Intro -- Foreword to 'Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research' -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- EDITOR Biography -- Chapter 1: An Introduction to Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research -- Where We Are and Where We Want to Go -- The Structure of the Book -- References -- Part I: Materiality -- Chapter 2: Engaging (Past) Participants: The Case of radicalprintshops.org -- Someone Should Do a History Before We All Die -- Problem Context No. 1 -- Problem Context No. 2 -- Setting Up the Wiki -- Challenge No. 1 -- Challenge No. 2 -- Challenge No. 3 -- Under Maintenance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: A Materialist Media Ecological Approach to Studying Urban Media in/of Place -- Methodological Orientations of Existing Research on Urban Places -- A Comparative Approach to the Study of Site-Specific Media -- Actor-Network Theory and the Inclusion of Non-Human Actors in the Making of Place -- Locative and Place-Based Media Experiments -- Materialist Media Ecologies -- Naïve Experimentation as Method -- Instagram as a Way of Seeing the City -- The North Kelvin Meadow Campaign -- @ilovenorthkelvinmeadow: An Ambivalent Revaluation and Failed Politicization of Place via Instagram -- Learning from the Surprises and Failures of a Naïve Experimentation with Instagram -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Socio-spatial Approaches for Media and Communication Research -- Socio-spatial Attributes of the Digital Realm -- Merging the Approaches of Socio-spatial and Media Research -- Approaching the Digital Realm as a Place of Memory -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Technology -- Chapter 5: Neither Black Nor Box: Ways of Knowing Algorithms -- Revisiting the Black-Boxed 'Nature' of Algorithms -- Ways of Knowing Algorithms: Three Steps to Consider.

Step One: Do Not Fear the Black Box -- Step Two: Do Not Expect the Solution to Be Inside the Black Box -- Step Three: Consider the 'Boxing' of the Box -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Sketching Bitcoin: Empirical Research of Digital Affordances -- Bitcoin and Social Science Research -- Building a Map of the Bitcoin Network -- A Glimpse of the Bitcoin Ecosystem -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Beyond Blobology: Using Psychophysiological Interaction Analyses to Investigate the Neural Basis of Human Communication Phenomena -- How Does fMRI Work and What Sort of Questions Can It Address? -- What Is Connectivity and Why Does It Matter? -- Neural Connectivity -- Psychophysiological Interactions -- ROI Selection -- Time Series Extraction -- Defining a GLM -- Other Considerations -- PPI Utility -- Concluding Remarks and Future Directions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8: As We Should Think? Lifelogging as a Re-emerging Method -- Bush's Legacy: An Alternative Way to Deal with Complexity -- The Rise of the Wearable Computer Paradigm -- Stepping Back from Criticism and Neglect: A Look at Lifelogging as an Alternative Method -- Rosetta Stoning -- An Earlier History of Lifelogging -- How to Conduct Lifelogging Research -- Step 1: Get Aware -- Step 2: Get Digital -- Step 3: Get Out -- Introducing My Personal Clavis Universalis -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Experience -- Chapter 9: Visual Ethnography and the City: On the Dead Ends of Reflexivity and Gentrification -- Reflexivity -- Filming Ourselves -- The Empty Political Orientation of Gentrification -- Grittiness: The Popular Reflexivity of Gentrification -- Studying Up, Producing Knowledge -- A Study of Development Media -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10: Exploring Inclusive Ethnography as a Methodology to Account for Multiple Experiences.

Ethnography in Media and Communication Research -- Inclusion, Exclusion, and Diversity in Communication Research -- Socially Situated Multi-media Ethnography -- Exploring Questions of Participation and Empowerment Through Ethnography -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: Interviewing Against the Odds -- Prior Work -- The Study of Mobile Media Practices -- Gaining Access -- Why Interview? -- One-to-One versus One-to-Many -- Gender, Caste, Class -- Mobile Data -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV: Visualization -- Chapter 12: Ways of Seeing Data: Toward a Critical Literacy for Data Visualizations as Research Objects and Research Devices -- An Example: Visualizing Information about Public Finances -- Three Forms of Mediation and How to Study Them -- From World to Data -- From Data to Image -- From Image to Eye -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 13: Urban Sensing: Potential and Limitations of Social Network Analysis and Data Visualization as Research Methods in Urban Studies -- Measuring Amplifies and Reduces -- Existing Work -- Urban Sensing and Its Experiments -- Reflections on the Potential and Limitations of Urban Sensing in Urban Studies -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 14: Mapping Topics in International Climate Negotiations: A Computer-Assisted Semantic Network Approach -- From Negotiations to Texts: Identifying a Source for Building a Textual Corpus Providing Proxy Access to the Negotiations -- From Texts to Diagrams: The Definition of a Text Analysis Strategy to Map Topics in the Negotiations -- Linguistic Processing and Lexical Extraction: Building a List of Terms Referring to Issues in the Negotiations -- Semantic Network Analysis: Eliciting, Visualizing, and Interpreting the Topic Structure of the Negotiations.

From Diagrams to Narrative Accounts: Visually Exploring the Negotiations' Topic Structuring and Deployment -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments Nicolas Baya-Laffite acted as the main author of the manuscript and Jean-Philippe Cointet contributed his methodological expertise to the chapter. Research presented in this chapter was done to contribute to the objectives of two resea -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 15: 'Creative' and Participatory Visual Approaches in Audience Research -- Visual Elicitation -- Card Sorting Techniques and Q-Sort Studies -- Drawing-Based Exercises in Interviews -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research: An Outlook -- A Methodological 'Advisory Register' -- A Provocative Outlook -- Note -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

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