The 2020 Summer Institute on Computational Social Science (SICSS) held June 22-26, 2020 featured a Panel Discussion on Digital and Computational Demography. Panelists included Nicolò Cavalli (SICSS-Duke 18, SICSS-Oxford 19), Ridhi Kashyap (SICSS-Princeton 17, SICSS-Oxford 19), and Francesco Rampazzo (SICSS-Duke 18). The panel presented a broad introduction to digital and computational approaches to demography. Next, panelists presented examples drawing on some of their own work of digital and computational approaches to demographic research in two areas: 1) migration and 2) digital inequality and its implications for demographic processes. Following these specific examples, the panel reflected on future directions for digital demography, both in the context of the promises and perils of this emerging area in demographic research, as well as in relation to its role within the broader computational social science community.
