The SAGE handbook of online research methods / edited by Nigel G. Fielding, Raymond M. Lee and Grant Blank.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fielding, Nigel.

Lee, Raymond M., 1946-

Blank, Grant.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet research.

Social sciences--Research.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

xvi, 570 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Handbook of online research methods

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles ; London : SAGE, 2008.

Summary:

This handbook provides comprehensive coverage of contemporary and developing Internet and online social research methods, spanning both quantitative and qualitative research applications.

Contents:

Section I. The Internet as a research medium

Chapter 1: The Internet as a research medium: an editorial introduction to the Sage Handbook of Online Research Methods / Ray Lee, Nigel Fielding and Grant Blank.

Section II. Designing Internet research

Chapter 2: The Ethics of Internet research / Rebecca Eynon, Jenny Fry and Ralph Schroeder

Chapter 3: Understanding and Managing Legal Issues in Internet Research / Andrew Charlesworth

Chapter 4: Research design and tools for Internet research / Claire Hewson and Dianna Laurent

Chapter 5: General approaches to data quality and Internet generated data / Karsten Boye Rasmussen.

Section III. Data capture using the Internet

Chapter 6: Middleware for Distributed Data Management-Alvaro A.A. Fernandes

Chapter 7: Distilling Digital Traces: Computational social science approaches to studying the Internet / Ted Welser, Marc Smith, Danyel Fisher and Eric Gleave

Chapter 8: Analysing Social Networks via the Internet / Bernie Hogan

Chapter 9: Nonreactive Data Collection on the Internet / Dietmar Janetzko.

Section IV. The Internet survey

Chapter 10: Overview: online surveys / Vasja Vehovar and Katja Lozar Manfreda

Chapter 11: Sampling methods for Web and E-mail Surveys / Ronald Fricker

Chapter 12: Internet survey design / Samuel Best and Brian Krueger

Chapter 13: Internet survey software tools / Lars Kaczmirek.

Section V. Virtual ethnography

Chapter 14: Overview: Virtual ethnography: modes, varieties, affordances / Christine Hine

Chapter 15: Internet-based Interviewing / Henrietta O'Connor, Clare Madge, Robert Shaw, Jane Wellens

Chapter 16: Online focus groups / Ted Gaiser

Chapter 17: Fieldnotes in public: using blogs for research / Nina Wakeford and Kris Cohen

Chapter 18: Research Uses of Multi-user Virtual Environments / Ralph Schroeder and Jeremy Bailenson

Chapter 19: Distributed Video Analysis in Social Research / Jon Hindmarsh.

Section VI. The Internet as an archival resource

Chapter 20: The Provision of Access to Quantitative Data for Secondary Analysis / Keith Cole, Louise Corti and Jo Wathan

Chapter 21: Secondary Qualitative Analysis using Internet Resources / Patrick Carmichael

Chapter 22: Finding and Investigating Geographical Data Online / David Martin, Samantha Cockings and Samuel Leung

Chapter 23: Data Mining, Statistical Data Analysis, or Advanced Analytics: Methodology, Implementation, and Applied Techniques / Bert Little and Michael Schucking

Chapter 24: Artificial Intelligence and the Internet-Ed Brent.

Section VII. The future of social research on the Internet

Chapter 25: Longitudinal Statistical Modelling on the Grid / Rob Crouchley and Rob Allan

Chapter 26: Qualitative e-Social Science/Cyber-research / Nigel Fielding and Ray Lee

Chapter 27: New Cartographies of 'Knowing Capitalism' and the Changing Jurisdictions of Empirical Sociology / Michael Hardey and Roger Burrows

Chapter 28: The Internet and the Future of Social Science Research / Mike Fischer, Stephen Lyon and David Zeitlyn (Kent)

Chapter 29: Online Research Methods and Social Theory / Grant Blank

Section VIII

Glossary of Key Terms.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1412922933

9781412922937

OCLC:

214308663