Dear CITAMS Colleagues, I'm writing to invite you to an experimental "twitter book club" starting now and running this week. It is a format my university is trying out. I foolishly promise an overview of ALL OF DIGITAL RESEARCH METHODS in one chapter. To participate, read the free book chapter (PDF linked below) then tweet questions/comments that include the #umsibookclub hashtag in the next two days. There is also a period with live interaction with the author (me) if you choose, but you can also participate asynchronously. This is the university's second attempt at this format. I was a reader for the first attempt and I found it to be a little bit like a new sport, as the questions/comments and the author responses must all be tweets (limited to 140 characters). It's quite a challenge! My favorite tweet last time was: @kentarotoyama @niftyc Latour: 4 things wrong with ANT: "actor" "network" "theory" and hyphen! :-p #umsibookclub Anyhow, it was a fun way to motivate myself to read something new. This occasion might be useful if you are considering assigning this book in an upcoming research methods class. I hope some of you are interested! The details: THIS WEEK UMSI Social Media Book Club: "How to Think about Digital Research" (free reading: Digital Research Confidential, chapter 1) with Christian Sandvig https://www.si.umich.edu/events/201608/umsi-social-media-book-club Hoping to see you "there", Christian