Positioning digital methods between digital humanities and computational social science

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v20i2p45-66

Mots-clés :

Digital Humanities, Computational Social Science, Digital Methods, Semantic Analysis, Research Infrastructures

Résumé

This paper compares digital humanities, computational social science, and digital methods by means of a scientometric analysis. Using topic modeling, co-occurrence analysis, and semantic similarity measures, it examines how these domains are organized around research objects, epistemological frameworks, and infrastructures. Analysis indicates that digital methods are semantically closer to digital humanities than to computational social science, supporting their interpretation as an epistemological framework that investigates platformized environments by means of platform-native objects, metrics, and infrastructures, while repositioning digital methods within contemporary methodological debates in media and communication studies.

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Biographies des auteurs

  • Alan Angeluci, Universidade de São Paulo

    Professor de Jornalismo e Cultura Digital no Departamento de Jornalismo e Editoração da Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo (ECA/USP). Fundou e coordena o grupo de pesquisa Smart Media & Users (smartmediausers.org). Suas pesquisas abordam epistemologias da pesquisa digital, plataformas digitais, jornalismo de dados, inteligência artificial e métodos digitais, com atenção às transformações da comunicação e da cultura associadas às tecnologias emergentes. Coordena o projeto Decodificando Fenômenos Infocomunicacionais do Brasil por Métodos Digitais, financiado pelo CNPq e FAPESP. Também traduziu para o português o livro Doing Digital Methods (Métodos Digitais na Prática), de Richard Rogers. 

  • Richard Rogers, Universidade de Amsterdã

    Professor de Novas Mídias e Cultura Digital, Estudos de Mídia e diretor da Iniciativa de Métodos Digitais (DMI), Laboratórios de Humanidades, Universidade de Amsterdã. É autor de Information Politics on the Web e Digital Methods (ambos publicados pela MIT Press), além de Doing Digital Methods (Sage). Organizou The Politics of Social Media Manipulation com Sabine Niederer e The Propagation of Misinformation in Social Media: A Cross-platform Analysis (ambos pela Amsterdam University Press). Também é organizador de Content Moderation across Social Media Platforms, com publicação em livro prevista pela Amsterdam University Press. Em coautoria com Tommaso Venturini, publicou Digital Methods: A Short Introduction (Polity, 2025). 

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2026-10-19

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Vol. 20 No 2 (2026)

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Angeluci, A., & Rogers, R. (2026). Positioning digital methods between digital humanities and computational social science. MATRIZes, 20(2), 45-66. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v20i2p45-66

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