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New online technologies have brought with them a great promise of freedom. The computer and particularly the Internet have been represented as enabling technologies, turning consumers into users and users into producers. Furthermore, lay people and amateurs have been enthusiastically greeted as heroes of the digital era. This thoughtful study casts a fresh light on the shaping of user participation in the context of, among others, popular discourse in and around new media.Schäfer's groundbreaking research into hacking, fan communities and Web 2.0 applications demonstrates how the dynamic of innovation, control and interaction have shifted the boundaries of the traditional culture industry into the user domain. The media industry undergoes a shift from creating content to providing platforms for user driven social interactions and user-generated content. In this extended culture industry, participation unfolds not only in the co-creation of media content and software-based products, but also in the development and defense of distinctive media practices that represent a socio-political understanding of new technologies. - Nieuwe online technologieën brengen een grote belofte van bevrijding met zich mee. Leken en amateurs worden enthousiast als helden van het digitale tijdperk omhelsd. In dit boek analyseert Mirko Tobias Schäfer hoe de participatie van gebruikers daadwerkelijk vorm krijgt door deze in de context te bestuderen van onder meer het populaire discours rondom nieuwe media. Schäfer laat met behulp van onderzoek naar hackers, fancommunities en Web 2.0-applicaties zien hoe de dynamiek van innovatie, controle en interactie zorgt voor een uitbreiding van de traditionele cultuurindustrie naar het domein van de gebruikers.

As more and more aspects of everyday life are turned into machine-readable data, researchers are provided with rich resources for researching society. The novel methods and innovative tools to work with this data not only require new knowledge and skills, but also raise issues concerning the practices of investigation and publication. This book critically reflects on the role of data in academia and society and challenges overly optimistic expectations considering data practices as means for understanding social reality. It introduces its readers to the practices and methods for data analysis and visualization and raises questions not only about the politics of data tools, but also about the ethics in collecting, sifting through data, and presenting data research. Karin van Es & Mirko Tobias Schäfer: Introduction: New Brave World Section 1: Studying Culture through Data Eef Masson: Humanistic Data Research: An Encounter between Epistemic Traditions Christian Gosvig Olesen: Towards a 'Humanistic Cinemetrics'? Lev Manovich: Cultural Analytics, Social Computing and Digital Humanities Daniel Goddemeyer et al.: Case Study: On Broadway Richard Rogers: Foundations of Digital Methods: Query Design Natalia Sánchez-Querubín: Case Study: Webs and Streams – Mapping Issue Networks Using Hyperlinks, Hashtags and (Potentially) Embedded Content Section 2: Data Practices in Digital Data Analysis Bernhard Rieder & Theo Röhle: Digital Methods: From Challenges to Bildung William Uricchio: Data, Culture and the Ambivalence of Algorithms Johannes Paßmann & Asher Boersma: Unknowing Algorithms: On Transparency of Unopenable Black Boxes Cornelius Puschmann & Julian Ausserhofer: Social Data APIs: Origin, Types, Issues Tommaso Venturini et al.: How to Tell Stories with Networks: Exploring the Narrative Affordances of Graphs with the Iliad Karin van Es et al.: Towards a Reflexive Digital Data Analysis Section 3: Research Ethics Gerwin van Schie et al.: Get Your Hands Dirty: Emerging Data Practices as Challenge for Research ...