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Doing Internet Research
Critical Issues and Methods for Examining the Net
Edited by:
- Steve Jones - University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
December 1998 | 328 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
The Internet is a medium with great consequences for social and economic life. This book is written to help people discern in what ways it has commanded the public imagination, and the methodological issues that arise when one tries to study and understand the social processes occurring within it. The contributors offer original responses in the search for, and critique of, methods with which to study the Internet and the social, political, economic, artistic, and communicative phenomena occurring within and around it.
James T Costigan
Introduction
Steve Jones
Studying the Net
Fay Sudweeks and Simeon J Simoff
Complementary Explorative Data Analysis
Lori Kendall
Recontextualizing `Cyberspace'
Laura Garton, Caroline Haythornthwaite and Barry Wellman
Studying On-line Social Networks
Norman K Denzin
Cybertalk and the Method of Instances
James J Sosnoski
Configuring as a Mode of Rhetorical Analysis
Diane F Witmer, Robert W Colman and Sandra Lee Katzman
From Paper-and-Pencil to Screen-and-Keyboard
Margaret McLaughlin et al
Measuring Internet Audiences
Ananda Mitra and Elisia Cohen
Analyzing the Web
Jan Fernback
There is a There There
Teresa M Harrison and Timothy Stephen
Researching and Creating Community Networks
Barbara F Sharf
Beyond Netiquette
Jonathan Sterne
Thinking the Internet
This is a helpful guide for those of us who use the Internet for research. Within the world digital learning, understanding how to maximise the potential for Internet research with appropriate methods is essential.
Department of Health, Health and Social Care Teaching Team
January 25, 2014
Good use of diagrams and tables to support the theory. Personal example used was very useful in reinforcing the theory
Lancashire Business School, University of Central Lancashire
February 22, 2013
