Doing Internet Research : Critical Issues and Methods for Examining the Net

by Steve Jones

• ISBN13: 9780761915959
• ISBN10: 0761915958
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-11-03
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc

Summary

The Internet is a medium with great consequences for social and economic life. This book is written to help people discern in what ways it has commanded the public imagination, and the methodological issues that arise when one tries to study and understand the social processes occurring within it. The contributors offer original responses in the search for, and critique of, methods with which to study the Internet and the social, political, economic, artistic, and communicative phenomena occurring within and around it.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Forests, Trees and Internet Research - Steve Jones

Studying the Net

Intricacies and Issues - Fay Sudweeks and Simeon J Simoff

Complementary Explorative Data Analysis

The Reconciliation of Quantitative and Qualitative Principles - Lori Kendall

Recontextualizing `Cyberspace'

Methodological Considerations for On-line Research - Laura Garton, Caroline Haythornthwaite and Barry Wellman

Studying On-line Social Networks - Norman K Denzin

Cybertalk and the Method of Instances - James J Sosnoski

Configuring as a Mode of Rhetorical Analysis - Diane F Witmer, Robert W Colman and Sandra Lee Katzman

From Paper-and-Pencil to Screen-and-Keyboard

Toward a Methodology for Survey Research on the Internet - Margaret McLaughlin et al

Measuring Internet Audiences

Patrons of an On-line Art Museum - Ananda Mitra and Elisia Cohen

Analyzing the Web

Directions and Challenges - Jan Fernback

There is a There There

Notes toward a Definition of Cybercommunity - Teresa M Harrison and Timothy Stephen

Researching and Creating Community Networks - Barbara F Sharf

Beyond Netiquette

The Ethics of Doing Naturalistic Discourse Research on the Internet - Jonathan Sterne

Thinking the Internet

Cultural Studies versus the Millennium