Please note the following are a collection of resources that you may find useful before attending the methods@manchester Digital Methods Summer School course. Visual Methods Milner, R.M., 2013. Pop polyvocality: Internet memes, public participation, and the Occupy Wall Street movement. International journal of communication, 7, p.34. Sensing AI 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 https://microbit.org/get-started/getting-started/introduction/
- Microsoft MakeCode editor https://makecode.microbit.org/#editor
- CreateAI project https://microbit.org/get-started/user-guide/microbit-createai/
If your laptop device does not have a USB slot, please bring along an appropriate adaptor. Please also check if your laptop supports Bluetooth. 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 For genAI text- and image-based activities, you will need a Google account or ChatGPT account (or an account for another text/image-based genAI tool). You may also wish to create a SUNO account if you want to experiment with AI music generation. Text Analysis with R – Sentiment Analysis 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. Participants are asked to come to the session with an example of a challenge related to ethics and/or open science from their past, current, or potential future research that involves the use of digital methods.