Doing Digital Methods: Some Recent Highlights from Winter and Summer Schools

Doing Digital Methods
27 June 2016, University of Amsterdam
Liliana Bounegru | lilianabounegru.org | @bb_liliana
Some Recent Highlights from
Winter and Summer Schools

Digital Methods Winter School 2016
Otherwise Engaged. Critical Analytics
and the New Meanings of Engagement
Online

How may online engagement be
understood?
How can engagement metrics be
repurposed for social and cultural research?

Digital Methods for
Number Critique

Which platform features and aspects of
use practices are extended and
reinterpreted through support app
ecologies?

II. App Ecologies
1. App-specific: Instagram (likes,
followers, tags, reposts, hashtags)
2. Cross-platform: Instagram, Twitter,
Facebook, Snapchat, Tinder
3. Feature/metrics-based: Followers,
likes, hashtags, subscribers
4. Alternative approach
Methodology
Get apps per keyword from App Annie.
Identify related apps Google Play Similar
Apps tool.
Digital Methods for Number Critique (2016). https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/
WinterSchool2016DigitalMethodsForNumberCritique

Instagram - Key Findings
Image editing
apps
Dating appsDating apps
Image
editing apps

A Critical Cartography of
the Mediterranean
Refugee Crisis in 2015

Method: Operationalizing critical cartography
Frame analysis of maps: Which places are included
on the map? Are the origins of refugees recognized in
the journalistic narrative or just the European
destination?
Layering and Heatmaps
Data collection 1:
Query design in
Google images:
[refugees routes]
[migrant routes]
Data collection 2:
Videos from Arabic
media
Zoom-in | zoom-out: From straight lines to
journeys.
Framing analysis: Context- what images go
with maps? Content- How do maps mean?
Mapping
Content analysis - image
coding
A Critical Cartography of the Mediterranean Refugee Crisis in 2015 (2016). https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/
Dmi/WinterSchool2016CommunicativeArchitectureOfTheMediteraneanRefugeeCrisis

Frame analysis
of maps
Which places are included on the map? | Are the
origins of refugees recognized in the journalistic
narrative? | Or, is it just the European destination
featured?

“Migrant routes” - English.

“Migrant routes” - English vs Italian.

“Refugee routes” - English vs Italian.

A Critical Genealogy of the Getty Images
Lean In Collection:
Researching the Feminist Politics of Stock
Photography across Representation,
Circulation and Recontextualisation

The Lean In Collection on Getty Images. http://leanin.org/getty/

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/10/business/leaninorg-and-getty-aim-to-change-womens-portrayal-in-
stock-photos.html

“Oh salad, you are hilarious.” http://imgur.com/gallery/7wOfG4U

“‘Realistic’ imaging of women in stock photography: Can Getty Images create a more diverse
representation of the world?” https://atavist.com/cms/project/236526/preview/

What kind of feminism do the images evoke
through their content but also through their
circulation?
How to study the life of an image online?

What kind of feminism do the
images evoke through their content?

A Critical Genealogy of the Getty Images Lean In Collection (2016).
https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WinterSchool2016CriticalGenealogyGettyImagesLeanIn

How is the meaning of the collection
articulated through its circulation
online?

Digital Engagement and
Cultural Heritage

How is the identity of an
artwork reinterpreted
through circulation online?

Digital Engagement and Cultural Heritage (2016).
https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WinterSchool2016DigitalEngagementAndCulturalHeritage

How is the #museumselﬁe
practiced on Instagram? Which
museums are selﬁe-friendly?

DMI Summer School 2015
Post-Snowden Media Empiricism and
Secondary Social Media: Data Studies
Beyond Facebook and Twitter

How may we rethink the study of online
media post-Snowden?
What value do secondary social media
platforms have for research?

Political Memes in a Globalised World:
Does Love Win?

Does Love Win? The Mechanics of Memetics (2015). https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/
SummerSchool2015DoesLoveWin

Can we map the geographies of
expressions of support and their
counter-reactions?

#Whomademyclothes - Seeking the
Voices of the Workers

“In the ongoing debate about globalization,
what's been missing is the voices of the workers themselves.” Chang (2009)

Can we ﬁnd the voices of the
workers online? How can we proﬁle
them?

#FactoryWorkersSpeakOut
Google
Scraper
#Whomademyclothes - Seeking the voices of the workers (2015). https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/
HTwhomademyclothes

HTwhomademyclothes

Anti-child labor campaign
HTwhomademyclothes

Meeting to address sexual harassment
HTwhomademyclothes

Tracking Ecologies (2015). https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/SummerSchool2015TrackingEcologies

Can we identify tracker styles per
website type?

Micro-Temporalities of the Web

What is the ‘page weight’ of bugs
(trackers, beacons, widgets and other
devices) and how can we experience
their micro-temporalities differently?

Micro-Temporalities of the Web (2015). http://gauthiier.github.io/www-micro-temporalities/

Summer School Tips from Previous
Coordinators

• The format is ‘learning by doing’. To get the most out of
it be sure to have watched the tool tutorials and done
the readings ahead of the event.
• Test hypotheses and tools on small datasets ﬁrst.
• Don't start with theory but start with the research
question, the claims (in the literature or press) and the
data;
• Let the data inform theory and let your expectations be
challenged and shaped by the data.

• Split big groups into subgroups.
• Keep the last day free to work on the presentation and
wiki page report.
• At the final presentation it is better to present one
interesting finding than 10 non-findings (findings are
more than data description).
• Be persistent - there are always ups and downs.
• Take coffee breaks seriously :-)

Thank you and enjoy the
summer school!

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