Digital Methods for Social Science

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

List of Figures and Tables Foreword; Noortje Marres Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors 1.Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology: An Introduction; Helene Snee, Christine Hine, Yvette Morey, Steven Roberts, Hayley Watson PART I: BIG DATA, THICJ DATA: SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYSIS 2.Methodological innovation in precarious spaces: the case of Twitter; Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess 3. Have we even solved the first 'big data challenge?' Practical issues concerning data collection and visual representation for social media analytics; Phillip Brooker, Julie Barnett, Timothy Cribbin and Sanjay Sharma 4. I'm always on Facebook!' Exploring Facebook as a mainstream research tool and ethnographic site; Eve Stirling PART II: COMBINING AND COMPARING METHODS 5. Mixing modes to widen research participation; Jo Hope 6. Do we need polls? Why Twitter will not replace opinion surveys, but can complement them; Javier Sajuria and Jorge Fabrega 7. Video analysis in digital literacy studies: Exploring innovative methods; Roberto de Roock, Ibrar Bhatt, and Jonathan Adams PART III: DEVELOPING INNOVATIONS IN DIGITAL METHODS 8. Prototyping social sciences: Emplacing digital methods; Adolfo Estalella 9. Digital methods and perpetual reinvention? Asynchronous interviewing and photo elicitation; Emma Hutchinson 10. Digital stories and handmade skills: Explorations in how digital methods can be used to study transmissions of skill; Victoria Tedder PART IV: DIGITAL RESEARCH: CHALLENGES AND CONTENTIONS 11. What's the matter with MOOCs? Sociomaterial methodologies for educational research; Jeremy Knox 12. Towards an innovative inclusion: Using digital methods with young people; Emma Bond and Stuart Agnew 13. Ethics Issues in Digital Methods Research; Claire Hewson 14. Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology: Conclusions Helene Snee, Christine Hine, Yvette Morey, Steven Roberts, Hayley Watson Index