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Doing Digital Methods Paperback with Interactive eBook


Doing Digital Methods Paperback with Interactive eBook

by Rogers, Richard

Doing Digital Methods Paperback with Interactive eBook

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ISBN:
9781526487995
Publication Date:
16 May 2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Sage Publications Ltd
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 2 May 2024
Doing Digital Methods Paperback with Interactive eBook

Description

Get 12 months FREE access to the Digital Methods Manual (the abridged, interactive eBook that provides handy step-by-step guidance to your phone, tablet, laptop or reading device) when purchasing ISBN: 9781526487995 Paperback and & Interactive eBook*. The Digital Methods Manual will be live from September 2019. 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 Designed with a suite of video tutorials and online tools as well as the Digital Methods Manual Interactive eBook, this is the guide to doing digital methods you have been waiting for. *Interactivity only available through Vitalsource eBook included as part of paperback and interactive eBook product. Access not guaranteed on second-hand copies (as access code may have previously been redeemed).

Contents

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

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