Richard Rogers

Doing Digital Methods (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How do you use social media platforms, search engines, and other forms of digital media to explore the key issues of our time? With this second edition, learn how to use the latest advancements in digital methods to answer your pressing research questions.

The new edition includes:

• A new chapter on critical social media research,
• Tips for analysing content on TikTok, Instagram, Twitter and more,
• Exploration of Google critique and algorithmic auditing,
• Examination of YouTube's content removal politics and Facebook's 'fake news' problem.

Whether you are new to digital research or are exploring a new platform, this book equips you with tools to navigate the evolving digital landscape and conduct rigorous studies in the digital age.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529786156
• Artikelnr.: 68369707

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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