Richard Rogers

Doing Digital Methods (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Get 12 months FREE access to the Digital Methods Manual (an abridged, interactive eBook that provides handy step-by-step guidance to your phone, tablet, laptop or reading device) when purchasing ISBN: 9781526487995 Paperback & Interactive eBook.

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526476067
• Artikelnr.: 55873639

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

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Part I: Beginning Digital Methods
Chapter 1: Positioning digital methods
Chapter 2: Starting with query design
Chapter 3: Preparing for critical social media research
Part II: Doing Digital Methods
Chapter4: Website history: Screencast documentaries with the Internet Archive
Chapter 5: Google critique: Auditing search engines
Chapter 6: Search as research: Repurposing Google
Chapter 7: Cultural points of view: Comparing Wikipedia language versions
Chapter 8: YouTube teardown: Deconstructing recommendations
Chapter 9: Platform and Facebook studies: Identifying engaging content
Chapter 10: Twitter as story-telling machine: Following events
Chapter 11: Visual media analysis for Instagram and other online platforms
Chapter 12: Cross-platform analysis: Co-linked, inter-liked and cross-hashtagged content
Chapter 13: TikTok as mimetic infrastructure: Studying imitation
Chapter 14: Tracker analysis: Detection techniques for data journalism research
Chapter 15: Summarizing digital methods

Rezensionen

Digital Methods enabled a wave of research in the cultural dynamics of contemporary network society. With this new edition, Richard Rogers brings Digital Methods to the new emerging platforms that are reshaping our digital lives. With multiple platform-specific cases and examples, Doing Digital Methods remains a fundamental resource for both practitioners and students.

Luca Rossi 20230927