garip and Michael W. Macy 3. How Machine Learning Became Pervasive Emilio Lehoucq Part II: Machine Learning as a Methodological Toolbox 4. Corpus Modeling and the Geometries of Text: Meaning Spaces as Metaphor and Method Dustin S. Stoltz, Marissa A. Combs, and Marshall A. Taylor 5. Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Machine Learning with Textual Data AJ Alvero 6. Chinese Computational Sociology: Decolonial Applications of Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing Methods in Chinese-Language Contexts Linda Hong Cheng and Yao Lu 7. Hate Speech Detection and Bias in Supervised Text Classification Thomas R. Davidson 8. Analyzing Image Data with Machine Learning Han Zhang 9. Sociogeographical Machine Learning: Using Machine Learning to Understand the Social Mechanisms of Place Rolf Lyneborg Lund 10. The Machine Learning of Sound and Music in Sociological Research Ke Nie 11. Munging the Ghosts in the Machine: Coded Bias and the Craft of Wrangling Archival Data Vincent Yung and Jeannette A. Colyvas 12. Fitting Paradox: Machine Learning Algorithms vs Statistical Modeling Eun Kyong Shin 13. Predictability Hypotheses: A Meta-Theoretical and Methodological Introduction Austin van Loon 14. Ethnography and Machine Learning: Synergies and New Directions Zhuofan Li and Corey M. Abramson 15. Machine Learning, Abduction, and Computational Ethnography Philipp Brandt Part III: Societal Machine Learning Applications 16. Machine Learning, Infrastructures, and their Sociomaterial Possibilities Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra 17. Race and Intersecting Inequalities in Machine Learning Sharla Alegria 18. Gender, Sex, and the Constraints of Machine Learning Methods Jeffrey W. Lockhart 19. Facial Recognition in Law Enforcement Jens Hälterlein 20. Machine Learning in Chinese courts Nyu Wang and Michael Yuan Tian 21. A Tale of Two Social Credit Systems: The Succeeded and Failed Adoption of Machine Learning in Sociotechnical Infrastructures Chuncheng Liu 22. Machine Learning as a State Building Experiment: AI and Development in Africa Yousif Hassan 23. The Use and Promises of Machine Learning in Financial Markets: From Mundane Practices to Complex Automated Systems Taylor Spears and Kristian Bondo Hansen 24. Machine Learning and Large-scale Data for Understanding Urban Inequality Jennifer Candipan and Jonathan Tollefson 25. Epistemic Infrastructures of Moral Decision-Making in the Ethics of Autonomous Driving Maya Indira Ganesh 26. Machine Learning in Medical Systems: Toward a Sociological Agenda Wanheng Hu 27. Machine Learning in the Arts and Cultural and Creative Industries Mariya Dzhimova 28. Environment, Society, and Machine Learning Caleb Scoville, Hilary Faxon, Melissa Chapman, Samantha Jo Fried, Lily Xu, Carl Boettiger, J. Michael Reed, Marcus Lapeyrolerie, Amy Van Scoyoc, Razvan Amironesei 29. Coding and Expertise Alex Preda Part IV: Machine Learning and Sociological Theory 30. How Machine Learning is Reviving Sociological Theorization Laura K. Nelson and Jessica J. Santana 31. Quality Control for Quality Computational Concepts: Wrangling with Theory and Data Wrangling as Theorizing Vincent Yung, Jeannette A. Colyvas, and Hokyu Hwang 32. Machine Agencies: Large Language Models as a Case for a Sociology of Machines Ceyda Yolgörmez 33. Meaning and Machines Oscar Stuhler, Dustin S. Stoltz, and John Levi Martin 34. Machine Learning and the Analysis of Culture Sophie Mützel and Étienne Ollion 35. Estimating Social Influence Using Machine Learning and Digital Trace Data Martin Arvidsson and Marc Keuschnigg 36. Computational Authority in Platform Society: Dimensions of Power in Machine Learning Massimo Airoldi 37. Predictive Analytics: A Sociological Perspective Simon Egbert 38. Theoretical Challenges of Human-Machine Interaction Towards a Sociology of Interfaces Benjamin Lipp and Henning Mayer 39. Colonialities of Machine Learning Christian Borch