TY - BOOK AU - Fielding,Nigel AU - Lee,Raymond M. AU - Blank,Grant TI - The SAGE handbook of online research methods SN - 1412922933 AV - ZA4228 .S34 2008 U1 - 025.04 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Los Angeles, London PB - SAGE KW - Internet research KW - Social sciences KW - Research N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Section 1; The Internet as a Research Medium --; 1; The Internet as a Research Medium: An Editorial Introduction to The Sage Handbook of Online Research Methods; Raymond M. Lee, Nigel Fielding, Grant Blank --; Section 2; Designing Internet Research --; 2; The Ethics of Internet Research; Rebecca Eynon, Jenny Fry, Ralph Schroeder --; 3; Understanding and Managing Legal Issues in Internet Research; Andrew Charlesworth --; 4; Research Design and Tools for Internet Research; Claire Hewson, Dianna Laurent --; 5; General Approaches to Data Quality and Internet-generated Data; Karsten Boye Rasumussen --; Section 3; Data Capture Using the Internet --; 6; Middleware for Distributed Data Management; Alvaro A. A. Fernandes --; 7; Distilling Digital Traces: Computational Social Science Approaches to Studying the Internet; Howard T. Welser, Marc Smith, Danyel Fisher, Eric Gleave --; 8; Analyzing Social Networks via the Internet; Bernie Hogan --; 9; Nonreactive Data Collection on the Internet; Dietmar Janetzko --; Section 4; The Internet Survey --; 10; Overview: Online Surveys; Vasja Vehovar, Katja Lozar Manfreda --; 11; Sampling Methods for Web and E-mail Surveys; Ronald D. Fricker, Jr --; 12; Internet Survey Design; Samuel J. Best, Brian S. Krueger --; 13; Internet Survey Software Tools; Lars Kaczmirek --; Section 5; Virtual Ethnography --; 14; Virtual Ethnography: Modes, Varieties, Affordances; Christine Hine --; 15; Internet-based Interviewing; Henrietta O'Connor, Clare Madge, Robert Shaw, Jane Wellens --; 16; Online Focus Groups; Ted J. Gaiser --; 17; Fieldnotes in Public: Using Blogs for Research; Nina Wakeford, Kris Cohen --; 18; Research Uses of Multi-user Virtual Environments; Ralph Schroeder, Jeremy Bailenson --; 19; Distributed Video Analysis in Social Research; Jon Hindmarsh --; Section 6; The Internet as an Archival Resource --; 20; The Provision of Access to Quantitative Data for Secondary Analysis; Keith Cole, Jo Wathan, Louise Corti --; 21; Secondary Qualitative Analysis Using Internet Resources; Patrick Carmichael --; 22; Finding and Investigating Geographical Data Online; David Martin, Samantha Cockings, Samuel Leung --; 23; Data Mining, Statistical Data Analysis, or Advanced Analytics: Methodology, Implementation, and Applied Techniques; Bert Little, Michael Schucking --; 24; Artificial Intelligence and the Internet; Edward Brent --; Section 7; The Future of Social Research on the Internet --; 25; Longitudinal Statistical Modelling on the Grid; Rob Crouchley, Rob Allan --; 26; Qualitative e-Social Science /Cyber-Research; Nigel Fielding, Raymond M. Lee --; 27; New Cartographies of 'Knowing Capitalism' and the Changing Jurisdictions of Empirical Sociology; Michael Hardey, Roger Burrows --; 28; The Internet and the Future of Social Science Research; Michael Fischer, Stephen Lyon, David Zeitlyn --; 29; Online Research Methods and Social Theory; Grant Blank ER -