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 Methods 2. Designing Online Research 3. Online Data Capture and Data Collection 4. The Online Survey 5. Digital Quantitative Analysis 6. Digital Text Analysis 7. Virtual Ethnography 8. Online Secondary Analysis: Resources and Methods 9. The Future of Online Social Research The 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.
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This best-selling handbook has been brought fully up-to-date with coverage of recent developments in the field including social media, big data, data visualization and CAQDAS.
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
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Online Research Methods are exploding in variety and importance. This new SAGE Handbook provides a much-needed comprehensive treatment of this dynamic and exciting field. From big data, semantic mining, AI, simulations, and visualizations to online focus groups,interviewing, ethnography, video-based research, and  much more besides, this volume has everything you need for a broad and deep exploration of the new world of research online.
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ISBN
9781473918788
Publisert
2016-12-28
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
SAGE Publications Ltd
Vekt
1360 gr
Høyde
246 mm
Bredde
174 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
684

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Nigel Fielding, BA (Sussex) MA (Kent) PhD (LSE), is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and a member of the Community of Experts of the European Science Foundation, and served on the Mixed Methods Research Association’s presidential task force on the future of mixed methods. His interests in research methodology include mixed methods, socio-spatial methods, qualitative software, interview methods, field observation, and digitally-mediated fieldwork. Nigel has authored/edited 27 books, many in research methodology, including The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, Sage, 2018 (second edition), with Grant Blank and Ray Lee. Raymond M. Lee is Emeritus Professor of Social Research Methods at Royal Holloway University of London. He has written extensively about a range of methodological topics. These include the problems and issues involved in research on ‘sensitive’ topics, research in physically dangerous environments, the use of unobtrusive measures, and the role of new technologies in the research process.  His current research focuses on the historical development of interviewing techniques. Grant Blank is Survey Research Fellow at Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford. He is a sociologist who studies the social and cultural impact of the Internet and other new communication media. He is also interested in cultural sociology, especially reviews and cultural evaluation.Grant began his career as an independent consultant based in Chicago Illinois specializing in research design, statistical analysis, and database design. He previously taught at American University in Washington DC. He completed his PhD on the sociology of reviews at the University of Chicago in 1999, and joined OII in 2010.