It is the season finale and Emese Domahidi (TU Ilmenau) and Mario Haim (LMU Munich) reflect on what it is about computational communication science. We start by briefly looking back at the previous twelve episodes to characterize the ongoing endeavors and challenges of CCS before spending the larger part of this episode on discussing CCS' coming of age. We use some sports metaphors to depict the establishment of collaborations, of professional norms and values, and of to-be-built research infrastructure. And we discuss whether CCS is just tool or its own field, what a field actually is, and how this and we relate to the (post-?)discipline of communication science.
Ultimately, we peak at a special methods series that we plan for this podcast. And we very kindly ask you to tell us who you really are and where you are at. For this, we have prepared a very short questionnaire that we would love you to fill out (until October 2022):
>> https://www.soscisurvey.de/ccs-pod/
References
Fuchs, C., & Qiu, J.L. (2018). Ferments in the field: Introductory reflections on the past, present and future of communication studies. Journal of Communication, 68(2), 219-232. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqy008
van Atteveldt, W., & Peng, T.-Q. (2018). When communication meets computation: Opportunities, challenges, and pitfalls in computational communication science. Communication Methods and Measures, 12(2–3), 81–92. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2018.1458084
Waisbord, S. (2019). Communication: A post-discipline. Polity.
