The handbook of emergent technologies in social research /
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, c2011. |
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| Description: | xvii, 687 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8306405 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Handbook Editor
- Contributors
- Introduction: Emergent Technologies in Social Research: Pushing Against the Boundaries of Research Praxis
- Part I. Emergent Technologies in a Broad Social Research Context
- 1. Possible Dreams: Research Technologies and the Transformation of the Human Sciences
- 2. To Tell the Truth: The Internet and Emergent Epistemological Challenges in Social Research
- 3. Methodological Challenges Posed by Emergent Nanotechnologies and Cultural Values
- 4. "Under my Skin": The Ethics of Ambient Computing for Personal Health Monitoring
- 5. Ubiquitous Connectivity: User-Generated Data and the Role of the Researcher
- Part II. The Rise of Internet Technologies and Social Research Practice
- 6. Clickable Data: Hypermedia and Social Research
- 7. Emergent Digital Ethnographic Methods for Social Research
- 8. New Fieldsites, New Methods: New Ethnographic Opportunities
- 9. Online Focus Groups
- 10. Digital Repositories, Folksonomies, and Interdisciplinary Research:New Social Epistemology Tools
- Part III. Emergent Data Collection Methods: New Forms of Data Production
- 11. Studying Mailing Lists: Text, Temporality, Interaction, and Materiality at the Intersection of E-Mail and the Web
- 12. Online Data Collection and Data Analysis Using Emergent Technologies
- 13. Collaborative Research Tools: Using Wikis and Team Learning Systems to Collectively Create New Knowledge
- 14. Using Emerging Technologies in Focus Group Interviews
- 15. Toward Experimental Methods in Collaborative Computing Research
- 16. Emergent Technologies for Assessing Social Feelings and Experiences
- 17. Data Mining and Research: Applied Mathematics Reborn
- 18. Knowledge Mining and Managing: Emergent Tools and Technologies in Web-Based Intelligent Learning Environments
- Part IV. Audiovisual, Mobile, and Geospatial Technologies' Impact on the Social Research Process
- 19. The Use of Audiovisuals in Surveys
- 20. The Use of Mixed Methods Thinking in Documentary Development
- 21. Digital Storytelling as an Emergent Method for Social Research and Practice
- 22. Mobile Phones as Sensors for Social Research
- 23. Bringing the Research Lab into Everyday Life: Exploiting Sensitive Environments to Acquire Data for Social Research
- 24. Using Technology and the Experience Sampling Method to Understand Real Life
- 25. Geospatial Analysis Technology and Social Science Research
- 26. Methods, Examples, and Pitfalls in the Exploitation of the Geospatial Web
- Part V. The Impact of New Technologies for Studying Social Life in Naturalistic Settings
- 27. Living Laboratories: Social Research Applications and Evaluation
- 28. The Digital Home: A New Locus of Social Science Research
- Index