ABSTRACT
As a social space, the web provides researchers both with a tool and an environment to explore the intricacies of everyday life. As a site of mediated interactions and interrelationships, the ‘digital’ has evolved from being a space of information to a space of creation, thus providing new opportunities regarding how, where and, why to conduct social research.
Doing Research In and On the Digital aims to deliver on two fronts: first, by detailing how researchers are devising and applying innovative research methods for and within the digital sphere, and, secondly, by discussing the ethical challenges and issues implied and encountered in such approaches.
In two core Parts, this collection explores:
- content collection: methods for harvesting digital data
- engaging research informants: digital participatory methods and data stories .
With contributions from a diverse range of fields such as anthropology, sociology, education, healthcare and psychology, this volume will particularly appeal to post-graduate students and early career researchers who are navigating through new terrain in their digital-mediated research endeavours.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|126 pages
Collecting content
chapter 2|20 pages
‘Feeling appy?’
chapter 3|17 pages
Adapting a method to use Facebook in education research
chapter 4|19 pages
An exploration of lived experience in a digital world
chapter 5|17 pages
Exploring breast cancer bloggers’ lived experiences of ‘survivorship’
chapter 8|18 pages
Remote ethnography, virtual presence
part II|79 pages
Engaging research informants