Doing Digital Methods

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).

• Part I: Beginning Digital MethodsChapter 1: Positioning digital methodsChapter 2: Starting with query designChapter 3: Preparing for critical social media researchPart II: Doing Digital MethodsChapter4: Website history: Screencast documentaries with the Internet ArchiveChapter 5: Google critique: Auditing search enginesChapter 6: Search as research: Repurposing GoogleChapter 7: Cultural points of view: Comparing Wikipedia language versionsChapter 8: YouTube teardown: Deconstructing recommendationsChapter 9: Platform and Facebook studies: Identifying engaging contentChapter 10: Twitter as story-telling machine: Following eventsChapter 11: Visual media analysis for Instagram and other online platformsChapter 12: Cross-platform analysis: Co-linked, inter-liked and cross-hashtagged contentChapter 13: TikTok as mimetic infrastructure: Studying imitationChapter 14: Tracker analysis: Detection techniques for data journalism researchChapter 15: Summarizing digital methods

Digital Methods enabled a wave of research in the cultural dynamics of contemporary network society. With this new edition, Richard Rogers brings Digital Methods to the new emerging platforms that are reshaping our digital lives. With multiple platform-specific cases and examples, ‘Doing Digital Methods’ remains a fundamental resource for both practitioners and students.