1st Edition

Digital Research Methods and the Diaspora Assembling Transnational Networks with and Beyond Digital Data

By Dang Nguyen Copyright 2024
160 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

160 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

160 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The computational turn in the social sciences and humanities has generated much excitement about the potential to refresh our approaches to the study of the techno-social. From natively digital to digitised data, researchers of digital diasporas increasingly find themselves working with a range of disparate digital objects. These digital objects can include anything from hyperlink to timestamps,... Read more

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.

Biography

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.