The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods (eBook)

Nigel G. G. Fielding, Raymond M. M. Lee, Grant Blank, Author (Herausgeber)

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2016 | 2., Second Edition
684 Seiten
Sage Publications (Verlag)
978-1-4739-5928-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Online research methods are popular, dynamic and fast-changing. Following on from the great success of the first edition, published in 2008, The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, Second Edition offers both updates of existing subject areas and new chapters covering more recent developments, such as social media, big data, data visualization and CAQDAS.Bringing together the leading names in both qualitative and quantitative online research, this new edition is organised into nine sections:1. Online Research Methods2. Designing Online Research3. Online Data Capture and Data Collection4. The Online Survey5. Digital Quantitative Analysis 6. Digital Text Analysis7. Virtual Ethnography8. Online Secondary Analysis: Resources and Methods9. The Future of Online Social ResearchThe SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, Second Edition is an essential resource for anyone interested in the contemporary practice of computer-mediated research and scholarship.

Inhalt

SECTION ONE - ONLINE RESEARCH METHODS
Chapter 01: Online Research Methods in the Social Sciences: An Editorial Introduction - Raymond M. Lee, Nigel G. Fielding, and Grant Blank
SECTION TWO – DESIGNING ONLINE RESEARCH
Chapter 02: The Ethics of Online Research - Rebecca Eynon, Jenny Fry and Ralph Schroeder
Chapter 03: Data Quality in Online Environments - Karsten Boye Rasmussen
SECTION THREE - ONLINE DATA CAPTURE AND DATA COLLECTION
Chapter 04: Research Design and Tools for Online Research - Claire Hewson
Chapter 05: Nonreactive Data Collection Online - Dietmar Janetzko
Chapter 06: What’s New? The Applications of Data Mining and Big Data in the Social Sciences - Ayelet Baram-Tsabari, Elad Segev and Aviv J. Sharon
Chapter 07: Of Instruments and Data: Social Media Uses, Abuses and Analysis - Martin Innes, Colin Roberts, Alun Preece and David Rogers
Chapter 08: “Big Social Science”: Doing Big Data in the Social Sciences - Jonathan Bright
SECTION FOUR – THE ONLINE SURVEY
Chapter 09: Overview: Online Surveys - Vasja Vehovar and Katja Lozar Manfreda
Chapter 10: Sampling Methods for Online Surveys - Ronald D. Fricker, Jr
Chapter 11: Online Survey Design - Vera Toepoel
Chapter 12: Online Survey Software - Lars Kaczmirek
Chapter 13: Improving the Effectiveness of Online Data Collection by Mixing Survey Modes - Don A. Dillman, Feng Hao and Morgan M. Millar
SECTION FIVE – DIGITAL QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS
Chapter 14: Online Social Networks: Concepts for Data Collection and Analysis - Bernie Hogan
Chapter 15: Scale, Time, and Activity Patterns: Advanced Methods for the Analysis of Online Networks - Javier Borge-Holthoefer & Sandra González-Bailón
Chapter 16: Social Simulation and Online Research Methods - Corinna Elsenbroich
Chapter 17: Games and Online Research Methods - Harko Verhagen, Magnus Johansson, Wander Jager
Chapter 18: Data visualisation as an emerging tool for online research - Helen Kennedy and William Allen
SECTION SIX – DIGITAL TEXT ANALYSIS
Chapter 19: Online Tools for Content Analysis - Roel Popping
Chapter 20: Sentiment Analysis for Small and Big Data - Mike Thelwall
Chapter 21: Artificial Intelligence/Expert Systems and Online Research - Edward Brent
Chapter 22: The Blogosphere - Nicholas Hookway and Helene Snee
SECTION SEVEN – VIRTUAL ETHNOGRAPHY
Chapter 23: Ethnographies of Online Communities and Social Media: Modes, Varieties, Affordances - Christine Hine
Chapter 24: Online Interviewing - Henrietta O’Connor and Clare Madge
Chapter 25: Online Focus Groups - Katie M. Abrams and Ted J. Gaiser
Chapter 26: Tools for Collaboration in Video-based Research - Jon Hindmarsh
Chapter 27: CAQDAS at a Crossroads: Affordances of Technology in an Online Environment - Christina Silver & Sarah L Bulloch
SECTION EIGHT – ONLINE SECONDARY ANALYSIS: RESOURCES AND METHODS
Chapter 28: Online access to Quantitative Data Resources - Louise Corti and Jo Wathan
Chapter 29: Secondary Qualitative Analysis Using Online Resources - Patrick Carmichael
Chapter 30: Finding and Investigating Geographical Data Online - David Martin, Samantha Cockings and Samuel Leung
Chapter 31: Mapping Spaces: Cartographic Representations of Online Data - Matthew Zook, Ate Poorthuis and Rich Donohue
SECTION NINE – THE FUTURE OF ONLINE SOCIAL RESEARCH
Chapter 32: Engaging Remote Marginalized Communities Using Appropriate Online Research Methods - Brian Beaton, David Perley, Chris George, Susan O’Donnell
Chapter 33: Web- and Phone-Based Data Collection Using Planned Missing Designs - William Revelle, David M. Condon, Joshua Wilt, Jason A. French, Ashley Brown and Lorien G. Elleman
Chapter 34: Social Cartography and ‘Knowing Capitalism’: Critical Reflections on Social Research and the Geo-Spatial Web - Harrison Smith, Michael Hardey, Mariann Hardey and Roger Burrows
Chapter 35: Online Environments and the Future of Social Science Research - Michael Fischer, Stephen Lyon and David Zeitlyn
Chapter 36: Online Research Methods and Social Theory - Grant Blank

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Datenbanken
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Schlagworte: Digital Data • digital focus group • Digital Research • Internet research • internet survey • online data • online focus group • online research • Online Survey • research method
• ISBN-10: 1-4739-5928-4 / 1473959284
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4739-5928-6 / 9781473959286