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.