Rogers, Richard,

Doing digital methods / Richard Rogers. - 2nd edition. - xxv, 316 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm

First published 2019

Includes bibliographical references and index

Preface: Before beginning digital methods
Part I: Beginning digital methods
Positioning digital methods
Starting with query design
Preparing for critical social media research
Part II: Doing digital methods
Website history: Screencast documentaries with the Internet Archive
Google critique: Auditing search engines
Search as research: Repurposing Google
Cultural points of view: Comparing Wikipedia language versions
YouTube teardown: Deconstructing recommendations
Platform and Facebook studies: Identifying engaging content
X/Twitter as story-telling machine: Following events
Visual media analysis for Instagram and other online platforms: Metapicturing
Cross-platform analysis: Co-linked, inter-linked and cross-hashtagged content
TikTok as memetic infrastructure: Studying imitation
Tracker analysis: Detection techniques for data journalism in research
Summarizing digital methods


"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"--

College of Education All programs


In English

9781529764321

2023938593


Internet--Social aspects.
Internet research.
Internet searching.
Social media --Research.
World Wide Web --Research.

004.6780721 R63 / 2024