Virtual Research Methods

Four-Volume Set Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-85702-740-5
Verlag: Blue Rose Publishers

Buch, Englisch, 1616 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 3198 g

Reihe: SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods

The new social contexts formed via the Internet, and the new forms of data made available by the increasing use of diverse forms of computer mediated communication, have challenged researchers to develop approaches which do them justice. At the same time, there has been concern that established principles should be preserved, and that the connection between virtual research methods and more conventional research approaches should not be rejected out of hand. Despite a number of handbooks and textbooks published in recent years there is still a dearth of authoritative works which offer comprehensive coverage of the virtual research methods available to social researchers. In particular, there is none which thoroughly explores the full range of virtual research methods and their antecedents, and which explores the methodological and epistemological ramifications of their development. This multivolume reference collection fills this gap.

The collection covers perspectives on the Internet as a social space; research models for the Internet and the skills, techniques and approaches needed to conduct research in a virtual environment; innovations in the research process and reflections on these innovations; and the ethical considerations to take into account when doing research on the Internet.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hine, Christine M

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten, Studientechnik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufliche Bildung Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten, Studientechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

VOLUME ONE
PART ONE: PERSPECTIVES ON INTERNET AS SOCIAL SPACE
Reducing Social Context Cues - Lee Sproull and Sara Kiesler
Electronic Mail in Organizational Communication
The Emergence of Online Community - Nancy Baym
Virtual Communities as Communities - Barry Wellman and Milena Gulia
Net Surfers Don't Ride Alone
Constructing Identity Online - Kaveri Subrahmanyam and David Šmahel
Identity Exploration and Self-Presentation
Grooming, Gossip, Facebook and MySpace - ZeynepTufekci
Privacy, Trust and Self-Disclosure - Adam Joinson et al
Globalization, Networking, Urbanization - Manuel Castells
Reflections on the Spatial Dynamics of the Information Age
Minding the Digital Gap - Eszter Hargittai
Why Understanding Digital Inequality
Fizz in the Field - Steve Jones
Toward a Basis for an Emergent Internet Studies
PART TWO: RESEARCH SITES AND RESEARCH MODELS FOR THE INTERNET
Conclusions - Daniel Miller and Don
Internet as Culture and Cultural Artefact - Christine Hine
From Culture to Connection - Allison Cavanagh
Internet Community Studies
A Typology of Ethnographic Scales for Virtual Worlds - Tom Boellstorff
Love at First Sight? Visual Images and Virtual Encounters with Bodies - Nicole Constable
The Field Site as a Network - Jenna Burrell
A Strategy for Locating Ethnographic Research
The Ethnography of New Media Worlds? Following the Case of Global Poker - John Farnsworth and Terry Austrin
Localizing the Internet beyond Communities and Networks - John Postill
Websites as Visual and Multimodal Cultural Expressions - Luc Pauwels
Opportunities and Issues of Online Hybrid Media Research
VOLUME TWO
PART ONE: SKILLS, TECHNIQUES AND APPROACHES 1: MODES OF ETHNOGRAPHIC ENGAGEMENT
Ethnographic Approaches to the Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication - Angela Cora Garcia et al
Digital Ethnography - Dhiraj Murthy
An Examination of the Use of New Technologies for Social Research
Life in Virtual Worlds (American Behavioral Scientist 43(3): 436-449 [SAGE]) - T.L.Taylor
'Piling on Layers of Understanding' - Vanessa Dirksen, Ard Huizing and Bas Smit
The Use of Connective Ethnography for the Study of (Online) Work Practices
Mixed Methods for Mixed Reality - David Feldon and Yasmin Kafai
Understanding Users' Avatar Activities in Virtual Worlds
Co-Construction and Field Creation - Maximilian Forte
Website Development as both an Instrument and Relationship in Action Research
Towards Ethnography of Television on the Internet - Christine Hine
A Mobile Strategy for Exploring Mundane Interpretive Activities
Inside the 'Pro-Ana' Community - Sarah Brotsky and David Giles
A Covert Online Participant Observation
PART TWO: SKILLS, TECHNIQUES AND APPROACHES 2: REASEARCH RELATIONSHIPS
Qualitative Interviewing in Internet Studies - Michelle Kazmer and Bo Xie
Playing with the Media, Playing with the Method
Reflecting on the Experience of Interviewing Online - Mark Davis et al
Perspectives from the Internet and HIV Study in London
E-Mail Interviewing in Qualitative Research - Lokman Meho
A Methodological Discussion
Credibility, Authenticity and Voice - Nalita James and Hugh Busher
Dilemmas in Online Interviewing
Online with the E-Mums - Clare Madge and Henrietta O'Connor
Exploring the Internet as a Medium for Research
In the Flesh or Online? Exploring Qualitative Research Methodologies - Wendy Seymour
Online Dating and Mating - Danielle Couch and Pranee Liamputtong
The Use of the Internet to Meet Sexual Partners
Online Focus Groups as a Tool to Collect Data in Hard-to-Include Populations - Kiek Tates et al
Examples from Paediatric Oncology
Doing Synchronous Online Focus Groups with Young People - Fiona Fox, Marianne Morris and Nichola Rumsey
Methodological Reflections
Resear

Über Autor(innen)

Hine, Christine M
Christine Hine is a reader in sociology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey. Her main research centres on the sociology of science and technology with a particular interest in the role played by new technologies in the knowledge production process. She also has a major interest in the development of ethnography in technical settings, and in “virtual methods” (the use of the Internet for social research). In particular, she has developed mobile and connective approaches to ethnography which combine online and offline social contexts. She is the author of Virtual Ethnography (SAGE Publications, 2000), Systematics as Cyberscience (MIT, 2008), Understanding Qualitative Research: The Internet (Oxford, 2012), and Ethnography for the Internet (Bloomsbury, 2015) and the editor of Virtual Methods (Berg, 2005), New Infrastructures for Knowledge Production (Information Science Publishing, 2006), and Virtual Research Methods (SAGE Publications, 2012).