並列摘要
The growing popularity of digital media platforms in the past 30 years has provided rich data for social science research. Meanwhile, dealing with large-scale digital data facilitates the emergence of computational social science and other alternative methods, such as critical algorithm studies. In this special issue, we collected 6 articles to demonstrate how digital media could be used as data and methods in communication research. These articles collected data from Facebook, Twitter, discussion forums, and other news websites to explore the agenda dynamics in the recent Taiwan election, protests in Hong Kong, the role of social bots in agenda-setting, and information exchange between China experts on Twitter. In addition, this issue also presents examples of using digital archives and developing new computational methods.