This handbook provides comprehensive coverage of contemporary and developing Internet and online social research methods, spanning both quantitative and qualitative research applications.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Notes on the Editors and Contributors
• PART I ONLINE RESEARCH METHODS
• 1 Online Research Methods in the Social Sciences: An Editorial Introduction - Raymond M. Lee, Nigel G. Fielding and Grant Blank
• PART II DESIGNING ONLINE RESEARCH
• 2 The Ethics of Online Research - Rebecca Eynon, Jenny Fry and Ralph Schroeder
• 3 Data Quality in Online Environments - Karsten Boye Rasmussen
• PART III ONLINE DATA CAPTURE AND DATA COLLECTION
• 4 Research Design and Tools for Online Research - Claire Hewson
• 5 Nonreactive Data Collection Online - Dietmar Janetzko
• 6 What's New? The Applications of Data Mining and Big Data in the Social Sciences - Ayelet Baram-Tsabari, Elad Segev and Aviv J. Sharon
• 7 Of Instruments and Data: Social Media Uses, Abuses and Analysis - Martin Innes, Colin Roberts, Alun Preece and David Rogers
• 8 ‘Big Social Science’: Doing Big Data in the Social Sciences - Jonathan Bright
• PART IV THE ONLINE SURVEY
• 9 Overview: Online Surveys - Vasja Vehovar and Katja Lozar Manfreda
• 10 Sampling Methods for Online Surveys - Ronald D. Fricker Jr
• 11 Online Survey Design - Vera Toepoel
• 12 Online Survey Software - Lars Kaczmirek
• 13 Improving the Effectiveness of Online Data Collection by Mixing Survey Modes - Don A. Dillman, Feng Hao and Morgan M. Millar
• PART V DIGITAL QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS
• 14 Online Social Networks: Concepts for Data Collection and Analysis - Bernie Hogan
• 15 Scale, Time and Activity Patterns: Advanced Methods for the Analysis of Online Networks - Javier Borge-Holthoefer and Sandra González-Bailón
• 16 Social Simulation and Online Research Methods - Corinna Elsenbroich
• 17 Games and Online Research Methods - Harko Verhagen, Magnus Johansson and Wander Jager
• 18 Data Visualisation as an Emerging Tool for Online Research - Helen Kennedy and William Allen
• PART VI DIGITAL TEXT ANALYSIS
• 19 Online Tools for Content Analysis - Roel Popping
• 20 Sentiment Analysis for Small and Big Data - Mike Thelwall
• 21 Artificial Intelligence/Expert Systems and Online Research - Edward Brent
• 22 The Blogosphere - Nicholas Hookway and Helene Snee
• PART VII VIRTUAL ETHNOGRAPHY
• 23 Ethnographies of Online Communities and Social Media: Modes, Varieties, Affordances - Christine Hine
• 24 Online Interviewing - Henrietta O'Connor and Clare Madge
• 25 Online Focus Groups - Katie M. Abrams with Ted J. Gaiser
• 26 Tools for Collaboration in Video-based Research - Jon Hindmarsh
• 27 CAQDAS at a Crossroads: Affordances of Technology in an Online Environment - Christina Silver and Sarah L. Bulloch
• PART VIII ONLINE SECONDARY ANALYSIS: RESOURCES AND METHODS
• 28 Online Access to Quantitative Data Resources - Louise Corti and Jo Wathan
• 29 Secondary Qualitative Analysis Using Online Resources - Patrick Carmichael
• 30 Finding and Investigating Geographical Data Online - David Martin, Samantha Cockings and Samuel Leung
• 31 Mapping Spaces: Cartographic Representations of Online Data - Matthew Zook, Ate Poorthuis and Rich Donohue
• PART IX THE FUTURE OF ONLINE SOCIAL RESEARCH
• 32 Engaging Remote Marginalized Communities Using Appropriate Online Research Methods - Brian Beaton, David Perley, Chris George and Susan O'Donnell
• 33 Web- and Phone-Based Data Collection Using Planned Missing Designs - William Revelle, David M. Condon, Joshua Wilt, Jason A. French, Ashley Brown and Lorien G. Elleman
• 34 Social Cartography and‘Knowing Capitalism’: Critical Reflections on Social Research and the Geo-Spatial Web - Harrison Smith, Michael Hardey†, Mariann Hardey and Roger Burrows
• 35 Online Environments and the Future of Social Science Research - Michael Fischer, Stephen Lyon and David Zeitlyn
• 36 Online Research Methods and Social Theory - Grant Blank
• Name Index
• Subject Index