Title:
Doing digital methods
Author:
Rogers, Richard, 1965- author.
ISBN:
9781526444721
9781526444714
9781526487971
9781526487995
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
xviii, 308 pages : color illustrations, maps (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Contents:
Preface. Before beginning digital methods -- Positioning digital methods -- Starting with query design -- Issuecrawling : mapping networks on the web -- URL fetching : Internet censorship research -- Website history : screencast documentaries with the Internet Archive -- Search as research : repurposing Google -- Cultural points of view : comparing Wikipedia langauge versions -- Platform studies : Twitter as story-telling machine -- Memes or virals : identifying engaging content on Facebook -- Cross-platform analysis : co-linked, inter-liked and cross-hashtagged content -- Tracker analysis : detection techniques for data journalism research -- YouTube teardown -- Summarizing digital methods.
Abstract:
"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, author Richard Rogers teaches readers 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"--Publisher's description.
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