1 option
Doing digital methods / Richard Rogers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rogers, Richard, 1965- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Internet research.
- Internet searching.
- World Wide Web--Research.
- World Wide Web.
- Social media--Research.
- Social media.
- Internet--Social aspects.
- Internet.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 316 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- 2nd edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Thousand Oaks, California : Sage, [2024]
- Summary:
- "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." -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- First published 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-308) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781529764338
- 1529764335
- 9781529764321
- 1529764327
- OCLC:
- 1390189642
- Publisher Number:
- 90100981504
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.