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Book SynopsisGet 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
Trade ReviewAn 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 *
Table of ContentsPreface: 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
