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