Richard Rogers 
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 Tik Tok, Instagram, Twitter and more,  


• Exploration of Google critique and algorithmic auditing,


• Examination of You Tube′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.

Tabla de materias

Part I: Beginning Digital Methods

Chapter 1: Positioning digital methods

Chapter 2: Starting with query design

Chapter 3: Preparing for critical social media research

Part II: Doing Digital Methods

Chapter4: Website history: Screencast documentaries with the Internet Archive

Chapter 5: Google critique: Auditing search engines

Chapter 6: Search as research: Repurposing Google

Chapter 7: Cultural points of view: Comparing Wikipedia language versions

Chapter 8: You Tube teardown: Deconstructing recommendations

Chapter 9: Platform and Facebook studies: Identifying engaging content

Chapter 10: Twitter as story-telling machine: Following events

Chapter 11: Visual media analysis for Instagram and other online platforms

Chapter 12: Cross-platform analysis: Co-linked, inter-liked and cross-hashtagged content

Chapter 13: Tik Tok as mimetic infrastructure: Studying imitation

Chapter 14: Tracker analysis: Detection techniques for data journalism research

Chapter 15: Summarizing digital methods

Sobre el autor

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).