Peter Halfpenny, Rob Procter

Innovations in Digital Research Methods

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An exciting new introduction to digital social research tools and methods, this book helps readers to manage the huge amounts of data available, and feel confident if they are attempting this sort of research for the first time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 746g
• ISBN-13: 9781446203088
• ISBN-10: 1446203085
• Artikelnr.: 42316634

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview - Peter Halfpenny and Rob Proctor
Chapter 2: The Changing Social Data Landscape - Kingsley Purdam and Mark
Elliot
Chapter 3: Exploiting New Sources of Data - Kingsley Purdam and Mark Elliot
Chapter 4: Survey Methods: Challenges and Opportunities - Joe Murphy
Chapter 5: Advances in Data Management for Social Survey - Paul S. Lambert
Chapter 6: Modelling and Simulation - Mark Birkin and Nick Malleson
Chapter 7: Contemporary developments in statistical software for social
scientists - Paul S. Lambert, William J. Browne and Danius T. Michaelides
Chapter 8: Text Mining and Social Media: When Quantitative Meets
Qualitative, and Software Meets People - Lawrence Ampofo, Simon Collister,
Ben O'Loughlin and Andrew Chadwick
Chapter 9: Digital Records and the Digital Replay System - Andy Crabtree,
Paul Tennent, Pat Brundell and Dawn Knight
Chapter 10: Social Network Analysis - Robert Ackland and Jonathan Zhu
Chapter 11: Visualising Spatial Data and Social Media - Michael Batty,
Steven Gray, Andrew Hudson-Smith, Richard Milton, Oliver O'Brien and Flora
Roumpani
Chapter 12: Ethical Praxis in e-Research - R.J. Anderson and Marina Jirotka
Chapter 13: Sociology and the Digital Challenge - Mike Savage

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Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview - Peter Halfpenny and Rob Proctor
Chapter 2: The Changing Social Data Landscape - Kingsley Purdam and Mark Elliot
Chapter 3: Exploiting New Sources of Data - Kingsley Purdam and Mark Elliot
Chapter 4: Survey Methods: Challenges and Opportunities - Joe Murphy
Chapter 5: Advances in Data Management for Social Survey - Paul S. Lambert
Chapter 6: Modelling and Simulation - Mark Birkin and Nick Malleson
Chapter 7: Contemporary developments in statistical software for social scientists - Paul S. Lambert, William J. Browne and Danius T. Michaelides
Chapter 8: Text Mining and Social Media: When Quantitative Meets Qualitative, and Software Meets People - Lawrence Ampofo, Simon Collister, Ben O'Loughlin and Andrew Chadwick
Chapter 9: Digital Records and the Digital Replay System - Andy Crabtree, Paul Tennent, Pat Brundell and Dawn Knight
Chapter 10: Social Network Analysis - Robert Ackland and Jonathan Zhu
Chapter 11: Visualising Spatial Data and Social Media - Michael Batty, Steven Gray, Andrew Hudson-Smith, Richard Milton, Oliver O'Brien and Flora Roumpani
Chapter 12: Ethical Praxis in e-Research - R.J. Anderson and Marina Jirotka
Chapter 13: Sociology and the Digital Challenge - Mike Savage

Rezensionen

From machine learning tweets to ethical considerations of Big Data, this timely book provides a highly interdisciplinary survey of innovative digital research methods. The book uniquely blurs qualitative and quantitative approaches to provide refreshingly forward-looking insights for those new to digital research, but also for those more experienced in the field. Dhiraj Murthy