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1 online resource (287 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
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Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Social sciences -- Research.
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Social networks -- Research.
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Internet searching.
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Social scientists -- Attitudes.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hargittai, Eszter, 1973- editor.
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Sandvig, Christian, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Digital research confidential : the secrets of studying behavior online. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015] xi, 271 pages ; 24 cm 9780262528207 |
| ISBN |
9780262528207 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780262029889 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780262331227 (electronic bk.) |
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