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Manual para el uso de métodos digitales en proyectos de humanidades
GUMELAB (2024), 129 pp.
Cross-Plattform Social Media Forschung: Methoden der Datengewinnung und Analyse
Hamburg: Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (HAW);Leibniz Institut für Medienforschung;Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2024), 23 pp.
"Dieser Report bietet einen Überblick über die im NOTORIOUS Projekt entwickelten und angewandten Methoden und Strategien zur Erhebung und Analyse von Mehrplattform-Social-Media-Daten mit einem Schwerpunkt auf der Aufdeckung von Desinformationsnarrativen. Zur Datensammlung erwiesen sich explorative
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To Know is to Compare: Studying Social Media Across Nations, Media, and Platforms
Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2023), x, 212 pp.
"The authors argue that scholarship on social media has been limited by an over-reliance on single country studies that focus on one platform at a time, without considering the ties between platforms and other media. To overcome these limitations, the authors propose that social media are better und
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Mixing Methods: Practical Insights from the Humanities in the Digital Age
Bielefeld: Bielefeld University Press;transcript (2023), 270 pp.
"The digital transformation is accompanied by two simultaneous processes: digital humanities challenging the humanities, their theories, methodologies and disciplinary identities and pushing computer science to get involved in new fields. But how can qualitative and quantitative methods be usefully
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Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxviii, 280 pp.
"Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research addresses the need for a discipline-cum-methodology-tailored book that navigates the current research spectrum of communication and social media ("CommSocMed"). It examines contemporary and relevant issues that intertwine the exp
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Instant Messaging meets Diary Studies: Employing WhatsApp in Audio Diary Research with Female Journalists in Burkina Faso
ZQF Zeitschrift für qualitative Forschung, volume 24, issue 1 (2023), pp. 139-155
"This paper discusses the challenges and opportunities of using instant messaging (IM) technologies for diary studies. The discussion shows that IM as well as diary methods are both highly adaptable and flexible tools for qualitative data collection. In combination, they allow for innovative designs
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Digital platforms as socio-cultural artifacts: Developing digital methods for cultural research
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 9 (2023), pp. 1733-1755
"Social media platforms are increasingly looked at as means to investigate social phenomena like collective events, issues or causes. Digital methods – techniques exclusively focused on online data and shaped by the environment hosting these data – have become part and parcel of these investigat
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Methods in Practice: Studying Children and Youth Online
University of Tampere (2022), 59 pp.
"This publication is about actual cases of making the research on digital cultures of children and young which can be of help in the methodological sense. Hopefully, the cases as reflective narratives of already implemented studies, can help the reader to avoid pitfalls on the way of studying childr
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Controversy Mapping: A Field Guide
Cambridge, UK; Medford, MA: Polity Press (2022), xx, 334 pp.
"Controversy Mapping is the first book to introduce readers to the observation and representation of contested issues on digital media. Drawing on actor-network theory and digital methods, Venturini and Munk outline the conceptual underpinnings and the many tools and techniques of controversy mappin
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Data for Development: Harnessing Digital Media Intelligence
London: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (2022), 4 pp.
"Internet access is exploding around the world. In the 10 years up to 2021, the proportion of people around the world with access to the internet grew from 33 to 63%, and by 2022 the number of active social media users hit 4.62 billion. Policymakers and opinion formers have an opportunity to tap int
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The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xxiv, 612 pp.
"This open access handbook presents a multidisciplinary and multifaceted perspective on how the 'digital' is simultaneously changing Russia and the research methods scholars use to study Russia. It provides a critical update on how Russian society, politics, economy, and culture are reconfigured in
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DPPD Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide for Development Practitioners to Apply the Data Powered Positive Deviance Method
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2021), 138 pp.
"Positive Deviance (PD) is based on the observation that in every community or organization, there are a few individuals who achieve significantly better outcomes than their peers, despite having similar challenges and resources. These individuals are referred to as positive deviants, and adopting t
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A Handbook of Media and Communication Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies
London; New York: Routledge, 3rd ed. (2021), xiii, 512 pp.
"Thoroughly revised and updated, this third edition integrates perspectives from the social sciences and the humanities, focusing on methodology as a strategic level of analysis that joins practical applications with theoretical issues. The Handbook comprises three main elements: historical accounts
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Netnography: The Essential Guide to Qualitative Social Media Research
Key Guidance
Los Angeles et al.: Sage, 3rd ed. (2020), viii, 460 pp.
"Netnography is an adaptation of ethnography for the online world, pioneered by Robert Kozinets, and is concerned with the study of online cultures and communities as distinct social phenomena, rather than isolated content. In this landmark third edition, Netnography: The Essential Guide provides th
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Doing Fieldwork in a Pandemic
[author] (2020), 39 pp.
"This document was initially directed at ways for how to turn fieldwork that was initially planned as using face-to-face methods into a more ‘hands-off’ mode. However, people have added useful material about ‘born digital’ research (content already generated on the internet by online interac
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Remote Surveying in a Pandemic: Handbook
Innovations for Poverty Action (ipa) (2020), 43 pp.
"As part of IPA’s response to COVID-19, many existing and new data collections have shifted to remote data collection modes including computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI), interactive voice response (IVR) and SMS surveys. This transition has required new protocols, new tools, and new work
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Going Digital: Web Data Collection Using Twitter as an Example
Oxford: Oxfam (2020), 30 pp.
"These guidelines are published under the Going Digital series where we explore and share our learning in using new digital technologies in evaluation and research. In this fifth instalment of Going Digital, another form of digital data is explored: web data. The paper discusses how web data, in par
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Doing Digital Methods
Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2019), xviii, 308 pp.
"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
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How to Analyze Social Media? Assessing the Promise of Mixed-Methods Designs for Studying the Twitter Feeds of PMSCs
International Studies Perspectives, volume 20, issue 2 (2019), pp. 188-200
"Social scientists and international relations scholars are increasingly analyzing data collected from Twitter or Facebook to examine political processes in which social media are used. The sheer amount of web 2.0 data and its heterogeneity (including text, photos, and videos), however, pose challen
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Methods for Studying Video Games and Religion
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xviii, 221 pp.
