This accessible, alphabetical guide provides concise insights into a variety of digital research methods, incorporating introductory knowledge with practical application and further research implications. A-Z of Digital Research Methods provides a pathway through the often-confusing digital research landscape, while also addressing theoretical, ethical and legal issues that may accompany each methodology.
Dawson outlines 60 chapters on a wide range of qualitative and quantitative digital research methods, including textual, numerical, geographical and audio-visual methods. This book includes reflection questions, useful resources and key texts to encourage readers to fully engage with the methods and build a competent understanding of the benefits, disadvantages and appropriate usages of each method.
A-Z of Digital Research Methods is the perfect introduction for any student or researcher interested in digital research methods for social and computer sciences.
Contents
Introduction
- Agent-based modelling and simulation
- Audio analysis
- Big data analytics
- Business analytics
- Cluster analysis
- Coding and retrieval
- Computer modelling and simulation
- Computer-assisted interviewing
- Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS)
- Data analytics
- Data collection and conversion
- Data mining
- Data visualisation
- Digital ethnography
- Digital storytelling
- Digital visual methods
- Educational data mining
- Ethno-mining
- Eye-tracking research
- Game analytics
- Geospatial analysis
- HR analytics
- Information retrieval
- Learning analytics
- Link analysis
- Live audience response
- Location awareness and location tracking
- Log file analysis
- Machine learning
- Mobile diaries
- Mobile ethnography
- Mobile methods
- Mobile phone interviews
- Mobile phone surveys
- Online analytical processing
- Online collaboration tools
- Online ethnography
- Online experiments
- Online focus groups
- Online interviews
- Online observation
- Online panel research
- Online questionnaires
- Online research communities
- Predictive modelling
- Qualitative comparative analysis
- Research gamification
- Researching digital objects
- Sensor-based methods
- Smartphone app-based research
- Smartphone questionnaires
- Social media analytics
- Social network analysis
- Spatial analysis and modelling
- Video analysis
- Virtual world analysis
- Wearables-based research
- Web and mobile analytics
- Webometrics
- Zoning and zone mapping
Biography
Catherine Dawson is a freelance researcher and writer specialising in the use and teaching of research methods. She has taught research methods courses at universities in the UK, completed a variety of research projects using qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches, and written extensively on research methods and techniques.
