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David Tindall
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Latest papers
A manifesto for computational sociology: The Canadian perspective.
Canadian review of sociology = Revue canadienne de sociologie · 2022 · senior author
Big data, computational social science, and other recent innovations in social network analysis.
Canadian review of sociology = Revue canadienne de sociologie · 2022 · first author
Latest funding
- $63,832
Disinformation, Democracy, and Online Political Deliberation
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
- $155,171
Disinformation, Democracy, and Online Political Deliberation
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
- $282,672
Making sense of climate action: understanding social mobilization to curb anthropogenic climate change through advances in social network analysis
SSHRC · 2017 · Principal investigator
2 publications.
A manifesto for computational sociology: The Canadian perspective.
Fu Q, Gu J, Zeng ZA, Tindall D
Big data, computational social science, and other recent innovations in social network analysis.
Tindall D, McLevey J, Koop-Monteiro Y, Graham A
Disinformation, Democracy, and Online Political Deliberation
Principal investigators: McLevey, John V.P.
Keywords: disinformation; misinformation; democracy; social media; social networks; digital; deliberation; civic infrastructure
Disinformation, Democracy, and Online Political Deliberation
Principal investigators: McLevey, John V.P.
Keywords: disinformation; misinformation; democracy; social media; social networks; digital; deliberation; civic infrastructure
Making sense of climate action: understanding social mobilization to curb anthropogenic climate change through advances in social network analysis
Principal investigators: Tindall, David B.
Keywords: climate action; social movements; social networks; social media; twitter; environmental sociology; environmental movement
Canadian news media and climate change discourse networks, 1997-2010
Principal investigators: Stoddart, Mark C.J.
Keywords: environment and society; climate change; mass media; social movements
Social networks and climate change discourse, and the role of environmental movements in climate change policy networks: an international comparison
Principal investigators: Tindall, David B.
Keywords: environmental sociology; social networks; social movements; climate change
Social movements and social network dynamics: a two-mode organizational network approach
Principal investigators: Tindall, David B.
Keywords: social networks; social movements; longitudinal design; social influence; social selection; environmental movement
Climate justice paths to an equitable and sustainable BC economy
Keywords: climate change; inequality; urban planning; carbon pricing; environmental justice; mitigation; adaptation; labour market
Understanding perspectives and resolving conflicts over the ethical treatment of food animals
Principal investigators: Fraser, David
Keywords: animal welfare; ethics; attitudes; values; decision-making; qualitative methods; quantitative methods; animal agriculture; governance; policy
Understanding the social structural basis of environmental activism and pro-environmental behaviour: regional, temporal, and sectoral comparisons
Principal investigators: Tindall, David B.
Keywords: social movements; social networks; environmental movement; environmental values; pro-environmental behaviour; environmental activism; environmental sociology
Linking framing and social network analysis in social movements research: a mixed methods approach
Principal investigators: Tindall, David B.
Keywords: social movements; social networks; environmental movement; environmental values; environmental sociology; frame analysis; mass media; mixed methods
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Qiang Fu and David Tindall: 1 shared paper
- David Tindall and John McLevey: 1 shared paper
- Department of Sociology
- Social Structure
- School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
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