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).
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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
An essential read for students and scholars keen to learn the techniques of digital methods, while retaining strong emphasis on methodological reflection, critical assessment of ontological and epistemological implications of tools and data, the book is comprehensive and exemplary in its approach and guidance on doing digital methods research. -- Stine Lomborg * European Journal of Communication *