Summary
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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.
The Practicalities of Doing Digital Research
The Practicalities of Doing Digital Research
In this chapter we will:
- outline the different ways the digital context might contribute to research
- highlight key ethics issues that arise in digital research
- foreground the practical aspects of digital research
- suggest the skills required by the digital researcher
- discuss key pitfalls and provide advice for digital researchers.
Introduction
This chapter melds the previously discussed re-conceptualisations of research that have been outlined across the book into a set of pragmatic guidelines and suggestions to make the previous abstract discussion more concrete for those researchers engaging with digital research in the social sciences. The core themes of context and temporality will be returned to and the skills required to be a digital researcher will be explicated. We will illustrate how to defend your digital ...
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