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Teaching the concrete methods needed to use digital devices, search engines and social media platforms to study some of the most urgent social issues of our time, this is the essential guide to the state of the art in researching the natively digital. With explanation of context and techniques and a rich set of case studies, Richard Rogers teaches you how to:

• Build a URL list to discover internet censorship
• Transform Google into a research machine to detect source bias
• Make Twitter API outputs comprehensible and tell stories
• Research Instagram to locate 'hashtag publics'
• Extract and fruitfully analyze Facebook posts, images and video
• And much, much more

About the Author
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).

Reviews
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 *



Book Information
ISBN 9781526444714
Author Richard Rogers
Format Hardback
Page Count 328
Imprint Sage Publications Ltd
Publisher Sage Publications Ltd
Weight(grams) 870g