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Digital Methods: A Short Introduction (ePub eBook)

eBook by Venturini, Tommaso/Rogers, Richard

Digital Methods: A Short Introduction (ePub eBook)

£15.99

ISBN:
9781509562602
Publication Date:
04 Sep 2025
Publisher:
Polity Press EPUB
Imprint:
Polity
Pages:
224 pages
Format:
eBook
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Digital Methods: A Short Introduction (ePub eBook)

Description

Tommaso Venturini and Richard Rogers offer a critical and conceptual introduction to digital methods. In a direct and accessible way, the authors provide hands-on advice to equip readers with the knowledge they need to understand which digital methods are best suited to their research goals and how to use them.aCutting through theoretical and technical complications, they focusaon the different practices associated with digital methods to skillfully provide a quick-start guide to the art of querying, prompting, API calling, scraping, mining, wrangling, visualizing, crawling,aplottinganetworks, and scripting. While embracing the capacity of digital methods to rekindle sociological imagination, this book also delves into their limits and biases and reveals the hard labor of digital fieldwork. The book also touches upon the epistemic and political consequences of these methods, but with the purpose of providing practical advice for their usage. Digital Methodsais a must-read for students and scholars of digital social research, media studies, critical data studies,adigital humanities, computational social sciences, and for those who are interested in digital methods but do not know where to start.

Contents

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Sourcing Digital Inquiries 3. Querying and Triangulating 4. Prompting AI 5. Calling Platform APIs 6. Scraping Documents and Interfaces 7. Wrangling Digital Records 8. Mining Texts 9. Exploring through Visualizations 10. Crawling Connections 11. Analyzing Relational Landscapes 12. Tinkering with Scripts and Libraries 13. Conclusion Glossary References Index

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