Research Methods for Reading Digital Data in the Digital Humanities

Gabriele Griffin; Matt Hayler

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2016

Research Methods for Reading Digital Data in the Digital Humanities

Gabriele Griffin and Matt Hayler

In the series Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474409629

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About this book

The first volume to introduce the techniques and methods of reading digital material for research

Digital Humanities has become one of the new domains of academe at the interface of technological development, epistemological change, and methodological concerns. This volume explores how digital material might be read or utilized in research, whether that material is digitally born, as fanfiction, for example, or transposed from other sources.

The volume asks questions such as what happens when text is transformed from printed into digital matter, and how that impacts on the methods we bring to bear on exploring that technologized matter, for example in the case of digital editions. Issues such as how to analyse visual material in digital archives or Twitter feeds, how to engage in data mining, what it means to undertake crowd-sourcing, big data, and what digital network analyses can tell us about how online interactions are dealt with. This will give Humanities researchers ideas for doing digitally based research and also suggest ways of engaging with new digital research methods.

Key features

First volume centred on the navigation and interpretation of digital material as research methods in the Humanities
Up-to-date analyses of issues and methods including big data, crowdsourcing, digital network analysis, working with digital additions
Based on actual research projects such as para-textual work with fanfiction, reading twitter, different kinds of distant and close readings

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
1. Introduction Gabriele Griffin and Matt Hayler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Matter Matters: The Effects of Materiality and the Move from Page to Screen Matt Hayler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
3. Reading the Visual Page in the Digital Archive Natalie M. Houston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
4. Paratextual Navigation as a Research Method: Fan Fiction Archives and Reader Instructions Maria Lindgren Leavenworth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
5. Data Mining and Word Frequency Analysis Dawn Archer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
6. Reading Twitter: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in the Interpretation of Twitter Material Stefan Gelfgren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
7. Reading Small Data in Indigenous Contexts: Ethical Perspectives Coppélie Cocq Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
8. Knowing Your Crowd: An Essential Component to Crowdsourcing Research Gabriel K. Wolfenstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
9. Fantasies of Scientificity: Ethnographic Identity and the Use of QDA Software Anna Johansson and Anna Sofia Lundgren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
10. Digital Network Analysis: Understanding Everyday Online Discourse Micro- and Macroscopically Robert Glenn Howard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
11. Dealing with Big Data Tobias Blanke and Andrew Prescott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Illustrations
- Other: 12 B/W illustrations 12 B/W tables
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: February 15, 2016
ISBN: 9781474409629