6. Reading Twitter: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in the Interpretation of Twitter Material

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. 2. Matter Matters: The Effects of Materiality and the Move from Page to Screen 14
6. 3. Reading the Visual Page in the Digital Archive 36
7. 4. Paratextual Navigation as a Research Method: Fan Fiction Archives and Reader Instructions 51
8. 5. Data Mining and Word Frequency Analysis 72
9. 6. Reading Twitter: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in the Interpretation of Twitter Material 93
10. 7. Reading Small Data in Indigenous Contexts: Ethical Perspectives 111
11. 8. Knowing Your Crowd: An Essential Component to Crowdsourcing Research 126
12. 9. Fantasies of Scientificity: Ethnographic Identity and the Use of QDA Software 148
13. 10. Digital Network Analysis: Understanding Everyday Online Discourse Micro- and Macroscopically 165
14. 11. Dealing with Big Data 184
15. Notes on Contributors 206
16. Index 209