Simon Lindgren is Professor of Sociology at Umeå University in Sweden. He is also director of DIGSUM, an interdisciplinary academic research centre studying the social dimensions of digital technology, and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Digital Social Research.

His research is about the relationship between digital media and society with a particular focus on politics and power relations. He studies mobilisation and contention on the internet and the consequences of datafication and automation for such processes.

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An introduction to both the scope and potential of researching digital media and society and to the use and application of a range of popular methods for doing research.

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Researching Digital Media and Society
Mixing Methods
The Research Process
Digital Research Ethics
Digital Ethnography
Qualitative Text Analysis
Computational Text Analysis
Visual Analysis
Social Network Analysis
Platform Analysis