This chapter argues for the importance of the researcher-toolmaker as a key figure in the field of digital and computational social science and humanities. It emphasizes that the researcher-toolmaker, someone who both conducts research and develops tools, brings a unique perspective that is...

This chapter tackles the issue of how toolmaking is valued within academia. It argues that the operational work of maintaining tools is often overlooked, which creates a hidden labor problem for toolmakers. This chapter explains why it is hard to get funding and academic credit for tool...

Computational SSH research paradigms have introduced new challenges for the realisation of data-subject privacy. Ensuring the privacy of subjects is a key concern in research ethics. This chapter details some of the privacy challenges computational SSH raises in the context of research ethics...

For researchers in the social sciences and humanities, the digital data revolution has primarily been about data—its scale, variety, and granularity. The theoretical opportunities presented by these new data sources, however, have often been backgrounded. Digital trace data are generated for...

The article develops the notion of online groundedness, which refers to the internet as the site of the baseline when making findings about societal and cultural trends. It does so by historicising the study of online data. Where they were once considered as originating from the virtual for the...

Nowadays, when talking about Artificial Intelligence (AI), we mostly refer to methods of Machine Learning (ML). Whereas these technologies have a huge potential, there are also risks and limitations, including the reflection of societal biases. This chapter discusses the term bias from different...

The computational turn and its associated methodologies have transformed media and communication research, impacting how scholars examine media impact and media effects, including the theoretical and methodological frameworks that are best applied to the analysis of digital datasets. This...

In this chapter, I chart the emergence of researchers’ growing interest in digital food media, digital food cultures and digital food activism and show how these studies have contributed to the formation of the subfield of digital food studies. I provide an overview of the variety of research...

In this chapter, we explore how contemporary developments in financial markets necessitate new methodological approaches for their study. Specifically, as an increasing volume of buy and sell orders for financial assets are processed through complex automated trading systems operating...

This chapter discusses methods and approaches for pursuing computational anthropology. We discuss how computational methods can be used in anthropological research to provide new approaches to data collection, such as from social media, as well as for new methods of analysis. Using two examples...