Claire Hewson, Carl Vogel, Dianna Laurent

Gebundenes Buch

Internet Research Methods

Beschreibung

Updated to reflect current developments and trends in internet research, this book presents a state-of-the-art review of the Internet as a tool for conducting research in the social and behavioural sciences.

Autor

Claire Hewson is Lecturer in Psychology at The Open University. She has a long-standing interest in using the Internet to carry out primary research, and has collected data using a range of IMR methods including surveys, psychometrics and experiments, to investigate issues in: commonsense understanding, particularly folk psychology; online assessment methods in an educational context; the validity of IMR  methods. She was commissioned to lead a working party to produce the recent British Psychological Society (BPS) guidelines on ethics in Internet-mediated research (2013), has delivered a number of talks and training sessions on this and related topics, and has published more broadly in the area of IMR

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Second Edition
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 587g
• ISBN-13: 9781446208557
• ISBN-10: 1446208559
• Artikelnr.: 43708050

Rezensionen

Written from the perspective of psychology and cognitive science, this interdisciplinary book offers a valuable introduction to both quantitative and qualitative Internet research methods. With many hands-on examples, it is a practical guide to dos and don ts of the profession.

Dr. Lars Kaczmirek