VOLUME ONE: CORE ISSUES, DEBATES AND CONTROVERSIES IN INTERNET RESEARCH |
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Life in Virtual Worlds |
T.L. Taylor |
Plural Existence, Multimodalities and Other Online Research Challenges |
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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 |
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Epistemological Dimensions in Qualitative Research |
Nalita James and Hugh Busher |
The Construction of Knowledge Online |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Gradations in Digital Inclusion |
Sonia Livingstone and Ellen Helsper |
Children, Young People and the Digital Divide |
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VOLUME TWO: TAKING RESEARCH ONLINE: INTERNET SURVEYS AND SAMPLING |
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Internet Research Surveys |
Ronald Fricker and Matthias Schonlau |
Evidence from the Literature |
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Overview |
Vasja Vehovar and Katja Lozar Manfreda |
Online Surveys |
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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 |
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Design of Web Questionnaires |
Vera Toepoel et al |
An Information-Processing Perspective for the Effect of Response Categories |
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Design of Web Questionnaires |
Vera Toepoel, Marcel Das and Arthur van Soest |
The Effects of the Number of Items per Screen |
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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) |
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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 |
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The Mode Effect in Mixed-Mode Surveys |
Beng Börkan |
Mail and Web Surveys |
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Web and Mail Surveys |
Weiwei Lin and Gregg van Ryzin |
An Experimental Comparison of Methods for Non-Profit Research |
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VOLUME THREE: TAKING RESEARCH ONLINE: QUALITATIVE APPROACHES |
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The Virtual Objects of Ethnography |
Christine Hine |
Engaging with Research Participants Online |
Nalita James and Hugh Busher |
Method, Methodology and New Media |
Alison Powell |
Digital Ethnography |
Dhiraj Murthy |
An Examination of the Use of New Technologies for Social Research |
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Ethnographic Approaches to the Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication |
Angela Cora Garcia et al |
The Method of Netnography |
Robert Kozinets |
Internet-Based Interviewing |
Henrietta O'Connor et al |
Credibility, Authenticity and Voice |
Nalita James and Hugh Busher |
Dilemmas in Online Interviewing |
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Benefits of Participating in Internet Interviews |
Cheryl Tatano Beck |
Women Helping Women |
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Evaluating Internet Interviews with Gay Men |
Russel Ayling and Avril Mewse |
Researching Shyness |
Susie Scott |
A Contradiction in Terms? |
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Conducting Intensive Interviews Using E-Mail |
Judith McCoyd and Toba Schwaber Kerson |
A Serendipitous Comparative Opportunity |
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Using E-Mail for Data Collection |
Ted Gaiser and Anthony Schreiner |
Virtual Fieldwork Using Access Grid |
Nigel Fielding |
Researching Online Populations |
Kate Stewart and Matthew Williams |
The Use of Online Focus Groups for Social Research |
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Doing Synchronous Online Focus Groups with Young People |
Fiona Fox, Marianne Morris and Nichola Rumsey |
Methodological Reflections |
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Data Analysis |
Robert Kozinets |
Analysis of Thin Online Interview Data |
Richard Kitto and John Barnett |
Toward a Sequential Hierarchical Language-Based Approach |
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Distributed Video Analysis in Social Research |
Jon Hindmarsh |
Smartphones |
Mika Raento, Antti Oulasvirta and Nathan Eagle |
An Emerging Tool for Social Scientists |
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VOLUME FOUR: RESEARCH 'ON' AND 'IN' THE INTERNET: INVESTIGATING THE ONLINE WORLD |
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The World of Web 2.0 |
Ted Gaiser and Anthony Schreiner |
Blogs, Wikis and Websites |
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Sociology and, of and in Web 2.0 |
David Beer and Roger Burrows |
Some Initial Considerations |
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New Avenues for Sociological Inquiry |
Laura Robinson and Jeremy Schulz |
Evolving Forms of Ethnographic Practice |
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Interview and Internet Forums |
Clive Seale et al |
A Comparison of Two Sources of Qualitative Data |
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'Entering the Blogosphere' |
Nicholas Hookway |
Some Strategies for Using Blogs in Social Research |
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The Psychology of Blogging |
Laura Gurak and Smiljana Antonijevic |
You, Me and Everyone in between |
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Weblogs, Traditional Sources Online and Political Participation |
Homero Gil De Zúñiga, Eulàlia Puig-I-Abril and Rojas |
An Assessment of How the Internet Is Changing the Political Environment |
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Mapping the Norwegian Blogosphere |
Hallvard Moe |
Methodological Challenges in Internationalizing Internet Research |
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Mapping the Australian Networked Public Sphere |
Axel Bruns et al |
Internet Political Discussions in the Arab World |
Eisa Al Nashmi et al |
A Look at Online Forums from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan |
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Online Petitions |
Helen Briassoulis |
New Tools of Secondary Analysis? |
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Ambient Affiliation |
Michele Zappavinga |
The Linguistic Perspective on Twitter |
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Mining the Internet for Linguistic and Social Data |
Nelya Koteyko |
An Analysis of 'Carbon Compounds' in Web Feeds |
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Sociology of Hyperlink Networks of Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Twitter |
Chien-leng Hsu and Han Woo Park |
A Case Study of South Korea |
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'Piling on Layers of Understanding' |
Vanessa Dirksen, Ard Huizing and Bas Smit |
The Use of Connective Ethnography for the Study of (Online) Work Practices |
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Towards Ethnography of Television on the Internet |
Christine Hine |
A Mobile Strategy for Exploring Mundane Interpretive Activities |
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Backstage with the Knowledge Boys and Girls |
Drew Ross |
Goffman and Distributed Agency in an Organic Online Community |
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Emotional Reflexivity in Contemporary Friendships |
Mary Homes |
Understanding It Using Elias and Facebook Etiquette |
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The Online Support Group as a Community |
Wyke Stommel and Tom Koole |
A Micro-Analysis of the Interaction with a New Member |
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The Presentation of 'Pro-Anorexia' in Online Group Interactions |
Jeff Gavin, Karen Rodham and Helen Poyer |