Digital Research Methods and the Diaspora

ISBN-13: 9781032373485 / Miękka / 2023 / 168 str.

Australia) Nguyen Dang (RMIT University

Opis

This book introduces digital methods as research strategies not only for dealing with the ephemeral and unstable nature of tracing the diaspora with digital data, but also for reconceptualizing digital diasporas as assemblages and networks of more-than-human actors.

Spis treści

Part I Quantitative approaches: making natively digital data speak 1. Diasporas as quantifiable networks 2. Social network analysis and the diaspora 3. Natural language processing and linguistic issues in diaspora research Part II Qualitative and technological approaches 4. Digital diasporas as ethnographic sites 5. Digital ethnography for the diaspora 6. Automating the diaspora? Algorithmic organization of digital diasporas.

O autorze

Dang Nguyen is a Research Fellow at the ADM+S Centre at RMIT University, Australia. She researches the social implications of digital technologies by bringing together methods of different disciplines and looking beyond Western contexts. Dang has published in venues such as New Media & Society, Information, Communication & Society, Social Science & Medicine, and Health & Place.