Hughes SAGE Internet Research Methods

Four-Volume Set
ISBN: 978-1-4462-7593-1
Verlag: SAGE Publications
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 1680 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: SAGE Library of Research Methods

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hughes, Jason

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Datenanalyse, Datenverarbeitung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

VOLUME ONE: CORE ISSUES, DEBATES AND CONTROVERSIES IN INTERNET RESEARCH
Life in Virtual Worlds - T.L. Taylor
Plural Existence, Multimodalities and Other Online Research Challenges
Internet as Culture and Cultural Artefact - Christine Hine
Power Issues in Internet Research - Chris Mann and Fiona Stewart
In the Flesh or Online? Exploring Qualitative Research Methodologies - Wendy Seymour
Authenticity and Identity in Internet Contexts - Christine Hine
Online Inquiry of Public Selves - Kendal Broad and Kristin Joos
Methodological Considerations
Epistemological Dimensions in Qualitative Research - Nalita James and Hugh Busher
The Construction of Knowledge Online
Research Design and Tools for Internet Research - Claire Hewson and Dianna Laurent
How the Internet Is Changing the Implementation of Traditional Research Methods, People's Daily Lives and the Way in Which Developmental Scientists Conduct Research - Jaap Denissen, Linus Neumann and Maarten van Zalk
Ethical Dilemmas in Research on Internet Communities - Sarah Flicker, Dave Haans and Harvey Skinner
Encountering Distressing Information in Online Research - Susannah Stern
A Consideration of Legal and Ethical Responsibilities
Developing a Geographers' Agenda for Online Research Ethics - Clare Madge
The Ethics of Internet Research - Rebecca Enyon, Jenny Fry and Ralph Schroeder
Ethics in Online Research - Kate Orton-Johnson
Evaluating the ESRC Framework for Research Ethics Categorization of Risk
Understanding and Managing Legal Issues in Internet Research - Andrew Charlesworth
Some Additional Challenges for Online Researchers - Ted Gaiser and Anthony Schreiner
The Displacement of Time and Space in Online Research - Nalita James and Hugh Busher
The Question Concerning (Internet) Time - Susa Leong et al
The Cultural Dimensions of Online Communication - Shani Orgad
A Study of Breast Cancer Patients' Internet Spaces
Gradations in Digital Inclusion - Sonia Livingstone and Ellen Helsper
Children, Young People and the Digital Divide

VOLUME TWO: TAKING RESEARCH ONLINE: INTERNET SURVEYS AND SAMPLING
Advantages and Disadvantages of Internet Research Surveys - Ronald Fricker and Matthias Schonlau
Evidence from the Literature
Overview - Vasja Vehovar and Katja Lozar Manfreda
Online Surveys
Internet Survey Design - Samuel Best and Brian Krueger
Writing Survey Questions - Valerie Sue and Lois Ritter
Designing and Developing the Survey Instrument - Valerie Sue and Lois Ritter
Web Survey Design - Kevin Shropshire, James Hawdon and James White
Balancing Measurement, Response and Topical Interest

Design of Web Questionnaires - Vera Toepoel et al
An Information-Processing Perspective for the Effect of Response Categories
Design of Web Questionnaires - Vera Toepoel, Marcel Das and Arthur van Soest
The Effects of the Number of Items per Screen
Using Questionnaire Design to Fight Non-Response Bias in Web Surveys - Paula Vicente and Elizabeth Reis
Sensitive Questions in Online Surveys - Elisabeth Coutts and Ben Jann
Experimental Results for Randomized Response Technique (RRT) and the Unmatched Count Technique (UCT)
Designing Scalar Questions for Web Surveys - Leah Melani Christian, Nicholas Parsons and Don Dilman
Sampling Methods for Web and E-Mail Surveys - Ronald Fricker
Representativeness in Online Surveys through Stratified Samples - Jörg Blasius and Maurice Brandt
Selection Bias in Web Surveys and the Use of Propensity Scores - Matthias Schonlau et al
'Web-Based Network Sampling' Efficiency and Efficacy of Respondent-Driven Sampling for Online Research - Cyprian Wejnert and Douglas Heckathorn
Name-Based Cluster Sampling - Douglas Ferguson
How to Increase Response Rates in List-Based Web Survey Samples - Florian Keusch
Comparing Response Rates from Web and Mail Surveys - Tse-Hua Shih and Xitao Fan
A Meta-Analysis

Über Autor(innen)

Hughes, Jason
Jason Hughes is Professor and Head of the School of Media, Communication and Sociology at the University of Leicester. His first book, Learning to Smoke (2003, Chicago Press), which synthesised aspects of the work of Howard Becker with that of Foucault and Elias, won the 2006 Norbert Elias prize. He has also coauthored with Ruth Simpson and Natasha Slutskaya Gender, Class and Occupation: Working Class Men Doing Dirty Work (Palgrave, 2016), and, together with Eric Dunning, Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology: Knowledge, Interdependence, Power, Process (Bloomsbury, 2013). Other works include the edited volumes Visual Methods (SAGE, 2012) and Internet Research Methods (SAGE, 2012), and coedited volumes Contemporary Approaches to Ethnographic Research (SAGE, 2018), Documentary and Archival Research (SAGE, 2016), Moral Panics in the Contemporary World (Bloomsbury, 2013), and Communities of Practice: Critical Perspectives (Routledge, 2007). His current research, funded by Cancer Research UK, is investigating the “careers” of adolescent e-cigarette users.