Roberts / Snee / Hine Digital Methods for Social Science

An Interdisciplinary Guide to Research Innovation
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-45366-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 251 Seiten

This timely book inspires researchers to deploy relevant, effective, innovative digital methods. It explores the relationship of such methods to 'mainstream' social science; interdisciplinarity; innovations in digital research tools; the opportunities (and challenges) of digital methods in researching social life; and digital research ethics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roberts, Steven

Snee, Helene

Hine, Christine

Morey, Yvette

Watson, Hayley

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;0
2;Contents;6
3;List of Figures and Tables;8
4;Foreword by Noortje Marres;9
5;Acknowledgements;11
6;Notes on Contributors;12
7;1 Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology: An Introduction;20
8;Part I: Big Data, Thick Data: Social Media Analysis;31
8.1;Introduction to Part I;31
8.2;2 Methodological Innovation in Precarious Spaces: The Case of Twitter;35
8.3;3 Have We Even Solved the First ‘Big Data Challenge?’ Practical Issues Concerning Data Collection and Visual Representation for Social Media Analytics;52
8.4;4 ‘I’m Always on Facebook!’: Exploring Facebook as a Mainstream Research Tool and Ethnographic Site;69
9;Part II: Combining and Comparing Methods;85
9.1;Introduction to Part II;85
9.2;5 Mixing Modes to Widen Research Participation;89
9.3;6 Do We Need Polls? Why Twitter Will Not Replace Opinion Surveys, but Can Complement Them;105
9.4;7 Video Analysis in Digital Literacy Studies: Exploring Innovative Methods;123
10;Part III: Developing Innovations in Digital Methods;140
10.1;Introduction to Part III;140
10.2;8 Prototyping Social Sciences: Emplacing Digital Methods;144
10.3;9 Digital Methods and Perpetual Reinvention? Asynchronous Interviewing and Photo Elicitation;160
10.4;10 Digital Stories and Handmade Skills: Explorations in How Digital Methods Can Be Used to Study Transmissions of Skill;174
11;Part IV: Digital Research: Challengesand Contentions;188
11.1;Introduction to Part IV;188
11.2;11 What’s the Matter with MOOCs? Socio-material Methodologies for Educational Research;192
11.3;12 Towards an Innovative Inclusion: Using Digital Methods with Young People;207
11.4;13 Ethics Issues in Digital Methods Research;223
11.5;14 Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology: Conclusions;239
12;Index;248

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathon Adams, English Language Institute, Ministry of Education, Singapore
Stuart Agnew, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Arts Business and Applied Social Science, University Campus Suffolk (UCS), UK

Julie Barnett, Professor of Health Psychology, University of Bath, UK
Ibrar Bhatt, Senior Research Associate, Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University, UK

Emma Bond, Associate Professor, University Campus Suffolk, and Director of iSEED (The Institute for Social, Educational and Enterprise Development, UK

Phillip Brooker, Research Associate, University of Bath, UK

Axel Bruns, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, and Professor, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Jean Burgess, Associate Professor of Digital Media, and Director of the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Timothy Cribbin, Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Brunel University London, UK

Roberto de Roock, Center for Games and Impact, Arizona State University, USA
Adolfo Estalella, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Manchester, UK

Jorge Fábrega is Assistant Professor, Adolfo Ibañez University, Chile
Claire Hewson, Lecturer in Psychology, The Open University, UK
Christine Hine, Reader in Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK

Jo Hope, University of Surrey, UK
Emma Hutchinson, University of Warwick, UK
Jeremy Knox, Lecturer in Digital Education,University of Edinburgh, UK
Noortje Marres, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Yvette Morey, Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Behaviour Change and Influence, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
Steven Roberts, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Monash University, USA
Javier Sajuria, Research Associate, School of Government in Public Policy, University of Strathclyde, UK
Sanjay Sharma, Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, Media and Communications, Brunel University London, UK
Helene Snee, Lecturer in Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Eve Stirling, Senior Lecturer in Design, Sheffield Institute of Art, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Victoria Tedder, University of Kent, UK
Hayley Watson, Senior Research Analyst, Trilateral Research & Consulting, London, UK