Laboratory

Digital and Computational Demography

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

Evaluating Immigrants’ Cultural Assimilation Using Digital Trace Data

André Grow, Emilio Zagheni; in Collaboration with René Flores D. (University of Chicago, USA), Kiran Garimella (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA), Antoine Dubois (Aalto University, Espoo, Finland), Ian B. Stewart (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA), Ingmar Weber (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Doha, Qatar)

Cultural assimilation of immigrants is poorly understood, partially because appropriate data is missing. We use digital trace data and a novel intergenerational survey with respondents selectively recruited via Facebook advertisements to shed new light on patterns of cultural assimilation.  Detailed Description

Publications

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Aref, S.; Gil-Clavel, B. S.; Grow, A.; Negraia, D. V.; Zagheni, E.:

Demography in the digital era: new data sources for population research

In: Smart statistics for smart applications : book of short papers SIS2019, 23–30. Pearson. (2019)    

Stewart, I. B.; Flores, R. D.; Riffe, T.; Weber, I.; Zagheni, E.:

Rock, rap, or reggaeton?: assessing Mexican immigrants' cultural assimilation using Facebook data

In: Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference WWW 2019: May 13-17, 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA, 3258–3264. New York: ACM. (2019)