Summary
Contents
Subject index
A guide to understanding digital research from both a conceptual and practical perspective, helping the reader to make sense of the issues, challenges and opportunities of social science research in the digital age. The book will help the reader to understand how the digital context impacts on social science research and is divided into three main sections: • A Justification & Reconceptualization of Digital Research: The authors explore how far the digital environment is transforming social science research. • Accessing Digital Data: An outline of the characteristics of digital data, temporality issues in digital research and different data sources. • Moving Forward with Digital Research: Examining the practicalities of how to conduct digital research, with examples and suggestions to strengthen the implementation of digital research. Suitable for Masters and Doctoral students undertaking digital or online research methods courses, as well as anyone doing a research project or dissertation with an online component.
Characteristics of Digital Data
Characteristics of Digital Data
In this chapter we will:
- discuss how the digital domain requires us to reconceptualise data sources
- outline new developments in data formats and the implications for researchers
- consider the opportunities provided by co-produced and co-created data
- suggest ways in which the new data formats may be evaluated.
Introduction
There are now genuine opportunities for knowledge gaps to be filled through the use of digital research. As we alter the ways in which we think about how and why research may be conducted, and as we question the established norms and divisions within schools of research methods, we may create fresh insight through digital data and new approaches to analysing data. New perspectives and novel methods can create fresh insight but within the social sciences, there ...
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