What are digital methods?

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Researchers at the Digital Media Research Centre use a

range of approaches to understand the world around us.
In the video, Axel and Jean introduce you to a couple of ways
that insights can be generated using digital methods. The
article below, by Richard Rogers, will dive much deeper into
methods used, using lots of examples to show how they can be
applied and the findings that can be drawn. However, before
we begin to practice these methods, lets first consider the
ethical implications.
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CRICOS No. 00213J
- http://www.govcom.org/publications/full_list/etrds0076.pdf

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Burgess: We use digital media technologies every day in many different forms,
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traces behind. And using digital methods to analyse these traces, we can observe and

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much more general developments in society.
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Bruns: At the QUT Digital Media Research Centre we have developed a variety of
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0k methods to understand the world around us. For example we use a method called
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issuei mapping to understand how controversies originate and play out across social media

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