Richard Rogers

Doing Digital Methods

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From building a URL list to discover internet censorship to making Twitter API outputs tell stories, Ã Â Doing Digital Methods teaches the reader how to use digital devices, search engines and social media platforms to study some of the most urgent social issues of our time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 199mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 874g
• ISBN-13: 9781526444714
• ISBN-10: 1526444712
• Artikelnr.: 54843390

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