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The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods

• Edited by: Nigel Fielding , Raymond M. Lee & Grant Blank
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Ltd
• Publication year: 2008
• Online pub date: January 01, 2011
• Discipline: Anthropology
• Methods: Internet research , Survey research
• DOI: https:// doi. org/10.4135/9780857020055
• Keywords: internet , internet , interviews , research methods , social research , surveying , surveys Show all Show less
• Print ISBN: 9781412922937
• Online ISBN: 9780857020055
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This handbook is the first to provide comprehensive, up-to-the-minute coverage of contemporary and developing Internet and online social research methods, spanning both quantitative and qualitative research applications. The editors have brought together leading names in the field of online research to give a thoroughly up to date, practical coverage, richly illustrated with examples. The chapters cover both methodological and procedural themes, offering readers a sophisticated treatment of the practice and uses of Internet and online research that is grounded in the principles of research methodology. Beginning with an examination of the significance of the Internet as a research medium, the book goes on to cover research design, data capture, online surveys, virtual ethnography, and the internet as an archival resource, and concludes by looking at potential directions for the future of Internet and online research. The SAGE Handbook of Internet and Online Research Methods will be welcomed by anyone interested in the contemporary practice of computer-mediated research and scholarship. Postgraduates, researchers and methodologists from disciplines across the social sciences will find this an invaluable source of reference.

Front Matter

• Review Panel
• List of Contributors
• Section 1 | The Internet as a Research Medium
• The Internet as a Research Medium: An Editorial Introduction to the Sage Handbook of Online Research Methods
• 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
• 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
• Overview: Online Surveys
• Sampling Methods for Web and E-mail Surveys
• Internet Survey Design
• Internet Survey Software Tools
• 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 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
• 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

Back Matter

• Glossary of Key Terms

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