Digital Methods

A Short Introduction

Tommaso Venturini, Richard Rogers

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Polity Press
04 July 2025

Research methods: general

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. Cutting through theoretical and technical complications, they focus on 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, plotting networks, 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 Methods is a must-read for students and scholars of digital social research, media studies, critical data studies, digital humanities, computational social sciences, and for those who are interested in digital methods but do not know where to start.

By: Tommaso Venturini, Richard Rogers
Imprint: Polity Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 157mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 510g
ISBN: 9781509562589
ISBN 10: 1509562583
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 04 July 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Tommaso Venturini is Associate Professor at the Medialab of the University of Geneva and researcher at the CNRS Centre for Internet and Society. Richard Rogers is Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam.

Reviews for Digital Methods: A Short Introduction

“A powerful new introduction from two pioneers of digital methods. It provides both detailed guidance and methodological reflection on how to capture, curate and analyze online data, so you will come away feeling more than ready to give this a go.” Noortje Marres, author of Digital Sociology “This book makes a strong and original contribution to digital methods while building on, completing, and innovating existing resources.” Stefania Vicari, University of Sheffield