To be fair, it’s not like the traditional academic social sciences need much excuse to chase fashions as it is. If anything, that very tendency might be what ge

To be fair, it’s not like the traditional academic social sciences need much excuse to chase fashions as it is. If anything, that very tendency might be what gets computational social science’s foot in the door. “Hey, we’re the hot new thing!” (That they can leverage the ML/AI hype to generate grants will be the main thing, of course, that secures their place.)