SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods (eBook)

SECTION ONE - ONLINE RESEARCH METHODS
Chapter 01: Online Research Methods in the Social Sciences: An Editorial Introduction - Raymond M. Lee, Nigel G. Fielding, and Grant Blank
SECTION TWO – DESIGNING ONLINE RESEARCH
Chapter 02: The Ethics of Online Research - Rebecca Eynon, Jenny Fry and Ralph Schroeder
Chapter 03: Data Quality in Online Environments - Karsten Boye Rasmussen
SECTION THREE - ONLINE DATA CAPTURE AND DATA COLLECTION
Chapter 04: Research Design and Tools for Online Research - Claire Hewson
Chapter 05: Nonreactive Data Collection Online - Dietmar Janetzko
Chapter 06: What’s New? The Applications of Data Mining and Big Data in the Social Sciences - Ayelet Baram-Tsabari, Elad Segev and Aviv J. Sharon
Chapter 07: Of Instruments and Data: Social Media Uses, Abuses and Analysis - Martin Innes, Colin Roberts, Alun Preece and David Rogers
Chapter 08: “Big Social Science”: Doing Big Data in the Social Sciences - Jonathan Bright
SECTION FOUR – THE ONLINE SURVEY
Chapter 09: Overview: Online Surveys - Vasja Vehovar and Katja Lozar Manfreda
Chapter 10: Sampling Methods for Online Surveys - Ronald D. Fricker, Jr
Chapter 11: Online Survey Design - Vera Toepoel
Chapter 12: Online Survey Software - Lars Kaczmirek
Chapter 13: Improving the Effectiveness of Online Data Collection by Mixing Survey Modes - Don A. Dillman, Feng Hao and Morgan M. Millar
SECTION FIVE – DIGITAL QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS
Chapter 14: Online Social Networks: Concepts for Data Collection and Analysis - Bernie Hogan
Chapter 15: Scale, Time, and Activity Patterns: Advanced Methods for the Analysis of Online Networks - Javier Borge-Holthoefer & Sandra González-Bailón
Chapter 16: Social Simulation and Online Research Methods - Corinna Elsenbroich
Chapter 17: Games and Online Research Methods - Harko Verhagen, Magnus Johansson, Wander Jager
Chapter 18: Data visualisation as an emerging tool for online research - Helen Kennedy and William Allen
SECTION SIX – DIGITAL TEXT ANALYSIS
Chapter 19: Online Tools for Content Analysis - Roel Popping
Chapter 20: Sentiment Analysis for Small and Big Data - Mike Thelwall
Chapter 21: Artificial Intelligence/Expert Systems and Online Research - Edward Brent
Chapter 22: The Blogosphere - Nicholas Hookway and Helene Snee
SECTION SEVEN – VIRTUAL ETHNOGRAPHY
Chapter 23: Ethnographies of Online Communities and Social Media: Modes, Varieties, Affordances - Christine Hine
Chapter 24: Online Interviewing - Henrietta O’Connor and Clare Madge
Chapter 25: Online Focus Groups - Katie M. Abrams and Ted J. Gaiser
Chapter 26: Tools for Collaboration in Video-based Research - Jon Hindmarsh
Chapter 27: CAQDAS at a Crossroads: Affordances of Technology in an Online Environment - Christina Silver & Sarah L Bulloch
SECTION EIGHT – ONLINE SECONDARY ANALYSIS: RESOURCES AND METHODS
Chapter 28: Online access to Quantitative Data Resources - Louise Corti and Jo Wathan
Chapter 29: Secondary Qualitative Analysis Using Online Resources - Patrick Carmichael
Chapter 30: Finding and Investigating Geographical Data Online - David Martin, Samantha Cockings and Samuel Leung
Chapter 31: Mapping Spaces: Cartographic Representations of Online Data - Matthew Zook, Ate Poorthuis and Rich Donohue
SECTION NINE – THE FUTURE OF ONLINE SOCIAL RESEARCH
Chapter 32: Engaging Remote Marginalized Communities Using Appropriate Online Research Methods - Brian Beaton, David Perley, Chris George, Susan O’Donnell
Chapter 33: Web- and Phone-Based Data Collection Using Planned Missing Designs - William Revelle, David M. Condon, Joshua Wilt, Jason A. French, Ashley Brown and Lorien G. Elleman
Chapter 34: Social Cartography and ‘Knowing Capitalism’: Critical Reflections on Social Research and the Geo-Spatial Web - Harrison Smith, Michael Hardey, Mariann Hardey and Roger Burrows
Chapter 35: Online Environments and the Future of Social Science Research - Michael Fischer, Stephen Lyon and David Zeitlyn
Chapter 36: Online Research Methods and Social Theory - Grant Blank