Introduction to Digital Methods
Objectives
1) Be enabled with a theoretical and practical approach to the doing of social, cultural or medium research advanced by digital methods 2) Grasp the whole and the parts of doing digital methods research, including how to extract, analyse, interpret and visualise data from web platforms, search engines and app stores 3) Design and implement research projects with and through natively digital objects and methods 4) Be able to use a range of tools and approaches to critically take advantage of digital methods research
General characterization
Code
02109821
Credits
10.0
Responsible teacher
Ilo Aguiar Reginaldo Alexandre
Hours
Weekly - 3
Total - 280
Teaching language
English
Prerequisites
Available soon
Bibliography
Marres, N. (2017). Digital Sociology: The Reinvention of Social Research. London: Polity Press. Rieder, B., and Röhle, T. (2017). Digital Methods: From Challenges to Bildung. In M. T. Schafer and K. van Es (Eds.), The Datafied Society: Studying Culture Through Data (pp. 109–124). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Rogers, R. (2019). Doing Digital Methods. Sage Publication. Venturini, T., Jacomy, M., and Jensen, P. (2019). What Do We See When We Look at Networks. An Introduction to Visual Network Analysis and Force-Directed Layouts. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3378438 ieder, B., Coromina, Òscar, and Matamoros-Fernández, A. (2020). Mapping YouTube. First Monday, 25(8). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v25i8.10667 Gillespie, T. (2010). “The politics of ‘platforms’,” New media & society, volume 12, number 3, pp. 347-364. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1461444809342738
Teaching method
In class teaching and practical labs. The teaching method includes theoretical and practical exposition of contents supported by the active and critical participation of students.
Evaluation method
Método de avaliação - The evaluation consist of a group project (intermediary evaluation) and individual 2,000-word essay (final evaluation). Each evaluation element counts for 50% of the final grade.(100%)
Subject matter
1. What are digital methods? 1.1. Research based on a medium-specific theory with «born digital» data 1.2. How to lead research on the internet, web platforms and social media 1.3. Affordances and limitations of digital methods 2. Applied research with digital methods and tool 2.1. Data extraction 2.2. Analysis and visualisation 2.3. Interpretation
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