Ask: Research and Methods is an open access, peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the methodology of social science research. It is co-published by the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Ohio State University Libraries. Since 1995 its mission has been to share innovative work in the social sciences focusing on methodological issues inherent to all phases of social research.

The third ESA Mid-term conference in Cracow aimed at an overview of the potentials of quantitative research as well as a critical assessment of its technical, epistemological, and ethical boundaries. It was dedicated to discuss the spread of new technologies and it’s positive and negative consequences for quantitative studies. Another challenge is to think more profoundly about the technical, ethical, and epistemological limits of quantitative methodological approach

ASK welcomes articles related to methodological topics discussed during 3-rd Mid-term ESA conference, such as (but not limited to):

• mobile communication as a device for data-gathering;
• theoretical and methodological approaches of mixed-methods research;
• defining new units of analysis beyond “methodological nationalism”;
• ethical questions of new methods of data-gathering;
• reviving traditional methods.

Prospective contributors should submit original manuscripts, along with a cover letter and cover page including a short biography no later than March 30^th 2019