In an era of constrained research budgets, online interviewing opens up immense possibilities: A researcher can literally conduct a global study without ever leaving home. But more than a decade after these technologies started to become available, there are still few studies on how to utilize online interviews in research. This book provides 10 cases of research conducted using online interviews, with data collected through text-based, videoconferencing, multichannel meeting, and immersive 3-D environments. Each case is followed by two commentaries: one from another expert contributor, the second from Janet Salmons as editor.

A open-access companion website at http://www.sagepub.com/salmons provides sample syllabi, assignment ideas, links to other work by the book's contributors, and guidelines for utilizing the book's E-Interview Research Framework.

Hybrid on- and Offline Interviews: Videoconference, Text, Meeting Tools, E-Mail, and Face-to-Face Interviews

Hybrid on- and Offline Interviews: Videoconference, Text, Meeting Tools, E-Mail, and Face-to-Face Interviews

The cases in this section describe varying combinations of synchronous and asynchronous approaches for online interviews. These studies, perhaps more than those in prior sections, focus on the preferences of research participants and ...

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