Doing Digital Methods
eBook - ePub

Doing Digital Methods

  1. 344 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Doing Digital Methods

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. About the author
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Preface Before beginning digital methods
  9. PART I Beginning Digital Methods
  10. ONE Positioning digital methods
  11. TWO Starting with query design
  12. THREE Preparing for critical social media research
  13. PART II Doing Digital Methods
  14. FOUR Website history Screencast documentaries with the Internet Archive
  15. FIVE Google critique Auditing search engines
  16. SIX Search as research Repurposing Google
  17. SEVEN Cultural points of view Comparing Wikipedia language versions
  18. EIGHT YouTube teardown Deconstructing recommendations
  19. NINE Platform and Facebook studies Identifying engaging content
  20. TEN X/Twitter as story-telling machine Following events
  21. ELEVEN Visual media analysis for Instagram and other online platforms Metapicturing
  22. TWELVE Cross-platform analysis Co-linked, inter-liked and cross-hashtagged content
  23. THIRTEEN TikTok as memetic infrastructure Studying imitation
  24. FOURTEEN Tracker analysis Detection techniques for data journalism research
  25. FIFTEEN Summarizing digital methods An approach to the study of online data
  26. References
  27. Index