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Digital Methods for Social Science

An Interdisciplinary Guide to Research Innovation

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Editors:
  1. Helene Snee

    1. Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

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  2. Christine Hine

    1. University of Surrey, UK

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  3. Yvette Morey

    1. Centre for the Study of Behaviour Change and Influence, University of the West of England, UK

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  4. Steven Roberts

    1. Monash University, Australia

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  5. Hayley Watson

    1. Trilateral Research and Consulting, UK

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology: An Introduction

    1. Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology: An Introduction

      • Helene Snee, Christine Hine, Yvette Morey, Steven Roberts, Hayley Watson
      Pages 1-11

  4. Combining and Comparing Methods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-70
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    2. Mixing Modes to Widen Research Participation

      • Jo Hope
      Pages 71-86

    3. Do We Need Polls? Why Twitter Will Not Replace Opinion Surveys, but Can Complement Them

      • Javier Sajuria, Jorge Fábrega
      Pages 87-104

    4. Video Analysis in Digital Literacy Studies: Exploring Innovative Methods

      • Roberto de Roock, Ibrar Bhatt, Jonathon Adams
      Pages 105-121

  6. Digital Research: Challenges and Contentions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-174
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    2. What’s the Matter with MOOCs? Socio-material Methodologies for Educational Research

      • Jeremy Knox
      Pages 175-189

    3. Towards an Innovative Inclusion: Using Digital Methods with Young People

      • Emma Bond, Stuart Agnew
      Pages 190-205

    4. Ethics Issues in Digital Methods Research

      • Claire Hewson
      Pages 206-221

    5. Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology: Conclusions

      • Helene Snee, Christine Hine, Yvette Morey, Steven Roberts, Hayley Watson
      Pages 222-230

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 231-234
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About this book

This timely book inspires researchers to deploy relevant, effective, innovative digital methods. It explores the relationship of such methods to 'mainstream' social science; interdisciplinarity; innovations in digital research tools; the opportunities (and challenges) of digital methods in researching social life; and digital research ethics.

Reviews

'Digital methods offer important opportunities and challenges for researchers across the social sciences. This exciting text brings a welcome critical edge to discussions of digital methods, showcasing the work of new and more established researchers, and making important connections between academic disciplines.' Christine Griffin, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Bath, UK

'This exciting volume brings together a diverse group of scholars who have both experimented with and reflected deeply about the opportunities and challenges facing social scientists wanting to make use of digital data and methods. The contributions will be of great value to students wanting to learn about the full range of methods now available to them as well as more established colleagues who are unsure about how to integrate digital methods into their existing research repertoires.' Sally Wyatt, Professor of Digital Cultures, Maastricht University, and Programme Leader of the eHumanities Group, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

'This is an extremely important and informative text because it is one of the first to situate digital methods within social science methodology. It identifies the issues of using digital methods within a broad range of social science methods and in so doing shows how digital methods can contribute to the research questions that social scientists ask.' Bridgette Wessels, Reader in Digital Sociology, University of Sheffield, UK

Editors and Affiliations

  • Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

    Helene Snee

  • University of Surrey, UK

    Christine Hine

  • Centre for the Study of Behaviour Change and Influence, University of the West of England, UK

    Yvette Morey

  • Monash University, Australia

    Steven Roberts

  • Trilateral Research and Consulting, UK

    Hayley Watson

About the editors

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

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