A-Z of Digital Research Methods

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-48679-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 910 g

This accessible, alphabetical guide provides concise insights into a variety of digital research methods, incorporating introductory knowledge with practical application and further research implications. A-Z of Digital Research Methods provides a pathway through the often-confusing digital research landscape, while also addressing theoretical, ethical and legal issues that may accompany each methodology.

Dawson outlines 60 chapters on a wide range of qualitative and quantitative digital research methods, including textual, numerical, geographical and audio-visual methods. This book includes reflection questions, useful resources and key texts to encourage readers to fully engage with the methods and build a competent understanding of the benefits, disadvantages and appropriate usages of each method.

A-Z of Digital Research Methods is the perfect introduction for any student or researcher interested in digital research methods for social and computer sciences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dawson, Catherine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Introduction

- Agent-based modelling and simulation

- Audio analysis

- Big data analytics

- Business analytics

- Cluster analysis

- Coding and retrieval

- Computer modelling and simulation

- Computer-assisted interviewing

- Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS)

- Data analytics

- Data collection and conversion

- Data mining

- Data visualisation

- Digital ethnography

- Digital storytelling

- Digital visual methods

- Educational data mining

- Ethno-mining

- Eye-tracking research

- Game analytics

- Geospatial analysis

- HR analytics

- Information retrieval

- Learning analytics

- Link analysis

- Live audience response

- Location awareness and location tracking

- Log file analysis

- Machine learning

- Mobile diaries

- Mobile ethnography

- Mobile methods

- Mobile phone interviews

- Mobile phone surveys

- Online analytical processing

- Online collaboration tools

- Online ethnography

- Online experiments

- Online focus groups

- Online interviews

- Online observation

- Online panel research

- Online questionnaires

- Online research communities

- Predictive modelling

- Qualitative comparative analysis

- Research gamification

- Researching digital objects

- Sensor-based methods

- Smartphone app-based research

- Smartphone questionnaires

- Social media analytics

- Social network analysis

- Spatial analysis and modelling

- Video analysis

- Virtual world analysis

- Wearables-based research

- Web and mobile analytics

- Webometrics

- Zoning and zone mapping

Über Autor(innen)

Catherine Dawson is a freelance researcher and writer specialising in the use and teaching of research methods. She has taught research methods courses at universities in the UK, completed a variety of research projects using qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches, and written extensively on research methods and techniques.