Analysis of social media using digital methods is a flourishing approach. However, the
relatively easy availability of data collected via platform application programming interfaces …

Social media have become a significant part of contemporary visual culture (Duggan et al.,
2015). In the global north, we now encounter many kinds of visual data for much of our daily …

Visual content is a critical component of everyday social media, on platforms explicitly
framed around the visual (Instagram and Vine), on those offering a mix of text and images in …

Increasingly employed as an umbrella term for tool-based methods employed in the digital
humanities and e-social sciences, digital methods have as their point of departure a series …

Images have become a key vehicle for communicating climate change, especially in a
visually oriented social media ecosystem. However, few studies have examined the ways in …

We conducted a scoping review to identify and describe trends in the use of social media
images as data sources to inform social science research in published articles from 2015 to …

Two theoretical approaches have recently emerged to characterize new digital objects of
study in the media landscape: infrastructure studies and platform studies. Despite their …

In the few years since the advent of 'Big Data'research, social media analytics has begun to
accumulate studies drawing on social media as a resource and tool for research work. Yet …

We argue the descriptive fit and heuristic power of social media scholarship is much
increased when incorporating a comparative turn. To this end, we offer analytical categories …

User-generated visual media such as images and video shared on Instagram, YouTube and
Flickr open up fascinating opportunities for the study of digital visual culture and thinking …