SAGE Internet Research Methods
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SAGE Internet Research Methods

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SAGE Internet Research Methods

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Historically, social researchers have shown a willingness to exploit new technologies to enhance, facilitate and support their various activities. However, arguably no other technological development has influenced the landscape of social research as rapidly and fundamentally as the Internet. This collection avoids both uncritical embrace and wholesale dismissal by considering some of the key literature in the field of Internet research methods.

Volume One: Core Issues, Debates and Controversies in Internet Research introduces themes and issues that run across all four volumes such as: epistemology, ontology and methodology in the online world; access, social divisions and the ?digital divide?; and the ethics of online research.

Volume Two: Taking Research Online - Internet Survey and Sampling addresses the range of resources, digital archives and Internet-based data sources that exist online from relatively straightforward and practical guides to such material through to more polemical pieces which consider problems relating to the use, access and analysis of online data and resources.

Volume Three: Taking Research Online - Qualitative Approaches considers the broad range of approaches to conducting researching via or ?in? the Internet. The focus is on conventional methods that have been ?taken online?, and which in doing so, have become transformed in scope and character.

Volume Four: Research ?On? and ?In? the Internet - Investigating the Online World follows logically from that which precedes it in exploring how social research has been ?taken online?, not simply through the deployment of existing methods and techniques via the Internet, but in researchers? increasing recognition and investigation of the online world as a sphere of human interaction - a socio-cultural arena to be explored ?from the desktop? as it were.

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Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9781446241042
eBook ISBN
9781446275931
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Appendix of Sources
  4. Editorā€™s Introduction: Internet Research Methods
  5. 1 - Life in Virtual Worlds: Plural Existence, Multimodalities, and Other Online Research Challenges
  6. 2 - Internet as Culture and Cultural Artefact
  7. 3 - Power Issues in Internet Research
  8. 4 - In the Flesh or Online? Exploring Qualitative Research Methodologies
  9. 5 - Authenticity and Identity in Internet Contexts
  10. 6 - Online Inquiry of Public Selves: Methodological Considerations
  11. 7 - Epistemological Dimensions in Qualitative Research: The Construction of Knowledge Online
  12. 8 - Research Design and Tools for Internet Research
  13. 9 - How the Internet Is Changing the Implementation of Traditional Research Methods, Peopleā€™s Daily Lives, and the Way in Which Developmental Scientists Conduct Research
  14. 10 - Ethical Dilemmas in Research on Internet Communities
  15. 11 - Encountering Distressing Information in Online Research: A Consideration of Legal and Ethical Responsibilities
  16. 12 - Developing a Geographersā€™ Agenda for Online Research Ethics
  17. 13 - The Ethics of Internet Research
  18. 14 - Ethics in Online Research; Evaluating the ESRC Framework for Research Ethics Categorisation of Risk
  19. 16 - Some Additional Challenges for Online Researchers
  20. 17 - The Displacement of Time and Space in Online Research
  21. 18 - The Question Concerning(Internet) Time
  22. 19 - The Cultural Dimensions of Online Communication: A Study of Breast Cancer Patientsā€™ Internet Spaces
  23. 20 - Gradations in Digital Inclusion: Children,Young People and the Digital Divide
  24. Volume II
  25. Contents
  26. 21 - Advantages and Disadvantages of Internet Research Surveys: Evidence from the Literature
  27. 22 - Overview: Online Surveys
  28. 23 - Internet Survey Design
  29. 24 - Writing Survey Questions
  30. 25 - Designing and Developing the Survey Instrument
  31. 26 - Web Survey Design: Balancing Measurement, Response, and Topical Interest
  32. 27 - Design of Web Questionnaires: An Information-processing Perspective for the Effect of Response Categories
  33. 28 - Design of Web Questionnaires: The Effects of the Number of Items per Screen
  34. 29 - Using Questionnaire Design to Fight Nonresponse Bias in Web Surveys
  35. 30 - Sensitive Questions in Online Surveys: Experimental Results for the Randomized Response Technique (RRT) and the Unmatched Count Technique (UCT)
  36. 31 - Designing Scalar Questions for Web Surveys
  37. 32 - Sampling Methods for Web and E-mail Surveys
  38. 33 - Representativeness in Online Surveys through Stratified Samples
  39. 34 - Selection Bias in Web Surveys and the Use of Propensity Scores
  40. 35 - Web-based Network Sampling: Efficiency and Efficacy of Respondent-driven Sampling for Online Research
  41. 36 - Name-based Cluster Sampling
  42. 37 - How to Increase Response Rates in List-based Web Survey Samples
  43. 38 - Comparing Response Rates from Web and Mail Surveys: A Meta-Analysis
  44. 39 - The Mode Effect in Mixed-mode Surveys: Mail and Web Surveys
  45. 40 - Web and Mail Surveys: An Experimental Comparison of Methods for Nonprofit Research
  46. Volume III
  47. Contents
  48. 41 - The Virtual Objects of Ethnography
  49. 42 - Engaging with Research Participants Online
  50. 43 - Method, Methodology, and New Media
  51. 44 - Digital Ethnography: An Examination of the Use of New Technologies for Social Research
  52. 45 - Ethnographic Approaches to the Internet and Computer-mediated Communication
  53. 46 - The Method of Netnography
  54. 47 - Internet-based Interviewing
  55. 48 - Credibility, Authenticity and Voice: Dilemmas in Online Interviewing
  56. 49 - Benefits of Participating in Internet Interviews: Women Helping Women
  57. 50 - Evaluating Internet Interviews with Gay Men
  58. 51 - Researching Shyness: A Contradiction in Terms?
  59. 52 - Conducting Intensive Interviews Using Email: A Serendipitous Comparative Opportunity
  60. 53 - Using Email for Data Collection
  61. 54 - Virtual Fieldwork Using Access Grid
  62. 55 - Researching Online Populations: The Use of Online Focus Groups for Social Research
  63. 56 - Doing Synchronous Online Focus Groups with Young People: Methodological Reflections
  64. 57 - Data Analysis
  65. 58 - Analysis of Thin Online Interview Data: Toward a Sequential Hierarchical Language-based Approach
  66. 59 - Distributed Video Analysis in Social Research
  67. 60 - Smartphones: An Emerging Tool for Social Scientists
  68. Volume IV
  69. Contents
  70. 61 - The World of Web 2.0: Blogs, Wikis and Websites
  71. 62 - Sociology and, of and in Web 2.0: Some Initial Considerations
  72. 63 - New Avenues for Sociological Inquiry: Evolving Forms of Ethnographic Practice
  73. 64 - Interviews and Internet Forums: A Comparison of Two Sources of Qualitative Data
  74. 65 - ā€˜Entering the Blogosphereā€™: Some Strategies for Using Blogs in Social Research
  75. 66 - The Psychology of Blogging: You, Me, and Everyone in Between
  76. 67 - Weblogs, Traditional Sources Online and Political Participation: An Assessment of How the Internet Is Changing the Political Environment
  77. 68 - Mapping the Norwegian Blogosphere: Methodological Challenges inInternationalizing Internet Research
  78. 69 - Mapping the Australian Networked Public Sphere
  79. 70 - Internet Political Discussions in the Arab World: A Look at Online Forums from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan
  80. 71 - Online Petitions: New Tools of Secondary Analysis?
  81. 72 - Ambient Affiliation: A Linguistic Perspective on Twitter
  82. 73 - Mining the Internet for Linguistic and Social Data: An Analysis of ā€˜Carbon Compoundsā€™ in Web Feeds
  83. 74 - Sociology of Hyperlink Networks of Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and Twitter: A Case Study of South Korea
  84. 75 - ā€˜Piling on Layers of Understandingā€™: The Use of Connective Ethnography for the Study of (Online) Work Practices
  85. 76 - Towards Ethnography of Television on the Internet: A Mobile Strategy for Exploring Mundane Interpretive Activities
  86. 77 - Backstage with the Knowledge Boys and Girls: Goffman and Distributed Agencyin an Organic Online Community
  87. 78 - Emotional Reflexivity in Contemporary Friendships: Understanding It Using Elias and Facebook Etiquette
  88. 79 - The Online Support Group as a Community: A Micro-Analysis of the Interaction with a New Member
  89. 80 - The Presentation of ā€œPro-Anorexiaā€ in Online Group Interactions