Doing Digital Methods

Richard Rogers

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Sage Publications Ltd
25 December 2023

Research methods: general; Social research & statistics

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.

By: Richard Rogers
Imprint: Sage Publications Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 189mm,
Weight: 840g
ISBN: 9781529764338
ISBN 10: 1529764335
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 25 December 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

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

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).

Reviews for Doing Digital Methods

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