Innovations in Digital Research Methods

Herausgegeben:Halfpenny, Peter; Procter, Rob

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Vast amounts of digital data are now generated daily by people as they go about their lives, yet social researchers are struggling to exploit it. At the same time, the challenges faced by society in the 21st century are growing ever more complex, and demands research that is bigger in scale, more collaborative and multi-disciplinary than ever before.

This cutting-edge volume provides an accessible introduction to innovative digital social research tools and methods that harness this data deluge and successfully tackle key research challenges. Contributions from leading international researchers cover topics such as:
Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research Data management Social media and social network analysis Modeling and simulation Survey methods Visualizing social data Ethics and e-research The future of social research in the digital age
This vibrant introduction to innovative digitalresearch methods is essential reading for anyone conducting social research today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd / Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 579g
• ISBN-13: 9781446203095
• ISBN-10: 1446203093
• Artikelnr.: 42294803

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview - Peter Halfpenny and Rob Proctor
Chapter 2: The Changing Social Data Landscape - Kingsley Purdam and Mark Elliot
Chapter 3: Exploiting New Sources of Data - Kingsley Purdam and Mark Elliot
Chapter 4: Survey Methods: Challenges and Opportunities - Joe Murphy
Chapter 5: Advances in Data Management for Social Survey - Paul S. Lambert
Chapter 6: Modelling and Simulation - Mark Birkin and Nick Malleson
Chapter 7: Contemporary developments in statistical software for social scientists - Paul S. Lambert, William J. Browne and Danius T. Michaelides
Chapter 8: Text Mining and Social Media: When Quantitative Meets Qualitative, and Software Meets People - Lawrence Ampofo, Simon Collister, Ben O'Loughlin and Andrew Chadwick
Chapter 9: Digital Records and the Digital Replay System - Andy Crabtree, Paul Tennent, Pat Brundell and Dawn Knight
Chapter 10: Social Network Analysis - Robert Ackland and Jonathan Zhu
Chapter 11: Visualising Spatial Data and Social Media - Michael Batty, Steven Gray, Andrew Hudson-Smith, Richard Milton, Oliver O'Brien and Flora Roumpani
Chapter 12: Ethical Praxis in e-Research - R.J. Anderson and Marina Jirotka
Chapter 13: Sociology and the Digital Challenge - Mike Savage

Rezensionen

From machine learning tweets to ethical considerations of Big Data, this timely book provides a highly interdisciplinary survey of innovative digital research methods. The book uniquely blurs qualitative and quantitative approaches to provide refreshingly forward-looking insights for those new to digital research, but also for those more experienced in the field. Dhiraj Murthy