Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has launched SAGE Ocean to support researchers develop new computational social science skills and access and work with data at a scale previously unimaginable.
The rise of vast data sets and the emergence of new technologies is changing social science research. Alongside SAGE's existing publishing outputs of books, journals and online products, SAGE Ocean will provide new types of resources for social scientists to promote methodological innovations, as well as practical tools and products for a new era of social science research. SAGE Ocean will partner with leading academics across disciplines to help tell their stories and to cultivate new ideas, alongside encouraging new interdisciplinary collaborations through community engagement such as events and blogs.
SAGE Ocean will also offer investment and business support for commercial start-ups and later-stage companies that are focused on improving computational social research. Through its annual Concept
Grants program, it will provide seed funding of up to $35,000 for early stage software ideas that support social researchers to work with big data and new technologies.
The SAGE Ocean initiative was officially launched at the first ever Social Science Foo Camp on 2-4 February 2018 held at Facebook HQ in Menlo Park, CA. Co-hosted by SAGE Publishing, O'Reilly Media and Facebook, Social Science Foo Camp gathered together around 250 of the world's leading social scientists, technologists, businesspeople and policy makers with the aim to get ideas flowing across traditional boundaries of discipline and profession, and to help shape perspectives and priorities that propel us to a better future.
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