Papers and Publications

2019

• M. Dieter, C. Gerlitz, A. Helmond, N. Tkacz, F.N. van der Vlist, E.J.T. Weltevrede (2019). Multi-Situated App Studies: Methods and Propositions. Social Media + Society 5(2): 1–15. DOI: 10.1177/2056305119846486.
• R. Rogers (2019). Doing Digital Methods . London: Sage.
• A. Helmond, D.B. Nieborg & F.N. van der Vlist (2019). Facebook’s evolution: development of a platform-as-infrastructure. Internet Histories 3(2): 123–146. DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2019.1593667.
• S. Niederer & G. Colombo (2019). Visual Methodologies for Networked Images: Designing Visualizations for Collaborative Research, Cross-platform Analysis, and Public Participation. Diseña (14), 40-67. Doi: 10.7764/disena.14.40-67
• R. Rogers & S. Lewthwaite (2019). Teaching Digital Methods: An Interview with Richard Rogers. Interviewer: Sarah Lewthwaite. Diseña (14), 12-37, https://doi.org/10.7764/diseña.14.12-37.

2018

• W. Pearce, S. Niederer, S.M. Özkula, N. Sánchez Querubín (2018). The social media life of climate change: Platforms, publics, and future imaginaries. WIREs Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.569
• D.B. Nieborg & A. Helmond (2018). The political economy of Facebook’s platformization in the mobile ecosystem: Facebook Messenger as a platform instance. Media, Culture & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443718818384
• S. Niederer (2018). Networked Images: Visual methodologies for the digital age. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.
• M. Dieter, C. Gerlitz, A. Helmond, N. Tkacz, F.N. van der Vlist, E.J.T. Weltevrede (2018). Store, interface, package, connection: Methods and propositions for multi-situated app studies. CRC Media of Cooperation Working Paper Series No. 4, Working Paper, 30 August. Collaborative Research Center ‘Media of Cooperation’, University of Siegen. Available at: https://bit.ly/wps1187-4.
• A. Helmond (2018). A Historiography of the Hyperlink: Periodizing the Web Through the Changing Role of the Hyperlink, in Niels Brügger and Ian Milligan (eds.), SAGE Handbook of Web History. London: Sage.
• D. Alinejad, L. I. Candidatu, M. Mevsimler, C. Minchilli, S. Ponzanesi, and F.N. van der Vlist (2018). Diaspora and mapping methodologies: Tracing transnational digital connections with ‘mattering maps’. Global Networks 19(1): 21–43. DOI: 10.1111/glob.12197.
• N. Sánchez-Querubín and R. Rogers (2018). “Connected routes: Migration studies with digital devices and platforms,” Social Media + Society.
• R. Rogers (2018). Otherwise Engaged: Social Media from Vanity Metrics to Critical Analytics, International Journal of Communication , 12, 450-472.
• R. Rogers (2018). Digital Methods for Cross-Platform Analysis, in Jean Burgess, Alice Marwick and Thomas Poell (eds.), SAGE Handbook of Social Media . London: Sage, 91-110.
• R. Rogers (2018). Periodizing web archiving: Biographical, event-based, national and autobiographical traditions, in Niels Brügger and Ian Milligan (eds.), SAGE Handbook of Web History. London: Sage.
  
• R. Rogers (2018). Issuecrawling: Building lists of URLs and mapping website networks, in Celia Lury, Rachel Fensham, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Sybille Lammes, Angela Last, Mike Michael and Emma Uprichard (eds.). Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Research Methods . London: Routledge.
• R. Rogers (2018). Aestheticizing Google Critique: A Twenty-Year Retrospective, Big Data & Society, online first 10 April.
• T. Bucher and A. Helmond (2018). “The Affordances of Social Media Platforms.” SAGE Handbook of Social Media . Ed. Jean Burgess, Thomas Poell, and Alice Marwick. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 233–253.

2017

• A. Helmond (2017). “Historical Website Ecology. Analyzing Past States of the Web Using Archived Source Code.” In Web 25: Histories from the First 25 Years of the World Wide Web. Ed. Niels Brügger. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, pp. 139–155.
• S. Niederer (2017). The Study of Networked Content: Five Considerations for Digital Research in the Humanities,’ in G. Schiuma & D. Carlucci (eds.), Big Data in the Arts and Humanities: Theory and Practice . Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press-Taylor & Francis Group, p. 89-100.
• R. Rogers (2017). Doing Web history with the Internet Archive: screencast documentaries. Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society. 1(1/2), 1-13. DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2017.1307542
• S. Kok and R. Rogers (2017). Rethinking migration in the digital age: transglocalization and the Somali diaspora. Global Networks. 17(1), 23-46. DOI: 10.1111/glob.12127.
• N. Sánchez-Querubín (2017). Webs and Streams – Mapping Issue Networks Using Hyperlinks, Hashtags and (Potentially) Embedded Content. In M.T. Schäfer, & K. van Es (Eds.), The Datafied Society: Studying Culture through Data (pp. 95-109). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
• R. Rogers (2017). Foundations of Digital Methods: Query Design. In M. T. Schäfer, & K. van Es (Eds.), The Datafied Society: Studying Culture through Data (pp. 75-94). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
• C. Pentzold, E. Weltevrede, M. Mauri, D. Laniado, A. Kaltenbrunner & E. Borra (2017). Digging Wikipedia: The Online Encyclopedia As a Digital Cultural Heritage Gateway and Site. Journal of Computation and Cultural Heritage , 10(1), 5:1–5:19. doi: 10.1145/3012285
• A. Helmond, D. B. Nieborg and F.N. van der Vlist (2017). The Political Economy of Social Data: A Historical Analysis of Platform–Industry Partnerships. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Media & Society (SMSociety ’17), Toronto, ON, Canada, July 28–30. New York, NY: ACM Press. DOI: 10.1145/3097286.3097324.
• F.N. van der Vlist (2017). Counter-Mapping Surveillance: A Critical Cartography of Mass Surveillance Technology After Snowden. Surveillance & Society 15(1): 137–157. DOI: 10.24908/ss.v15i1.5307.
• S. Milan and N. ten Oever (2017) " Coding and encoding rights in internet infrastructure". Internet Policy Review 6 (1). DOI: 10.14763/2017.1.442.
  
  

2016

• R. Rogers (2016). "O fim do virtual: os métodos digitais," Lumina. 10(3).
• R. Rogers (2016). Metodi digitali: Fare ricerca sociale con il web . Bologna: Il Mulino.
• D. Taibi, Rogers, R., Marenzi, I., Nejdl, W., Ahmad, Q. A. I., & Fulantelli, G. (2016). Search As Research Practices on the Web: The SaR-Web Platform for Cross-language Engine Results Analysis. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Web Science. (pp. 367-369). New York: ACM. DOI: 10.1145/2908131.2908201.
• S. Milan and L. van der Velden. 2016. “ The Alternative Epistemologies of Data Activism.” Digital Culture & Society 2 (2): 57–74.
• C. Gerlitz, F.N. van der Vlist, A. Helmond, and E. Weltevrede (2016). App support ecologies: An empirical investigation of app-platform relations. In: Infrastructures of Publics – Publics of Infrastructures, First Annual Conference 2016 of the DFG Collaborative Research Centre 1187 ‘Media of Cooperation,’ Artur-Woll-Haus, University of Siegen, Germany, December 8–10.
• S. Niederer (2016). Networked Content Analysis: The case of climate change. Ph.D. Dissertation, Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam.
• B. Rieder (2016). “ Scrutinizing an Algorithmic Technique: The Bayes Classifier as Interested Reading of Reality.” Information, Communication & Society 0.0: 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1181195.
• F.N. van der Vlist (2016). Accounting for the Social: Investigating Commensuration and Big Data Practices at Facebook. Big Data & Society 3(1): 1–16. DOI: 10.1177/2053951716631365.
• E. Weltevrede and E. Borra (2016). “ Platform affordances and data practices: The value of dispute on Wikipedia.” Big Data & Society 3(1).
• S. Niederer and R. Priester (2016). Smart Citizens. Exploring the tools of the urban bottom-up movement. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. DOI 10.1007/s10606-016-9249-6.
• S. Niederer (2016). Introduction: Objects of Citizen Participation, in Denecke, M., Ganzert, A., Otto, I., & Stock, R. (Eds.), ReClaiming Participation. Technology, Mediation, Collectivity, Bielefeld: Transcript, 13-17.
• E. Weltevrede (2016). Repurposing digital methods. The research affordances of platforms and engines. Ph.D. Dissertation, Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam.

2015

• S. Niederer, G. Colombo, M. Mauri, and M. Azzi (2015). Street-level City Analytics. Hybrid Cities III: Data to the people , Conference Proceedings, Athens: University of Athens.
• D. M. Berry, E. Borra, A. Helmond, J.-C. Plantin, and J.W. Rettberg. The Data Sprint Approach: Exploring the field of Digital Humanities through Amazon’s Application Programming Interface. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 9(4), 2015.
• A. Helmond (2015). The Web as Platform: Data Flows in Social Media. Ph.D. Dissertation, Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam.
• N. Marres and C. Gerlitz, “Les méthodes d’interface : Une renégociation des liens entre recherche numérique, STS et sociologie”, In Severo, Marta et Romele, Alberto (éd.), Traces numériques et Territoires, collection Territoires Numériques, Paris: Presses des Mines.
• A. Helmond. "The Platformization of the Web: Making Web Data Platform Ready." Social Media + Society, 1(2), 2015.
• S. Niederer and R. Taudin Chabot. Deconstructing the Cloud: Responses to Big Data phenomena from social sciences, humanities and the arts, Big Data & Society, 2(2), 2015.
• N. Marres and C. Gerlitz. Interface Methods, The Sociological Review, 2015.
• R. Rogers, N. Sanchez and A. Kil. Issue Mapping for an Ageing Europe. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2015. Open access book download!
• R. Rogers, "Dépasser la critique des Big Data: la recherche en sciences politiques et sociales à l’ère du numérique", in Severo, Marta et Romele, Alberto (éd.), Traces numériques et Territoires, collection Territoires Numériques, Paris: Presses des Mines, 2015, 13-32.
• R. Rogers. Digitale Methoden fuer Webforschung. In Malte Hagener & Vinzenz Hediger (Eds.), Medienkultur und Bildung: Ästhetische Erziehung im Zeitalter digitaler Netzwerke. Frankfurt: Campus, 2015, 111-132.
• R. Rogers, “Digital Methods for Web Research,” in Robert A. Scott and Stephen M. Kosslyn (eds.), Emerging Trends in the Behavioral and Social Sciences. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2015.
• E. Borra, D. Laniado, E. Weltevrede, M. Mauri, G. Magni, T. Venturini, P. Ciuccarelli, R. Rogers, and A. Kaltenbrunner. A Platform for Visually Exploring the Development of Wikipedia Articles, ICWSM '15 - Proceedings of the 9th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2015.
• E. Borra, E. Weltevrede, P. Ciuccarelli, A. Kaltenbrunner, D. Laniado, G. Magni, M. Mauri, R. Rogers, and T. Venturini. Societal Controversies in Wikipedia Articles, CHI '15 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2015, 193-196.
• B. Rieder, R. Abdulla, T. Poell, R. Woltering, and L. Zack. Data critique and analytical opportunities for very large Facebook Pages: Lessons learned from exploring "We are all Khaled Said", Big Data & Society, 2(2), 2015.
• R. Woltering, R. Abdulla, T. Poell, B. Rieder, and L. Zack. A Page and Its Politics: Situating Kullinā Khālid Saʿīd in Egypt’s Ideological Landscape at the Time of Revolution, Cyberorient, 9(2), 2015.
• T. Poell, R. Abdullah, B. Rieder, R. Woltering, and L. Zack. Protest leadership in the age of social media, Information, Communication & Society, 2015.

2014

• E. Borra, E. Weltevrede, P. Ciuccarelli, A. Kaltenbrunner, D. Laniado, G. Magni, M. Mauri, R. Rogers & T. Venturini. " Contropedia – the analysis and visualization of controversies in Wikipedia articles." In Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym 2014). New York: ACM, 2014, 2014:34.
• L. Van der Velden. “ The Third Party Diary: Tracking the Trackers on Dutch Governmental Websites.” NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies 3.1 (2014): 195–217.
• Gerlitz, C. and Lury, C. " Social media and self-evaluating assemblages: on numbers, orderings and values." Distinktion. Special Issue on ‘Number ecologies : numbers and numbering practices’, 2014.
• Paßmann, J. and Gerlitz, C. " ‘Good’ platform political reasons for ‘bad’ platform data." Zur sozio-technischen Geschichte der Plattformaktivitäten Fav, Retweet und Like. Mediale Kontrolle, 3(1), 2014.
• Gerlitz, C. and Rieder B. "Data–Mining von einem Prozent Twitter – Sammlungen, Basislinien, Stichproben. In: Reichert, Ramon. Big Data Reader. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. p 203-220.
• Marres, N. and Gerlitz, C. " Interface Methods. On some confluences between Sociology, STS and digital research." Working Paper.
• R. Rogers, "Nach dem Cyberspace: Big Data, Small Data," in R. Reichert (ed.). Big Data: Analysen zum digitalen Wandel von Wissen, Macht und Ökonomie. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2014, 173-187.
• E. Weltevrede, A. Helmond, and C. Gerlitz. “ The Politics of Real-Time: A Device Perspective on Social Media Platforms and Search Engines.” Theory, Culture & Society, June 2014, doi:10.1177/0263276414537318.
• R. Rogers, " Political Research in the Digital Age," International Public Policy Review, 8(1), 2014, 73-87.
• S. Niederer and J. van Dijck, "Wisdom of the crowd or technicity of content? Wikipedia as a sociotechnical System," in Matthew David and Peter Millward (eds.). Researching Society Online. London: Sage, forthcoming 2014.
• E. Borra and B. Rieder, " Programmed Method. Developing a Toolset for Capturing and Analyzing Tweets," Aslib Journal of Information Management, 66(3), pp.262-278, 2014.
• R. Rogers. " Foreword: Debanalising Twitter: The Transformation of an Object of Study," in Katrin Weller, Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Merja Mahrt and Cornelius Puschmann (eds.). Twitter & Society. New York: Peter Lang, 2014, xi-xxvii.

2013

• R. Rogers, Digital Methods, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013.
• B. Rieder, " Studying Facebook via Data Extraction: The Netvizz Application," Proceedings of ACM Web Science 2013, 2013.
• A. Helmond, "The Algorithmization of the Hyperlink," Computational Culture, Issue 3, November 2013.
• S. Niederer, " 'Global warming is not a crisis!': Studying climate change skepticism on the web," Necsus, Vol. 3, Spring, June 2013.
• T. Baetens, T. Juetten, J. Maessen, E. Borra and R. Rogers, De Uitzondering op de Regel: Over Ambtenaren in de Openbaarheid. The Hague: Min BZK / Emma Communicatie, June 2013.
• H. Huurdeman, A. Ben-David and T. Sammar, “Sprint Methods for Web Archive Research”, in Proceedings of ACM Web Science 2013, Paris, May 2013.
• R. Rogers, "Debanalizing Twitter: The Transformation of an Object of Study," Proceedings of ACM Web Science 2013, Paris, May 2013.
• R. Rogers, “Koniec wirtualnosci - metody cyfrowe,” (trans. Aleksandra Różycka), Prace Kulturoznawcze XV. Wroclaw: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego, 2013, 313-340.
• C. Gerlitz and B. Rieder, " Mining One Percent of Twitter: Collections, Baselines, Sampling" M/C Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2, May 2013.
• I. Weber, V.R.K. Garimella and E.K. Borra. " Inferring audience partisanship for YouTube videos," in Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web companion (WWW'13 Companion). International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee, Republic and Canton of Geneva, Switzerland, 43-44, May 2013.
• C. Gerlitz and A. Helmond, " The Like Economy: Social buttons and the data-intensive web,” New Media & Society. Online First, 4 February 2013.
• R. Rogers, E. Weltevrede, S. Niederer and E.K. Borra, “National Web Studies: The Case of Iran Online,” in J. Hartley, A. Bruns, and J. Burgess (eds.), A Companion to New Media Dynamics , Oxford: Blackwell, 2013, 142-166.
• N. Marres and E. Weltevrede, " Scraping the Social? Issues in real-time social research," Journal of Cultural Economy, Online First, 22 February 2013.
• R. Rogers, “Internet Research: The Question of Method,” in: Christine Hine (ed.), Virtual Research Methods. London: Sage, 2013, 337-364.
• R. Rogers and N. Marres, “Landscaping Climate Change: A Mapping Technique for Understanding Science and Technology Debates on the World Wide Web,” in: Christine Hine (ed.), Virtual Research Methods. London: Sage, 2013, 213-238.

2012

• R. Rogers and E. Sendijarevic, "Neutral or National Point of View? A Comparison of Srebrenica Articles across Wikipedia's Language Versions," Paper presented at Wikipedia Academy 2012, Berlin, Germany, June 29 - July 1, 2012.
• R. Rogers, "Mapping and the Politics of Web Space," Theory, Culture & Society, 29 (4/5), 2012, 193-219.
• A. Ben-David. "The Palestinian Diaspora on the Web: Between de-territorialization and re-territorialization," Social Science Information, 51, 4, December 2012.
• I. Weber, V.R.K. Garimella and E.K. Borra. " Political search trends," in Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1012-1012, 2012
• I. Weber, V.R.K. Garimella and E.K. Borra. " Mining Web Query Logs to Analyze Political Issues," Proceedings of ACM Web Science 2012, 2012. Accompanying tool online at Political Search Trends, Yahoo! labs.
• E.K. Borra and I. Weber. " Political Insights: Exploring partisanship in Web search queries," First Monday. 17, 7, July 2012.
• R. Rogers, E. Weltevrede, S. Niederer and E.K. Borra, “National Web Studies: Mapping Iran Online," Iran Media Program, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, February, 2012.
• E. Weltevrede and A. Helmond, "Where do bloggers blog? Platform transitions within the historical Dutch blogosphere," First Monday. 17, 2, February, 2012.
• T. Poell and E.K. Borra. Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr as platforms of alternative journalism: the social media account of the 2010 Toronto G20 protests.Journalism, 2012.
• B. Rieder and T. Röhle, "Digital Methods: Five Challenges," in: D. M. Berry (ed.), Understanding Digital Humanities. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 67-84.
• B. Rieder, " The Refraction Chamber: Twitter as Sphere and Network," First Monday. 17, 11, November 2012
• B. Rieder and N. Smyrnaios " Pluralisme et infomédiation sociale de l’actualité: Le cas de Twitter," Reseaux. 176, December 2012

2011

• R. Rogers and N. Marres, “Landscaping Climate Change: A Mapping Technique for Understanding Science and Technology Debates on the World Wide Web,” in: Lindsay Prior (ed.), Using Documents and Records in Social Research. Vol. 4. London: Sage, 2011, forthcoming. (reprint of 2000 article)
• R. Rogers, "Das Ende des Virtuellen: Digitale Methoden." Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. 2, 5, 2011, 61-77.
• R. Rogers, "After Cyberspace: Data-rich Media Online," Paper presented at MiT7. Unstable Platforms: The Promise and Peril of Transition, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 13-15 May 2011.

2010

• S. Niederer and J. van Dijck, " Wisdom of the Crowd or Technicity of Content? Wikipedia as Socio-technical System," New Media & Society, 12, 8, 2010, 1368-1387.
• A. Ben-David, "La Palestine et ses frontières virtuelles 2.0: Du « non-lieu » à l’espace généré par les utilisateurs." Réseaux, 159, 1, 2010, 151-179. ( Abstract).
• R. Rogers and A. Ben-David, "Coming to Terms: A conflict analysis of the usage, in official and unofficial sources, of 'security fence,' 'apartheid wall,' and other terms for the structure between Israel and the Palestinian Territories," Media, Conflict & War, 2, 3, 2010, 202-229.
• R. Rogers, "Mapping Public Web Space with the Issuecrawler," in: Claire Brossard and Bernard Reber (eds.), Digital Cognitive Technologies: Epistemology and Knowledge Society. London: Wiley, 2010, 115-126.
• R. Rogers, "Post-demografisch onderzoek: voorbij het doelgroepdenken." De Gids, 3, 2010, 344-355.
• S. Niederer, “Cultuur volgens Wikipedia,” De Gids, 3, 2010, 367-369.
• R. Rogers, "Internet Research: The Question of Method," Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 7, 2/3, 2010, 241-260.

2009

• R. Rogers, The End of the Virtual: Digital Methods, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009. (38p) [ pdf]
• R. Rogers, F. Jansen, M. Stevenson and E. Weltevrede, "Mapping Democracy," Global Informaton Society Watch 2009, Association for Progressive Communications and Hivos, 2009, 47-57. pdf]
• R. Rogers, "Post-demographic Machines," in: Annet Dekker and Annette Wolfsberger (eds.), Walled Garden. Amsterdam: Virtueel Platform, 2009, 29-39.
• A. Helmond, “Lifetracing. The Traces of a Networked Life.” Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art). 2 July 2009. Available online: http://helmond.networkedbook.org/
• M. Stevenson and R. Rogers, "Digital Methods: First Steps," EASST Review, 28, 2, 2009, 4-6.
• E. Weltevrede, Thinking Nationally With the Web. A Medium-specific Approach to the National Turn in Web Archiving. Master Thesis, Media Studies University of Amsterdam, 2009.
• R. Rogers, "The Googlization Question, and the Inculpable Engine," in K. Becker and F. Stalder (eds.), Deep Search: The Politics of Search Engines beyond Google, Edison, NJ: Transaction, 2009, 173-184.
• R. Rogers, "Zur Frage der Vergoogelung: hin zu einer unkritisierbaren Machine?" In K. Becker & F. Stalder (eds.), Deep search: Politik des Suchens jenseits von Google, Studien Verlag: Innsbruck, 2009, 193-206.
• R. Rogers, "The Internet Treats Censorship as a Malfunction and Routes around it? A New Media Approach to the Study of State Internet Censorship," in J. Parikka and T. Sampson (eds.), The Spam Book: On Viruses, Porn, and Other Anomalies from the Dark Side of Digital Culture, Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2009, 229-247.

2008

• N. Marres and R. Rogers, "Subsuming the Ground: How Local Realities of the Ferghana Valley, Narmada Dams and BTC Pipeline are put to use on the Web," Economy & Society, 37, 2, 2008, 251-281.
• R. Rogers and A. Ben-David, "The Palestinian-Israeli peace process and trans-national issue networks: the complicated place of the Israeli NGO," New Media & Society, 10, 1, 2008, 41-72.

Pre-2008

• Burgess_et al_Chp05_Final.pdf: Rogers Digital Methods for Cross-Platform Analysis