Doing Digital Methods

Cutting edge guide to applying the latest advancements in digital methods to social research.

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.

  Autorentext

  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).

  Inhalt

  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