2022-10-19
Online research methods are popular, dynamic and fast-changing. Following on from the great success of the first edition, published in 2008, The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, Second Edition offers both updates of existing subject areas and new chapters covering more recent developments, such as social media, big data, data visualization and CAQDAS.
Bringing togetherthe leading names in both qualitative and quantitative online research, this new edition is organised into nine sections:
1. Online Research Methods
2. Designing Online Research
3. Online Data Capture and Data Collection
4. The Online Survey
5. Digital Quantitative Analysis
6. Digital Text Analysis
7. Virtual Ethnography
8. Online Secondary Analysis: Resources and Methods
9. The Future of Online Social Research
The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, Second Edition is an essential resource for anyone interested in the contemporary practice of computer-mediated research and scholarship.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Online Research Methods are exploding in variety and importance. This new SAGE Handbook provides a much-needed comprehensive treatment of this dynamic and exciting field. From big data, semantic mining, AI, simulations, and visualizations to online focus groups,interviewing, ethnography, video-based research, and much more besides, this volume has everything you need for a broad and deep exploration of the new world of research online.
-- Robert Kozinets
In 2008 with the first and very successful edition of the Handbook, online research was characterized by its "newness" and by "caution". Today’s researchers are now "familiar" with online methods and "adept at their use", so the second edition of the Handbook has updated 27 chapters of the first edition and added nine chapters and two sections: "Digital Quantitative Analysis" and "Digital Text Analysis". Big data, gaming and participatory research are now also present. With a pragmatic focus on the current state-of-the-art, the new Handbook remains very attuned to the issues and challenges of online research and its methods.
-- Karl van Meter
Internet-based research methods is a diffuse and rapidly evolving area and this new edition of the Handbook of Online Research Methods provides a much needed overview and assessment of where it currently stands. As well as comprising some updated chapters, this new edition now includes chapters on many new areas, some of which were barely on the horizon when its predecessor was published. As such, this new edition provides much needed advice on the implementation of these methods and an appraisal of the state of the field. It will be invaluable to students and practitioners.
-- Alan Bryman
The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, Second Edition", edited by Nigel Fielding, Raymond Lee and Grant Blank, brings together several of the most noted scholars in the area of web and online survey methodology, along with the contributions of many younger researchers. The result is a compendium of information about online survey design, survey ethics, sampling and data capture, analysis of social network data, content analysis of digital text, online ethnography, and secondary analysis of online data, as well as essays relating online data to artificial intelligences, cartography, and diverse other topics. The authors are to be commended for an excellent update to their first edition, producing volume of significant value to those interested in online research methods, social science, and social theory.
-- Dave Garson
"The rapid growth of online communication technologies―social media, distributed internet use, and mobile devices
capable of recording and sharing information spontaneously―has expanded opportunities for researchers to collect and
use digital-born data. Keeping up with the methods for conducting studies in an online environment requires new ways of
thinking about the overall research process. This impressive handbook, written by an international team of scholars,
facilitates such conceptualization for both novice and experienced researchers...The handbook′s focus on
the social sciences makes one wish for a similarly useful companion handbook examining online research methods
applicable to the humanities and performing arts."
Summing Up: Highly recommended. Beginning students through professionals/practitioners. -- R. V. Labaree,, CHOICE Published On: 2017-09-01
Online research methods are popular, dynamic and fast-changing. Following on from the great success of the first edition, published in 2008, The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, Second Edition offers both updates of existing subject areas and new chapters covering more recent developments, such as social media, big data, data visualization and CAQDAS.
Bringing together the leading names in both qualitative and quantitative online research, this new edition is organised into nine sections:
1. Online Research Methods
2. Designing Online Research
3. Online Data Capture and Data Collection
4. The Online Survey
5. Digital Quantitative Analysis
6. Digital Text Analysis
7. Virtual Ethnography
8. Online Secondary Analysis: Resources and Methods
9. The Future of Online Social Research
The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, Second Edition is an essential resource for anyone interested in the contemporary practice of computer-mediated research and scholarship.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Online Research Methods are exploding in variety and importance. This new SAGE Handbook provides a much-needed comprehensive treatment of this dynamic and exciting field. From big data, semantic mining, AI, simulations, and visualizations to online focus groups,interviewing, ethnography, video-based research, and much more besides, this volume has everything you need for a broad and deep exploration of the new world of research online.
-- Robert Kozinets
In 2008 with the first and very successful edition of the Handbook, online research was characterized by its "newness" and by "caution". Today’s researchers are now "familiar" with online methods and "adept at their use", so the second edition of the Handbook has updated 27 chapters of the first edition and added nine chapters and two sections: "Digital Quantitative Analysis" and "Digital Text Analysis". Big data, gaming and participatory research are now also present. With a pragmatic focus on the current state-of-the-art, the new Handbook remains very attuned to the issues and challenges of online research and its methods.
-- Karl van Meter
Internet-based research methods is a diffuse and rapidly evolving area and this new edition of the Handbook of Online Research Methods provides a much needed overview and assessment of where it currently stands. As well as comprising some updated chapters, this new edition now includes chapters on many new areas, some of which were barely on the horizon when its predecessor was published. As such, this new edition provides much needed advice on the implementation of these methods and an appraisal of the state of the field. It will be invaluable to students and practitioners.
-- Alan Bryman
The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, Second Edition", edited by Nigel Fielding, Raymond Lee and Grant Blank, brings together several of the most noted scholars in the area of web and online survey methodology, along with the contributions of many younger researchers. The result is a compendium of information about online survey design, survey ethics, sampling and data capture, analysis of social network data, content analysis of digital text, online ethnography, and secondary analysis of online data, as well as essays relating online data to artificial intelligences, cartography, and diverse other topics. The authors are to be commended for an excellent update to their first edition, producing volume of significant value to those interested in online research methods, social science, and social theory.
-- Dave Garson
"The rapid growth of online communication technologies―social media, distributed internet use, and mobile devices
capable of recording and sharing information spontaneously―has expanded opportunities for researchers to collect and
use digital-born data. Keeping up with the methods for conducting studies in an online environment requires new ways of
thinking about the overall research process. This impressive handbook, written by an international team of scholars,
facilitates such conceptualization for both novice and experienced researchers...The handbook′s focus on
the social sciences makes one wish for a similarly useful companion handbook examining online research methods
applicable to the humanities and performing arts."
Summing Up: Highly recommended. Beginning students through professionals/practitioners. -- R. V. Labaree,, CHOICE Published On: 2017-09-01
Nigel G. Fielding, BA (Sussex) MA (Kent) PhD (LSE), is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His interests in research methodology include mixed methods, qualitative software, interview methods, field observation, and digitally mediated fieldwork. He has authored/edited 24 books, many in research methodolo...
Nigel G. Fielding, BA (Sussex) MA (Kent) PhD (LSE), is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His interests in research methodology include mixed methods, qualitative software, interview methods, field observation, and digitally mediated fieldwork. He has authored/edited 24 books, many in research methodology, most recently the second edition of the Handbook of online research methods (SAGE, 2017, with Grant Blank and Ray Lee).
Raymond M. Lee is Emeritus Professor of Social Research Methods at Royal Holloway University of London. He has written extensively about a range of methodological topics. These include the problems and issues involved in research on ‘sensitive’ topics, research in physically dangerous environments, the use of unobtrusive measures, and the role of new technologies in the research process. His current research focuses on the historical development of interviewing techniques.
Grant Blank is Survey Research Fellow at Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford. He is a sociologist who studies the social and cultural impact of the Internet and other new communication media. He is also interested in cultural sociology, especially reviews and cultural evaluation.Grant began his career as an independent consultant based in Chicago Illinois specializing in research design, statistical analysis, and database design. He previously taught at American University in Washington DC. He completed his PhD on the sociology of reviews at the University of Chicago in 1999, and joined OII in 2010.
目录“List of figures ix
List of tables xiii
Notes on the Editors and Contributors xv
Companion Website xxviii
PART I ONLINE RESEARCH METHODS 1
1 Online Research Methods in the Social Sciences: An Editorial Introduction 3
Raymond M. Lee, Nigel G. Fielding and Grant Blank
PART II DESIGNING ONLINE RESEARCH 17
2 The Ethics of Online Research 19
Rebecca Eynon, Jenny Fry and Ralph Schroeder
3 Data Quality in Online Environments 38
Karsten Boye Rasmussen
PART III ONLINE DATA CAPTURE AND DATA COLLECTION 55
4 Research Design and Tools for Online Research 57
Claire Hewson
5 Nonreactive Data Collection Online 76
Dietmar Janetzko
6 What’s New? The Applications of Data Mining and Big Data in the Social Sciences 92
Ayelet Baram-Tsabari, Elad Segev and Aviv J. Sharon
7 Of Instruments and Data: Social Media Uses, Abuses and Analysis 108
Martin Innes, Colin Roberts, Alun Preece and David Rogers
8 ‘Big Social Science’: Doing Big Data in the Social Sciences 125
Jonathan Bright
PART IV THE ONLINE SURVEY 141
9 Overview: Online Surveys 143
Vasja Vehovar and Katja Lozar Manfreda
10 Sampling Methods for Online Surveys 162
Ronald D. Fricker Jr
11 Online Survey Design 184
Vera Toepoel
12 Online Survey Software 203
Lars Kaczmirek
13 Improving the Effectiveness of Online Data Collection by Mixing Survey Modes 220
Don A. Dillman, Feng Hao and Morgan M. Millar
PART V DIGITAL QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS 239
14 Online Social networks: concepts for data collection and analysis 241
Bernie Hogan
15 Scale, Time and Activity Patterns: Advanced Methods for the Analysis of Online Networks 259
Javier Borge-Holthoefer and Sandra González-Bailón
16 Social Simulation and Online Research Methods 277
Corinna Elsenbroich
17 Games and Online Research Methods 295
Harko Verhagen, Magnus Johansson and Wander Jager
18 Data Visualisation as an Emerging Tool for Online Research 307
Helen Kennedy and William Allen
PART VI DIGITAL TEXT ANALYSIS 327
19 Online Tools for Content Analysis 329
Roel Popping
20 Sentiment Analysis for Small and Big Data 344
Mike Thelwall
21 Artificial Intelligence/Expert Systems and Online Research 361
Edward Brent
22 The blogosphere 380
Nicholas Hookway and Helene Snee
PART VII VIRTUAL ETHNOGRAPHY 399
23 Ethnographies of Online Communities and Social Media: Modes, Varieties, Affordances 401
Christine Hine
24 Online interviewing 416
Henrietta O’Connor and Clare Madge
25 Online focus groups 435
Katie M. Abrams with Ted J. Gaiser
26 Tools for Collaboration in Video-based Research 451
Jon Hindmarsh
27 CAQDAS at a Crossroads: Affordances of Technology in an Online Environment 470
Christina Silver and Sarah L. Bulloch
PART VIII ONLINE SECONDARY ANALYSIS: RESOURCES AND METHODS 487
28 Online Access to Quantitative Data Resources 489
Louise Corti and Jo Wathan
29 Secondary Qualitative Analysis Using Online Resources 509
Patrick Carmichael
30 Finding and Investigating Geographical Data Online 525
David Martin, Samantha Cockings and Samuel Leung
31 Mapping Spaces: Cartographic Representations of Online Data 542
Matthew Zook, Ate Poorthuis and Rich Donohue
PART IX THE FUTURE OF ONLINE SOCIAL RESEARCH 561
32 Engaging Remote Marginalized Communities Using Appropriate
Online Research Methods 563
Brian Beaton, David Perley, Chris George and Susan O’Donnell
33 Web- and Phone-Based Data Collection Using Planned Missing Designs 578
William Revelle, David M. Condon, Joshua Wilt, Jason A. French, Ashley Brown and Lorien G. Elleman
34 Social Cartography and ‘Knowing Capitalism’: Critical Reflections on Social Research and the Geo-Spatial Web 596
Harrison Smith, Michael Hardey†, Mariann Hardey and Roger Burrows
35 Online Environments and the Future of Social Science Research 611
Michael Fischer, Stephen Lyon and David Zeitlyn
36 Online Research Methods and Social Theory 628
Grant Blank
Index 643”