Doing Digital Methods

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.

Auteur

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).