Doing research in and on the digital : research methods across fields of enquiry / edited by Cristina Costa and Jenna Condie.

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 d̀igital' has evolved from being a space of information to a space of creation, thus providing new oppo...

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Other Authors: Costa, Cristina (Lecturer in Lifelong Learning) (Editor), Condie, Jenna (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Series:Routledge advances in research methods ; 25.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1.Doing research in and on the digital / Jenna Condie
  • pt. I Collecting content: methods for harvesting digital data
  • 2.̀Feeling appy?': using App-based methodology to explore contextual effects on real-time cognitions, affect and behaviours / Iain Hamlin
  • 3.Adapting a method to use Facebook in education research: taking phenomenography online / Naomi Barnes
  • 4.An exploration of lived experience in a digital world: how technology is revolutionising substance misuse recovery / Michaela Jones
  • 5.Exploring breast cancer bloggers' lived experiences of ̀survivorship': the ethics of gaining access, analysing discourse and fulfilling academic requirements / Cathy Ure
  • 6.Text research on online platforms: heuristic steps and pitfalls / Tom Van Nuenbn
  • 7.Tinder matters: swiping right to unlock new research fields / Donna James.
  • Note continued: 8.Remote ethnography, virtual presence: exploring digital-visual methods for anthropological research on the web / Shireen Walton
  • pt. II Engaging research informants: digital participatory methods and data stories
  • 9.The visualisation of data in a digital context / Hannah L. Merdian
  • 10.Designing digital platforms for citizen data and public discourse on climate change / Lily Bui
  • 11.In search of lost purpose: the dream life of digital / Erinma Ochu
  • 12.Using digital stories in healthcare research: ethical and practical dilemmas / Pip Hardy
  • 13.Conclusion: (re-)exploring the practical and ethical contexts of digital research / Cristina Costa.