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Digital Methods

Digital Methods

Rogers, Richard

Paperback

General ReferenceGeneral ComputersGeneral Science

ISBN10: 026252824X
ISBN13: 9780262528245
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Aug 21 2015
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.90 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
A proposal to repurpose Web-native techniques for use in social and cultural scholarly research.

In Digital Methods, Richard Rogers proposes a methodological outlook for social and cultural scholarly research on the Web that seeks to move Internet research beyond the study of online culture. It is not a toolkit for Internet research, or operating instructions for a software package; it deals with broader questions. How can we study social media to learn something about society rather than about social media use? Rogers proposes repurposing Web-native techniques for research into cultural change and societal conditions. We can learn to reapply such methods of the medium as crawling and crowd sourcing, PageRank and similar algorithms, tag clouds and other visualizations; we can learn how they handle hits, likes, tags, date stamps, and other Web-native objects. By thinking along with devices and the objects they handle, digital research methods can follow the evolving methods of the medium.

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