Digital Methods Course pre-reading

Visual Methods

Tseronis, A. (2018) Multimodal argumentation: Beyond the verbal/visual divide. Semiotica, 2018(220): 41-67.

Sensing Methods

Andrejevic, M. and Burdon, M. (2014) Defining the sensor society. Television & New Media 16(1): 19-36. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476414541552

Please familiarize yourself with the BBC micro:bit project and Microsoft MakeCode editor: https://microbit.org/get-started/getting-started/introduction/ and https://makecode.microbit.org/#editor

If your laptop device does not have a USB slot please bring along an appropriate adaptor.

Creative AI Methods

Burkhardt, S. and Rieder, B. (2024) Foundation models are platform models: Prompting and the political economy of AI. Big Data & Society 11(2): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517241247839

You will need a Google account or ChatGPT account (or an account for another generative AI platform of your choosing).

Text Mining

This course assumes no prior knowledge of R. However, please make sure you take some time before the session to install R and RStudio on your own device.

If you are interested in a specific corpus of texts (in English) and you have access to them, please make sure you bring them along (digitally) to the session in .txt or .csv format.

Data Visualisation

Healy, K. (2019) Data visualization: A practical introduction. Princeton University Press, Chapter 1, 1-31.

Geospatial Methods

Rankin, W. (2020) Race and the Territorial Imaginary: Reckoning with the Demographic Cartography of the United States. Modern American History 3(2–3): 199–230.

Please bring a laptop computer with QGIS installed (freely available here: https://qgis.org/download/)

Ethics and Open Science

Association of Internet Researchers ethics guidelines. Available at: https://aoir.org/ethics/

Fox, J., Pearce, K. E., Massanari, A. L., Riles, J. M., Szulc, Ł. et al. (2021) Open science, closed doors? Countering marginalization through an agenda for ethical, inclusive research in communication. Journal of Communication, 71(5), 764–784.