Research methods for digital discourse analysis: edited by Camilla Vásquez, London, UK, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022, 352 pp., $39.95 (paperback), ISBN: 9781350166837.

The book "Research Methods for Digital Discourse Analysis" edited by Camilla Vásquez provides insights into how online texts and digital practices shape and reflect our contemporary realities. It offers guidelines and examples for conducting rigorous, accurate, and ethical research using data from p...

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Publicado en:Critical Discourse Studies Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 379 - 382
Autor principal: Li, Yifei
Formato: Book Review
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd May2024
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Sumario:The book "Research Methods for Digital Discourse Analysis" edited by Camilla Vásquez provides insights into how online texts and digital practices shape and reflect our contemporary realities. It offers guidelines and examples for conducting rigorous, accurate, and ethical research using data from platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and online dating apps. The book is divided into two parts, with the first focusing on fundamental issues such as theory application, data sampling, and research ethics. The second part explores popular topics and approaches in digital discourse analysis, including multilingual analysis, multimodality, video data, cross-platform analysis, corpus linguistics, and ethnographic methods. The book features diverse perspectives and covers a wide range of platforms, topics, research designs, and discourse analysis approaches. While it provides a thorough depiction of digital discourse analysis, the book suggests that further attention and discussion should be given to multimodal critical discourse studies. Overall, this book is recommended for students and researchers new to analyzing digital discourse.