Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The redistribution of methods:
on intervention in digital social
research, broadly conceived
- The redistribution of social research
methods: five views
- Method is an important
mediator of divisions of labour
in social research.
- Methods offer a means to conjure up
and establish particular versions of
social research.
- Qualitative social research, proposes to grant
much more initiative to research subjecs, while
much quantitative research endeavours to
create a role for standarized tols.
- Strategy of choice for those
attempting to establish
privilege.
- Some audacious claims
about the opportunities for
methodological innovation
enabled by online networked
media, such as the ability to
detect patterns in user
activity on the Web which may
indicate or predict real-time
events, like an onslaught of
the flu
- Transactional data, which ‘record the
activities and interactions of the
subjects directly’ and are thus
routinely generated as part of social
activities by digital devices
- Debates in social research about
methodology have long served as a
key site.
- The rise of social media like email,
blogs and Facebook here makes
possible the rejection of
user-generated data for purposes
of social research, and a
redistribution of research capacity
towards online registrational devices.
- ‘virtual methods’ and ‘digital
methods’, and they can be
distinguished from the former two
in that they are explicitly concerned
with the changing relations between
social research, its devices and
objects in digital online
environments.
- The digitalization of socia life and the
redistribution of social research
- The proliferation of new
devices
- Redistribution is the production of
new knowledge and new
technologies to involve complex
interactions and transactions.
- Research and innovation,
are a matter of the
transfer of information.
- Genres
- Digitization means for the distribution of roles
in social research between various actors in
and outside.
- Reliance on the social
media platform Twitter
itself.
- Formats for the
documentation of social life
- Social Media
- Platforms
- Process of social data
generation in everyday
practices
- The analysis of
digital social data
- Set of tools and services facilitating
the analysis fo the data generated by
platforms and blor posts from
Facebook.
- The co-word machine: from co-word analysis to
online issue profiling
- Digital networked spaces
- Are key hubs of the global
information economy
- Social media platforms, can be taken as
evidence that the medium has gone ‘the
other way’
- Reputational dynamics
- things become more widely
liked by virtue of being liked,
have become very much
the currency of online
media
- Social media, then, have proven to be no
less adaptable to the purposes of
content analyysis.sis than social network
anal
- Issue Crawler: from co-citation
to co-link analysis
- Issue Crawler is an online platform
for the location, analysis and
visualization of hyperlink networks
on the Web
- Launched in the early 2000s, was
intended to enable the location and
analysis of ‘issue networks’ on the
Web, as it uses hyperlink analysis
to delineate sets of pages dealing
with a common theme that are
connected by hyperlink
- In 1990 the rise of the Internet was
widely interpreted as an opportunity
to apply methods of citation analysis
in the new medium, and to adapt
this classic method for the analysis
of hyperlink structures
- co-citation analysis onto the Web
- co-citation analysis seeks to
delineate clusters of relevant
sources by identifying sources
that are jointly linked to by
other sources
- deploys the method of colink analysis in
order to undercut the authority effects to
which citation and network analysis are
vulnerable
- Issue of source
authority
- contains an actual innovation
can be debated
- as methods of citation analysis were
being re-invented as methods of
hyperlink analysis
- Issue Crawler simply transposed an
old methodological solution into a
new context