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Digital Research Confidential

The Secrets of Studying Behavior Online
Buch | Hardcover
288 Seiten
2015
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-02988-9 (ISBN)
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Behind-the-scenes stories of how Internet research projects actually get done.

The realm of the digital offers both new methods of research and new objects of study. Because the digital environment for scholarship is constantly evolving, researchers must sometimes improvise, change their plans, and adapt. These details are often left out of research write-ups, leaving newcomers to the field frustrated when their approaches do not work as expected. Digital Research Confidential offers scholars a chance to learn from their fellow researchers' mistakes-and their successes.

The book-a follow-up to Eszter Hargittai's widely read Research Confidential-presents behind-the-scenes, nuts-and-bolts stories of digital research projects, written by established and rising scholars. They discuss such challenges as archiving, Web crawling, crowdsourcing, and confidentiality. They do not shrink from specifics, describing such research hiccups as an ethnographic interview so emotionally draining that afterward the researcher retreated to a bathroom to cry, and the seemingly simple research question about Wikipedia that mushroomed into years of work on millions of data points. Digital Research Confidential will be an essential resource for scholars in every field.

Contributors
Megan Sapnar Ankerson, danah boyd, Amy Bruckman, Casey Fiesler, Brooke Foucault Welles, Darren Gergle, Eric Gilbert, Eszter Hargittai, Brent Hecht, Aron Hsiao, Karrie Karahalios, Paul Leonardi, Kurt Luther, Virag Molnar, Christian Sandvig, Aaron Shaw, Michelle Shumate, Matthew Weber

Eszter Hargittai is Professor in the Communication Studies Department and Faculty Associate of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, where she heads the Web Use Project. She is the editor of Research Confidential. Christian Sandvig is Associate Professor in the Department of Communications Studies and the School of Information at the University of Michigan and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Christian Sandvig is Associate Professor in the Department of Communications Studies and the School of Information at the University of Michigan and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Eszter Hargittai is Professor in the Communication Studies Department and Faculty Associate of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, where she heads the Web Use Project. She is the editor of Research Confidential. Paul M. Leonardi is the Duca Family Professor of Technology Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Car Crashes without Cars (MIT Press). Brooke Foucault Welles is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University.

Reihe/Serie The MIT Press
Co-Autor Christian Sandvig, Eszter Hargittai, Megan Sapnar Ankerson
Zusatzinfo 19 figures, 5 tables; 24 Illustrations
Verlagsort Cambridge, Mass.
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Informatik Web / Internet
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-10 0-262-02988-X / 026202988X
ISBN-13 978-0-262-02988-9 / 9780262029889
Zustand Neuware
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