Doing Digital Methods
1st Edition
Published on 30. March 2019
328 pages
978-1-5264-7606-7 (ISBN)
Description
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Teaching the concrete methods needed to use digital devices, search engines and social media platforms to study some of the most urgent social issues of our time, this is the essential guide to the state of the art in researching the natively digital. With explanation of context and techniques and a rich set of case studies, Richard Rogers teaches you how to:
Build a URL list to discover internet censorship
Transform Google into a research machine to detect source bias
Make Twitter API outputs comprehensible and tell stories
Research Instagram to locate 'hashtag publics'
Extract and fruitfully analyze Facebook posts, images and video
And much, much more
Teaching the concrete methods needed to use digital devices, search engines and social media platforms to study some of the most urgent social issues of our time, this is the essential guide to the state of the art in researching the natively digital. With explanation of context and techniques and a rich set of case studies, Richard Rogers teaches you how to:
Build a URL list to discover internet censorship
Transform Google into a research machine to detect source bias
Make Twitter API outputs comprehensible and tell stories
Research Instagram to locate 'hashtag publics'
Extract and fruitfully analyze Facebook posts, images and video
And much, much more
Reviews / Votes
An essential read for students and scholars keen to learn the techniques of digital methods, while retaining strong emphasis on methodological reflection, critical assessment of ontological and epistemological implications of tools and data, the book is comprehensive and exemplary in its approach and guidance on doing digital methods research. -- Stine Lomborg * European Journal of Communication *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-5264-7606-7 (9781526476067)
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Person
Richard Rogers is Professor of New Media & Digital Culture, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. He is Director of the Digital Methods Initiative, Amsterdam, known for the development of software tools for the study of online data. He is author of Information Politics on the Web and Digital Methods (both MIT Press) and editor of The Politics of Social Media Manipulation (with Sabine Niederer) and The Propagation of Misinformation in Social Media: A Cross-platform Analysis (both Amsterdam University Press).
Content
Preface: Before beginning digital methods
PART 1 BEGINNING DIGITAL METHODS
Chapter 1 Positioning digital methods
Chapter 2 Starting with query design
PART 2 DOING DIGITAL METHODS
Chapter 3 Issuecrawling: Mapping networks on the web
Chapter 4 URL fetching: Internet censorship research
Chapter 5 Website history: Screencast documentaries with the Internet Archive
Chapter 6 Search as research: Repurposing Google
Chapter 7 Cultural points of view: Comparing Wikipedia language versions
Chapter 8 Platform studies: Twitter as story-telling machine
Chapter 9 Memes or virals: Identifying engaging content on Facebook
Chapter 10 Cross-platform analysis: Co-linked, inter-liked and cross-hashtagged content
Chapter 11 Tracker analysis: Detection techniques for data journalism research
Chapter 12: Youtube teardown
Chapter 13 Summarizing digital methods
PART 1 BEGINNING DIGITAL METHODS
Chapter 1 Positioning digital methods
Chapter 2 Starting with query design
PART 2 DOING DIGITAL METHODS
Chapter 3 Issuecrawling: Mapping networks on the web
Chapter 4 URL fetching: Internet censorship research
Chapter 5 Website history: Screencast documentaries with the Internet Archive
Chapter 6 Search as research: Repurposing Google
Chapter 7 Cultural points of view: Comparing Wikipedia language versions
Chapter 8 Platform studies: Twitter as story-telling machine
Chapter 9 Memes or virals: Identifying engaging content on Facebook
Chapter 10 Cross-platform analysis: Co-linked, inter-liked and cross-hashtagged content
Chapter 11 Tracker analysis: Detection techniques for data journalism research
Chapter 12: Youtube teardown
Chapter 13 Summarizing digital methods
