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Digital methods for social science : an interdisciplinary guide to research innovation / edited by Helene Snee, Lecturer in Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, Christine Hine, Reader in Sociology, University of Surrey, UK, Yvette Morey, Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Behaviour Change and Influence, University of the West of England, UK, Steven Roberts, Senior Lecturer of Sociology, Monash University, Australia, Hayley Watson, Senior Research Analyst, Trilateral Research and Consulting, UK

Snee, Helene [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Hine, Christine [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Morey, Yvette [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Roberts, Steven, 1978- [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Watson, Hayley [Herausgeberin/-geber]

First published

Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

1 Online-Ressource (XVIII, 234 Seiten) : Diagramme

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

201510

Erscheint auch als: Digital methods for social science (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-1-137-45366-2

978-1-137-45365-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-349-55862-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 955195520 (aus SWB)      ; OCoLC: 941873214 (aus SWB)     

Springer eBook Collection

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1057/9781137453662

MR 2200  | LB 33999      Ähnliche Literatur

JA1-92

300.285 ; 320

*Soziologie ; Methode ; Datenverarbeitung ; Internet ; Aufsatzsammlung      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Political science ; Science ; Data structures (Computer science) ; Database management ; Statistics ; Social sciences

"Contents" -- "List of Figures and Tables" -- "Foreword by Noortje Marres" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Notes on Contributors" -- "1 Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology: An Introduction" -- "Part I: Big Data, Thick Data: Social Media Analysis" -- "Introduction to Part I" -- "2 Methodological Innovation in Precarious Spaces: The Case of Twitter" -- "3 Have We Even Solved the First ‘Big Data Challenge?’ Practical Issues Concerning Data Collection and Visual Representation for Social Media Analytics" -- "4 ‘I’m Always on Facebook!’: Exploring Facebook as a Mainstream Research Tool and Ethnographic Site" -- "Part II: Combining and Comparing Methods" -- "Introduction to Part II" -- "5 Mixing Modes to Widen Research Participation" -- "6 Do We Need Polls? Why Twitter Will Not Replace Opinion Surveys, but Can Complement Them" -- "7 Video Analysis in Digital Literacy Studies: Exploring Innovative Methods" -- "Part III: Developing Innovations in Digital Methods" -- "Introduction to Part III" -- "8 Prototyping Social Sciences: Emplacing Digital Methods" -- "9 Digital Methods and Perpetual Reinvention? Asynchronous Interviewing and Photo Elicitation" -- "10 Digital Stories and Handmade Skills: Explorations in How Digital Methods Can Be Used to Study Transmissions of Skill" -- "Part IV: Digital Research: Challengesand Contentions" -- "Introduction to Part IV" -- "11 What’s the Matter with MOOCs? Socio-material Methodologies for Educational Research" -- "12 Towards an Innovative Inclusion: Using Digital Methods with Young People" -- "13 Ethics Issues in Digital Methods Research" -- "14 Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology: Conclusions".

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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.

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