The SAGE handbook of online research methods /
Online research methods
edited by Nigel G. Fielding, Raymond M. Lee and Grant Blank.
- xvi, 370 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Internet as a Research Medium -- The Internet as a Research Medium: An Editorial Introduction to The Sage Handbook of Online Research Methods / Designing Internet Research -- The Ethics of Internet Research / Understanding and Managing Legal Issues in Internet Research / Research Design and Tools for Internet Research / General Approaches to Data Quality and Internet-generated Data / Data Capture Using the Internet -- Middleware for Distributed Data Management / Distilling Digital Traces: Computational Social Science Approaches to Studying the Internet / Analyzing Social Networks via the Internet / Nonreactive Data Collection on the Internet / The Internet Survey -- Overview: Online Surveys / Sampling Methods for Web and E-mail Surveys / Internet Survey Design / Internet Survey Software Tools / Virtual Ethnography -- Virtual Ethnography: Modes, Varieties, Affordances / Internet-based Interviewing / Online Focus Groups / Fieldnotes in Public: Using Blogs for Research / Research Uses of Multi-user Virtual Environments / Distributed Video Analysis in Social Research / The Internet as an Archival Resource -- The Provision of Access to Quantitative Data for Secondary Analysis / Secondary Qualitative Analysis Using Internet Resources / Finding and Investigating Geographical Data Online / Data Mining, Statistical Data Analysis, or Advanced Analytics: Methodology, Implementation, and Applied Techniques / Artificial Intelligence and the Internet / The Future of Social Research on the Internet -- Longitudinal Statistical Modelling on the Grid / Qualitative e-Social Science /Cyber-Research / New Cartographies of 'Knowing Capitalism' and the Changing Jurisdictions of Empirical Sociology / The Internet and the Future of Social Science Research / Online Research Methods and Social Theory / Raymond M. Lee, Nigel Fielding, Grant Blank -- Rebecca Eynon, Jenny Fry, Ralph Schroeder -- Andrew Charlesworth -- Claire Hewson, Dianna Laurent -- Karsten Boye Rasumussen -- Alvaro A. A. Fernandes -- Howard T. Welser, Marc Smith, Danyel Fisher, Eric Gleave -- Bernie Hogan -- Dietmar Janetzko -- Vasja Vehovar, Katja Lozar Manfreda -- Ronald D. Fricker, Jr -- Samuel J. Best, Brian S. Krueger -- Lars Kaczmirek -- Christine Hine -- Henrietta O'Connor, Clare Madge, Robert Shaw, Jane Wellens -- Ted J. Gaiser -- Nina Wakeford, Kris Cohen -- Ralph Schroeder, Jeremy Bailenson -- Jon Hindmarsh -- Keith Cole, Jo Wathan, Louise Corti -- Patrick Carmichael -- David Martin, Samantha Cockings, Samuel Leung -- Bert Little, Michael Schucking -- Edward Brent -- Rob Crouchley, Rob Allan -- Nigel Fielding, Raymond M. Lee -- Michael Hardey, Roger Burrows -- Michael Fischer, Stephen Lyon, David Zeitlyn -- Grant Blank. Section 1. 1. Section 2. 2. 3. 4. 5. Section 3. 6. 7. 8. 9. Section 4. 10. 11. 12. 13. Section 5. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. Section 6. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. Section 7. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29.