Qualitative Research and Hypermedia

Ethnography for the Digital Age

AvBella Dicks,Bruce Mason

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

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Beskrivning

Digital culture and digital technologies have rapidly become unavoidable and essential forms of social experience and communication in our emerging globalised society. If we want to attempt to analyse and understand our technology-saturated society, and all its new media, then we must also develop research methods and forms of analysis that can accommodate and exploit digital culture and digital technologies.

This important new methods text sets out to equip qualitative researchers with the tools necessary to conduct ethnography in the age of email and the internet. It will investigate how digital technologies potentially transform the ways in which we do research. This text also introduces the reader to new emerging methods that utilise new technologies and explains how to conduct data collection, analysis and representation using new technologies and `hypermedia'.

Essential reading for any student or researcher interested in qualitative research in an age of hypermedia, this text:

- explains how digital technology impacts on social research;

- investigates how digital technology has reshaped the field of social research;

- consider the implications of bringing multimedia into the forefront of qualitative research;

- suggests new ways of observing and documenting a `technologised' and design-rich society;

- enables the reader to use new technologies to handle and represent qualitative data;

- unpacks the theoretical implications of writing and researching for the electronic screen

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-10-14
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:450 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Technologies for Social Research series
Antal sidor:208
Upplaga:1
Förlag:SAGE Publications
ISBN:9780761960973

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Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Bella Dicks is a sociologist specialising in qualitative methodology and ethnography, with a focus on digital and multimodal methods. She edited the four-volume Digital Qualitative Research Methods for the SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods series (2012). Her other major research interests are in heritage, museum studies, cultural memory, class and cultural policy. My research interests are underpinned by a sustained, critical methodological engagement with ethnographic and qualitative research. This includes work on contemporary developments in qualitative data analysis, writing and representation, as well as a focus on of the self and (auto)biography in qualitative inquiry. I have led and been involved in a number of funded projects focussing on qualitative research methods and methodological development. I am currently the Director of the Cardiff Node of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) Qualitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences: Innovation, Integration and Impact (QUALITI) (2005-8). Paul Atkinson is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University. Recent publications include For Ethnography (SAGE 2014) and Thinking Ethnographically (SAGE 2017). The fourth book in his quartet will be Crafting Ethnography, also for SAGE. The fourth edition of Hammersley and Atkinson Ethnography: Principles in Practice was published by Routledge in 2019. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and of the Learned Society of Wales.

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionQualitative Research for the Digital WorldHypertext, Hypermedia and Qualitative MethodsEthnographic ParadigmsTechnologies and RepresentationsHypertext Roots/RoutesMulti-Semiotic EthnographyThe Hypermedia ToolboxHypermedia FieldworkHypermedia Data AnalysisHypermedia Representation