Editing Designing Internet Research (Spring 2025) (section)

=== Tuesday April 15: Inductive Textual Analysis & Discourse Analysis ===

;Required Readings:

* DiMaggio, Paul, Manish Nag, and David Blei. 2013. “Exploiting Affinities between Topic Modeling and the Sociological Perspective on Culture: Application to Newspaper Coverage of U.S. Government Arts Funding.” ''Poetics'', 41 (6): 570–606. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2013.08.004. {{avail-free|http://www.theculturelab.umd.edu/uploads/1/4/2/2/14225661/exploitingaffinities_dimaggio.pdf}}
* Baumer, Eric P. S., David Mimno, Shion Guha, Emily Quan, and Geri K. Gay. 2017. “Comparing Grounded Theory and Topic Modeling: Extreme Divergence or Unlikely Convergence?” ''Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology'' 68 (6): 1397–1410. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23786. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23786}}
* Thurlow, Crispin. 2018. “Digital Discourse: Locating Language in New/Social Media.” In ''The SAGE Handbook of Social Media'', edited by Jean Burgess, Alice Marwick, and Thomas Poell, 135–45. London, UK: SAGE. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781473984066. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.4135/9781473984066}}
* Brock, André. 2018. “Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis.” ''New Media & Society'' 20 (3): 1012–30. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444816677532. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444816677532}}

;Optional Readings:
* Mitra, Ananda. 1999. “Characteristics of the WWW Text: Tracing Discursive Strategies.” ''Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication'' 5 (1): 0–0. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1083-6101.1999.tb00330.x. {{avail-free|https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1083-6101.1999.tb00330.x}}
* Bouvier, Gwen, and David Machin. 2018. “Critical Discourse Analysis and the Challenges and Opportunities of Social Media.” ''Review of Communication'' 18 (3): 178–92. https://doi.org/10.1080/15358593.2018.1479881. {{avail-uw|1=https://doi.org/10.1080/15358593.2018.1479881}}
* Roberts, Margaret E., Brandon M. Stewart, Dustin Tingley, Christopher Lucas, Jetson Leder-Luis, Shana Kushner Gadarian, Bethany Albertson, and David G. Rand. 2014. “Structural Topic Models for Open-Ended Survey Responses.” ''American Journal of Political Science'' 58 (4): 1064–82. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12103. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12103}}
* Törnberg, Anton, and Petter Törnberg. 2016. “Combining CDA and Topic Modeling: Analyzing Discursive Connections between Islamophobia and Anti-Feminism on an Online Forum.” ''Discourse & Society'' 27 (4): 401–22. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926516634546. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926516634546}}