Introduzione

[Autom. eng. transl.] The relationship between sociology and technology is an emerging theme for our discipline which is called to question itself on an epistemological and methodological level in order to adapt traditional methods to information platforms and, at the same time, identify innovative techniques capable of analyzing new types of data. Some authors have talked about a social life of digital methods (social life of digital methods), referring to the process by which e-methods are at the same time modeled by the world, and agents that shape the world. What appears certain, in any case, is that the Internet has now become a (non) place in which many research desires can find space and be satisfied. And that perhaps this contamination between academic and "popular" research can serve to give the necessary shock to a discipline that appears to be crystallized, even in the recent academic debate, post-national scientific qualification, to an obsolete dualism between approaches only instrumentally made contrasting . Vice versa, the new methodological debate that this new possibility of doing online social research requires, can be used to reopen the terms of discussion, focusing in particular on the need to give a statute to the methodological approaches from scratch (different from those previously used onfield and adapted to the Net).