Digital Methods
eBook - ePub

Digital Methods

A Short Introduction

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eBook - ePub

Digital Methods

A Short Introduction

About this book

Tommaso Venturini and Richard Rogers offer a critical and conceptual introduction to digital methods.

In a direct and accessible way, the authors provide hands-on advice to equip readers with the knowledge they need to understand which digital methods are best suited to their research goals and how to use them.Ā Cutting through theoretical and technical complications, they focusĀ on the different practices associated with digital methods to skillfully provide a quick-start guide to the art of querying, prompting, API calling, scraping, mining, wrangling, visualizing, crawling,Ā plottingĀ networks, and scripting. While embracing the capacity of digital methods to rekindle sociological imagination, this book also delves into their limits and biases and reveals the hard labor of digital fieldwork. The book also touches upon the epistemic and political consequences of these methods, but with the purpose of providing practical advice for their usage.

Digital MethodsĀ is a must-read for students and scholars of digital social research, media studies, critical data studies,Ā digital humanities, computational social sciences, and for those who are interested in digital methods but do not know where to start.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. 1. Introduction
  7. 2. Sourcing Digital Inquiries
  8. 3. Querying and Triangulating
  9. 4. Prompting AI
  10. 5. Calling Platform APIs
  11. 6. Scraping Documents and Interfaces
  12. 7. Wrangling Digital Records
  13. 8. Mining Texts
  14. 9. Exploring through Visualizations
  15. 10. Crawling Connections
  16. 11. Analyzing Relational Landscapes
  17. 12. Tinkering with Scripts and Libraries
  18. 13. Conclusion
  19. Glossary
  20. References
  21. Index
  22. End User License Agreement