Digital Methods Tool Medley. Digital Methods Summer School 2012
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This document discusses the Digital Methods Summer School held in Amsterdam in 2012. It provides an overview of several digital research tools and methods that can be used together in a chain to answer research questions. Examples of tools mentioned are link rippers to collect URLs, compare lists to analyze data, Google scraper to query search engines, and Gephi for visualizing network data. The goal is to demonstrate how a "medley" or variety of digital tools can be combined to conduct social and cultural research online.
Digital Methods Tool Medley. Digital Methods Summer School 2012
- 1. digital methods tool medley Digital Methods Summer School 2012, Amsterdam, 25 June - 6 July anne helmond www.digitalmethods.net Tomás Saraceno, galaxies forming along filaments, Venice Biennial 2009
- 2. medley? 1. a diverse assortment or mixture 2. a musical composition made up of a series of songs or short pieces <a medley of snack foods available on the buffet table>
- 3. new methods and tools for social and cultural research
- 4. digital methods initiative tool database: tools.digitalmethods.net
- 5. digital methods initiative tool database: tools.digitalmethods.net
- 6. cablegate research question -> operationalization & method: often a chain of tools
- 7. The Response of the Source Question: Do the sources acknowledge cablegate? 1.Get all links for US embassy websites: http://www.usembassy.gov/ 2.Compile list of embassies mentioned in cables: http://wikileaks.ch/cablegate.html 3.Compare lists 4.Query mentioned embassies for: 1. wikileaks 2. "Julian Assange" 3. Assange 4. cablegate 5.Get number of cables per embassy 6.Visualize output
- 10. result: links!
- 11. repeat & paste in spreadsheet
- 13. aim: get #nr mentions
- 14. tool: googlescraper (Lippmannian Device)
- 16. aim: get most leaked embassy tool: Google Docs build on leakfeed API
- 17. further analysis
- 18. digital methods search as research the nationality of rights types Research project by the Digital Methods Initiative Summer School 09
- 19. research question Can the search engine be repurposed to show which rights are specific per country?
- 20. .nl (Dutch), .be (Dutch, French), .com/.co.uk/.com.au/(English), .it (Italian), .ro (Romanian), .md (Moldavian), .ca (French, English), .fr (French), .de/.at/.lu (German), .fi (Finnish), .se (Swedish), .ee (Estonian), .ru (Russian)
- 21. Google.se with query “rattigheter” (13.07.09) Google.fi with query “oikeudet” (13.07.09) Google.ee with query “oigused” (15.07.09) Google.lv with query “tiesibas” (16.07.09) Google.co.uk with query “rights” (13.07.09) Google.nl with query “rechten” (13.07.09) Google.fr with query “droits” (14.07.09) Google.pt with query “direitos” (14.07.09) Google.es with query “derechos” (13.07.09)
- 22. the nationalities of issues
- 25. mapping the dutch blogosphere tool: issuecrawler
- 27. result: map IssueCrawler -> Gephi
- 28. the historical dutch blogosphere
- 29. tool: harvester
- 30. result: links! the historical dutch blogosphere
- 31. NL Blogosphere deceased blogs tool: linkripper tool: URL responder (= Get HTTP response status codes from Censorship Explorer)
- 32. tool: wikipedia bot edits scraper
- 33. tool: dorling map generator
- 35. tool: censorship explorer & tool: dorling map generator https://mappingiranonline.digitalmethods.net/
- 38. Tracker Tracker -> Gephi
- 39. kthxbai! kthnxbai! anne@digitalmethods.net www.digitalmethods.net anne@digitalmethods.net tool wizzard: erik borra tool wizzard: erik borra