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Doing Social and Political Research in a Digital Age:
National Center of Competence in Research: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century 5 November 2015, Zürich, Switzerland
Liliana Bounegru | lilianabounegru.org | @bb_liliana
An Introduction to Digital Methods
An introduction to digital methods for social and political research
1. What are digital methods?!2. How to use digital methods for social and
political research!3. Digital methods resources
An introduction to digital methods for social and political research
1. What are digital methods?!2. How to use digital methods for social and
political research!3. Digital methods resources
Situated within current debates about the digitisation of
social research
- Duncan J. Watts, “A twenty-first century science,” Nature, 2007
“Data about Internet-based communication and interactivity could revolutionise our understanding of collective human
behaviour.” !
– David Lazer et al., “Computational Social Science”, Science, 2009
“…[T]racing the spread of arguments, rumours, or positions about political and other issues in the blogosphere, as well as the behaviour of individuals ‘surfing’ the Internet, where
the concerns of an electorate become visible in the searches they conduct.”
–Savage M. & Burrows, R. (2007). “The Coming Crisis of Empirical Sociology”, Sociology
“…In an age of knowing capitalism, sociologists have not adequately thought about the challenges posed to their expertise by the proliferation of ‘social’ transactional data
which are now routinely collected, processed and analysed by a wide variety of private and public institutions”
–Richard Rogers (2013). Digital Methods. MIT Press
“Google envy”: “the capacity of search engine companies and social networking sites to collect data that approximates
both the type and the scale social scientists would like to generate themselves”
Digital methods take up the challenge of rethinking the methodological repertoires of social and political research by creatively engaging with digital environments and their
devices
– Richard Rogers, “Political Research in the Digital Age”, International Public Policy Review, 2014
“[Digital methods] refers to repurposing online devices and platforms (such as Google searches, Facebook and
Wikipedia) for social and political research that would often have been otherwise improbable.”
– Richard Rogers, “Political Research in the Digital Age”, International Public Policy Review, 2014
“[Digital methods] encourage a sociological outlook or imagination about research opportunities that exist in online culture by following the medium rather than asking it to do
one’s disciplinary bidding.”
–Noortje Marres, “Re-distributing methods - digital social research as participatory research,” 2011
“This approach accords to digital devices, search engines chief among them, the capacity to generate potentially new
methods of social research.”
– Richard Rogers, “Political Research in the Digital Age”, International Public Policy Review, 2014
Digital methods are … !(1) an approach to studying social and political issues online (“issue mapping”, “controversy mapping”, “digital STS”) !(2) an approach to the study of digital platforms to makes visible the method and information politics of digital devices !(3) a contribution to the methodological repertoire of social and Internet studies and way to reflect on the politics of methods of these disciplines
More concretely …
Rogers, R. (2013) Digital Methods.Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
DMI Summer School (2012)
Digital Methods Initiative (2014) DMI Tools.!Available at: http://tools.digitalmethods.net
EMAPS (2014) “Climaps: A Global Issue Atlas of Climate Change Adaptation”!Available at: http://climaps.org/
An introduction to digital methods for social and political research
1. What are digital methods?!2. How to use digital methods for social and
political research!3. Digital methods resources
Rogers, R. & Kok, S. (2015)
Three methods and some examples
Rogers, R. & Kok, S. (2015)
Rogers, R. & Kok, S. (2015)
Method 1: !Web hyperlink analysis to study issue networks and politics of association!
Project: !Right-Wing Formations in Europe and Their Counter-Measures: An Online Mapping
The Guardian (2013) “The rise of far right parties across Europe is a chilling echo of the 1930s”.Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/15/far-right-threat-europe-integration
Huffington Post (2014) “Sudden Rise of Far Right Groups in EU Parliament Rings Alarm Bells Across Europe”. Available at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elinadav-heymann/sudden-rise-of-far-right-
_b_5512961.html
New York Times (2014) “Populist Party Gaining Muscle to Push Britain to the Right”.Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/08/world/europe/populist-party-gaining-muscle-to-push-
britain-to-the-right.html
What kinds of issues are most active amongst far right groups?
How are far right extremist groups connected to populist right and other right wing groups
online?
What are the recruitment methods of far right groups?
Are current counter-measures proving effective?
Profiles for 13 European countries.
Method!
1. Compile lists of links per country with expert input
2. Hyperlink analysis with the Issue Crawler
3. Study issues and actors in resulting networks
Tool: The Issue Crawler
Marres, N. & Rogers, R. (2005) “Recipe for tracing the fate of issues and their publics on the Web”. Making Things Public. Latour, B. & Weibel P. (eds). MIT Press.
“A software tool that locates and visualizes networks on the web”
Issue Crawler: https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/ToolIssueCrawler
Greece: blood and soil and organic markets
Rogers, R. et al (2013) “Right-Wing Formations in Europe and Their Counter-Measures: An Online Mapping”. Digital Methods Initiative. https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/RightWingPopulismStudy
Hungary: horse and yurt recruitment festivals
Rogers, R. et al (2013) “Right-Wing Formations in Europe and Their Counter-Measures: An Online Mapping”. Digital Methods Initiative. https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/RightWingPopulismStudy
Taking back the yurt?
Findings
Right-wing politics in the North is animated by Islamophobia while the old right is still active in the South.
!New issues (e.g. environment, anti-globalisation and rights),
principles and recruitment techniques animate right wing politics in Europe today.
Counter-measures are often outdated (mismatch between activities
of the right and measures to counter them). !
Rogers, R. & Kok, S. (2015)
Rogers, R. & Kok, S. (2015)
Method 2: !Facebook analysis to study issue formations and dynamics
Project 2: !Mapping counter-Jihadist (anti-Islamist) groups on social media
The Guardian (2012) “Far-right anti-Muslim network on rise globally as Breivik trial opens”. Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/14/breivik-trial-norway-mass-murderer
Hope Not Hate (2012) “Counter-Jihad Report”.Available at: http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/counter-jihad/
Are different Counter-Jihadist groups in Europe connected? If so how?
Methods!!
1. Set up Facebook research account !
2. Submit request to join Facebook groups of interest making research intentions known in the request
!3. Use the Netvizz application to extract (anonymised)
user activity data across groups
Tool: Netvizz
Rieder, B. (2013). Studying Facebook via data extraction: the Netvizz application. In WebSci '13 Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference (pp. 346-355). New York: ACM.
“Netvizz is a tool that extracts data from different sections of the Facebook platform
(personal profile, groups, pages) for research purposes.”
Netvizz: https://tools.digitalmethods.net/netvizz/facebook/netvizz/
Digital Methods Initiative. “Counter-Jihadist Networks: Mapping the Connections Between Facebook Groups in Europe.”
Digital Methods Initiative. “Counter-Jihadist Networks: Mapping the Connections Between Facebook Groups in Europe.”
Findings
Facebook is an important medium for extremist groups.
!Three main clusters based on geographical proximity.
!European Counter-Jihadist groups are networked and
transnational. !
Most engaged with content is meme-like.
Who are the new leaders?
Findings!!
Offline leaders are active on Facebook. !
There are also new emerging online leaders (Facebook group administrators).
!New technique for identifying online leaders.
Rogers, R. & Kok, S. (2015)
Rogers, R. & Kok, S. (2015)
Method 3: !Twitter analysis to study issue networks and content engagement
Building a tweet collection
Rogers, R. & Bounegru, L. (2015)
Types of analysis
Rogers, R. & Bounegru, L. (2015)
“The Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolset(DMI-TCAT) captures tweets and allows for
multiple analyses (hashtags, mentions, users, search, ...).”
Tool
Borra, E. & Rieder, B. (2014) “Programmed method: developing a toolset for capturing and analyzing tweets”. Aslib Journal of Information Management. Vol. 66 No. 3: 262-278.
TCAT: https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/ToolDmiTcat
TCAT: https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/ToolDmiTcat
Types of analysis
Rogers, R. & Bounegru, L. (2015)
Three techniques and some examples
Types of analysis
Rogers, R. & Bounegru, L. (2015)
Types of analysis
Rogers, R. & Bounegru, L. (2015)
Project: !Climaps: A Global Issue Atlas of Climate Change Adaptation
Can we read the current state of climate action and adaptation from climate change
debates on Twitter?
Methods!!
1. Create collection of tweets containing climate change-related hashtags with TCAT
!2. Extract hashtag co-occurence network file from TCAT and import it into network analysis
software to compute clustering and other metrics. !
3. Manually analyse and classify the resulting hashtag clusters.
Tool: Gephi
“Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks
and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs.”
Bastian M., Heymann S., Jacomy M. (2009). “Gephi: an open source software for exploring and manipulating networks.” International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media.
Hashtags as embedded climate issues (co-hashtag analysis)
EMAPS (2014) “Climaps: A Global Issue Atlas of Climate Change Adaptation”!Available at: http://climaps.org/
Wired Italia (2014) “Cambiamenti del clima: 20 anni di conferenze”. March 2014. No. 60.
Wired Italia (2014) “Beautiful Information, in mostra le migliori infografiche di Wired”.Available at: http://www.wired.it/attualita/media/2014/03/04/beautiful-information-infografiche-wired/
Wired Italia (2014) “Beautiful Information, in mostra le migliori infografiche di Wired”.Available at: http://www.wired.it/attualita/media/2014/03/04/beautiful-information-infografiche-wired/
Types of analysis
Rogers, R. & Bounegru, L. (2015)
Project: !The Global Health and Development Networks in Europe: An Online Mapping
How is expertise defined across networks and do different networks recognise the
same experts?
Methods!!
1. Create two collections of tweets around global health and development issues: (1) hashtag-
based and (2) user-based with TCAT !
2. Extract ‘top most mentioned users’ files from TCAT and map them in a scatterplot.
!3. Manually analyse the scatterplot to understand shared and distinct experts for the two networks.
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@Mention analysis to identify expertise
Types of analysis
Rogers, R. & Bounegru, L. (2015)
Project: !The Global Health and Development Networks in Europe: An Online Mapping
What content animates the global health and development space on Twitter?
Methods!!
1. Create hashtag-based collection of tweets around global health and development issues.
!2. Extract daily retweet frequency file from TCAT
and visualise it. !
3. Manually analyse the content of the most retweeted tweets to get a grasp of the content
that animates the issue space.
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Networked stories: What stories circulate best in the global health and development space?
Retweet analysis to tell story over time
Rogers, R. & Bounegru, L. (2015) “The Global Health and Development Issue Space in Europe: Mapping the Network”
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Networked stories: What stories circulate best in the global health and development space?
Rogers, R. & Bounegru, L. (2015) “The Global Health and Development Issue Space in Europe: Mapping the Network”
To recap
How to use digital methods for social and political research
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List of digital platforms and types of analyses that they can be repurposed for (illustrative rather than exhaustive)
Illustrated three types of analysis through projects where they have been utilised
Web hyperlink analysis to study issue networks and politics of association
Facebook analysis to study issue formations and dynamics
Twitter analysis to study issue networks and content engagement
Provided a sketch of the methods and tools behind each form of analysis
The Issue Crawler for hyperlink analysis and web network visualisation
Netvizz for exaction of data from Facebook groups and pages as tabular and network files
TCAT for data collection via the Twitter APIs and multiple network and statistical analyses
Gephi for network analysis and visualisation
An introduction to digital methods for social and political research
1. What are digital methods?!2. How to use digital methods for social and
political research!3. Digital methods resources
Digital Methods Initiative (2014) DMI Tools.!Available at: http://tools.digitalmethods.net
Sciences Po Media Lab (2014) “Tools we develop and tools we use”!Available at: http://tools.medialab.sciences-po.fr/
Digital Methods Initiative (2015). Papers and Publications.!Available at: https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/PapersPublications
Join us for DMI Winter Schools and Summer Schools!
DMI Winter School 2016!https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WinterSchool2016
In conclusion
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Introduction the digital methods approach
Some conceptual background
How to do research with digital methods
Key forms of analysis, projects and tools
Additional resources
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What we learned
How might digital methods be useful in your own research?
Thank You!Liliana Bounegru | lilianabounegru.org | @bb_liliana
