Doing Internet Research
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Doing Internet Research

Critical Issues and Methods for Examining the Net

  1. 328 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Doing Internet Research

Critical Issues and Methods for Examining the Net

About this book

Whether or not one believes the hyperbolic claims about the Internet being the biggest thing since the invention of the wheel, the Internet is a medium with great consequences for social and economic life. Doing Internet Research is written to help people discern in what ways it has commanded the public imagination, and the methodological issues that arise when one tries to study and understand the social processes occurring within the Internet. Each contributor to the volume offers original responses in the search for, and critique of, methods with which to study the Internet and the social, political, economic, artistic, communicative phenomena occurring within and around it. This book provides encouragement for readers getting started with Internet research and also provides perspective on this new and ubiquitous communication medium.

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Information

Publisher
SAGE Publications, Inc
Year
1998
Print ISBN
9780761915959
eBook ISBN
9781452264660
Edition
1
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Research in Education

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction: Forests, Trees, and Internet Research
  10. Chapter 1 - Studying the Net: Intricacies and Issues
  11. Chapter 2 - Complementary Explorative Data Analysis: The Reconciliation of Quantitative and Qualitative Principles
  12. Chapter 3 - Recontextualizing "Cyberspace": Methodological Considerations for On-Line Research
  13. Chapter 4 - Studying On-Line Social Networks
  14. Chapter 5 - Cybertalk and the Method of Instances
  15. Chapter 6 - Configuring as a Mode of Rhetorical Analysis
  16. Chapter 7 - From Paper-and-Pencil to Screen-and-Keyboard: Toward a Methodology for Survey Research on the Internet
  17. Chapter 8 - Measuring Internet Audiences: Patrons of an On-Line Art Museum
  18. Chapter 9 - Analyzing the Web: Directions and Challenges
  19. Chapter 10 - There Is a There There: Notes Toward a Definition of Cybereommunity
  20. Chapter 11 - Researching and Creating Community Networks
  21. Chapter 12 - Beyond Netiquette: The Ethics of Doing Naturalistic Discourse Research on the Internet
  22. Chapter 13 - Thinking the Internet: Cultural Studies Versus the Millennium
  23. Index
  24. About the Contributors