Call for Papers
Special Issue of the Journal «Qogam jane Dauir 2026»
Social Research in the Digital Age: Trends and Challenges
The editorial board of the scholarly journal «Qogam jane Dauir» invites researchers, scholars, and practitioners to submit manuscripts for a special issue entitled “Social Research in the Digital Age: Trends and Challenges.”
This special issue focuses on the methodological transformations of sociological research in the context of digitalization. Rapid technological change, evolving communication practices, declining response rates, and increasing difficulties in reaching respondents are creating new challenges for sociological surveys and public opinion research worldwide. At the same time, the growing availability of digital data and new analytical tools opens new opportunities for expanding the methodological toolkit of the social sciences.
These developments raise important questions about the future of empirical social research: how data should be collected in increasingly fragmented communication environments; how representativeness and data quality can be maintained; and how traditional survey methods can be combined with digital and computational data sources. Addressing these issues is essential for ensuring the reliability, validity, and relevance of sociological research in the digital era.
The special issue aims to bring together theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions that critically examine emerging research practices and methodological innovations in contemporary social science.
We welcome submissions addressing, but not limited to, the following topics:
- methodological innovations in sociological surveys.
- Public opinion research in the digital age.
- Declining response rates and strategies to improve survey participation.
- Online surveys and digital data collection methods.
- Integration of survey data with digital trace data and big data.
- Mixed-methods and multimode research designs.
- Computational Social Science and new analytical tools.
- Sampling and representativeness in digital environments.
- Ethical issues and data governance in digital research.
All manuscripts will undergo a double-blind peer review process. Submissions may be made in Kazakh, Russian, or English and must follow the journal’s submission guidelines.
Submission deadline: 20-26 of April, 2026
Expected publication of the special issue: 1-2 of June, 2026
Manuscripts should be submitted to: https://journal-kogam.kisi.kz/index.php/kd/about/submissions
In the cover letter, it is necessary to indicate: “For the special issue on ‘Sociological Research in the Era of Digitalization: Trends and Challenges’.”
Guest Editor
Dr. Aigul Beimisheva
PhD in Sociology
Director, School of Arts and Social science Narxoz University, Kazakhstan
Dr. Beimisheva’s research focuses on social research methodology, public opinion studies, digital transformation of society, and the impact of disinformation on social processes in Central Asia. She has led several large-scale research projects on youth, media, and information ecosystems and actively works at the intersection of academic research and applied sociological analysis.
