Digital Footprints

The most diverse sciences have not been immune to the emergence and impact of the Internet and have included it as a topic of study on their research agendas. This is the concern that guides this collection, organized by professors Thiago Perez Bernardes de Moraes and Evelise Galv o de Carvalho, which offers the reader pertinent information and analysis on the development of the internet as a tool for large-scale social research. Readers will find here a unique collection that contains a wealth of analysis based on Google Trends. By monitoring this search engine, the articles deal with a wide range of topics with great scientific rigor: protests and police violence in Ukraine, "pro-white supremacist" ideology and hate crimes in the United States, and the relationship between personality traits and Google searches for terrorism, plastic surgery and anabolic steroids.