D. Discussion and readings

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This section introduces articles, news and posts that discuss various topics related to digital methods in social sciences.

Bastos, Marco & Walker, Shawn T. (2018). Facebook’s data lockdown is a disaster for academic researchers. 

  • The article discusses problems related to Facebook's data lockdown from the point of view of academic research in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Bruns, A. (2019) After the ‘APIcalypse’: social media platforms and their fight against critical scholarly research. Information, Communication & Society, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2019.1637447 

Burrows, Roger & Savage, Mike (2014). After the crisis? Big Data and the methodological challenges of empirical sociology. Big Data & Society 1:1, 1-6.

van Es, Karin; Wieringa, Maranke & Schäfer, Mirko Tobias (2018). Tool Criticism. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Web Studies - WS.2 2018 (pp. 24–27). New York, New York, USA: ACM Press.

Freelon, Deen (2018) Computational Research in the Post-API Age, Political Communication, 35:4, 665-668, DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2018.1477506

Kennedy, Helen; Moss, Giles; Birchall, Christopher & Moshonas, Stylianos (2014). Balancing the potential and problems of digital methods through action research: methodological reflections. Information, Communication & Society 18:2, 172–186. 

Nelimarkka, Matti (2019). Miksi jokaisen (laskennallisen) yhteiskuntatietelijän pitäisi oppia koodaamaan?

Perriam, J., Andreas Birkbak & Andy Freeman (2020) Digital methods in a post-API environment. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 23:3, 277-290, DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2019.1682840 

Ruppert, Evelyn; Law, John & Savage, Mike (2013). Reassembling Social Science Methods: The Challenge of Digital Devices. Theory, Culture & Society 30:4, 22–46.

Van Selm, Martine; Jankowski, Nicholas (2006). Conducting online surveys. Quality and Quantity. 40, 435–456.

Venturini, T. & Richard Rogers (2019) “API-Based Research” or How can Digital Sociology and Journalism Studies Learn from the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Data Breach, Digital Journalism, 7:4, 532-540, DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2019.1591927

Wright, Kevin (2005). Researching Internet-Based Populations: Advantages and Disadvantages of Online Survey Research, Online Questionnaire Authoring Software Packages, and Web Survey Services. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 10:3.

Field work ideas

A collaboratively updated "Doing Fieldwork in a Pandemic" document lists ideas for online data collection (while in lockdown, but can be used afterwards too).