Dicuss Data Blog
Blog Post
Jul 08, 2026
Digital Forensic Process Tracing in the Age of AI: Challenges and Opportunities
Jakob Hauter, University of Reading
The increasing power and popularity of artificial intelligence (AI) has created new challenges for social scientists who work with data from online sources. In this blog post, I explain how researchers can respond to this challenge by using the social science method of process tracing for the qualitative analysis of online data.