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Digital research confidential : the secrets of studying behavior online /

Behind-the-scenes stories of how Internet research projects actually get done. The realm of the digital offers both new methods of research and new objects of study. Because the digital environment for scholarship is constantly evolving, researchers must sometimes improvise, change their plans, and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hargittai, Eszter, 1973- (Editor ), Sandvig, Christian (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • How to think about digital research / Christian Sandvig and Eszter Hargittai
  • "How local is user-generated content" : a 9,000+ word essay on answering a five-word research question" : or how we learned to stop worrying (or worry less) and love the diverse challenges of our fast-moving, geographically-flavored interdisciplinary research area / Darren Gergle and Brent Hecht
  • Flash mobs and the social life of public spaces : analyzing online visual data to study new forms of sociability / Virag Molnar and Aron Hsiao
  • Social software as social science / Eric Gilbert and Karrie Karahalios
  • Hired hands and dubious guesses : adventures in crowdsourced data collection / Aaron Shaw
  • Making sense of teen life : strategies for capturing ethnographic data in a networked era / Danah Boyd
  • When should we use real names in published accounts of internet research? / Amy Bruckman, Kurt Luther, and Casey Fiesler
  • The art of web crawling for social science research / Michelle Shumate and Matthew Weber
  • The ethnographic study of visual culture in the age of digitization / Paul Leonardi
  • Read/write the digital archive: strategies for historical web research / Megan Sapnar Ankerson
  • Big data, big problems, big opportunities : using internet log data to conduct social network analysis research / Brooke Foucault Welles
  • Contributors
  • References
  • Index.