Digital Qualitative Research Methods

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.

• VOLUME ONE: MAPPING THE FIELD OF DIGITAL QUALITATIVE RESEARCHSection 1: Researching Online CommunicationOverviews of methodological developments and directions in online researchInternet Research and the Sociology of Cyber-social Scientific Knowledge - C. HinePapers Discussing the Medium-specific Differences between Online and Offline Communication Interpersonal Effects in Computer-mediated Interaction - J. B. Walther Interpersonal Life Online - N. Baym Papers Discussing the Socially-specific Differences between Online and Offline InteractionGetting the Seats of our Pants Dirty: Strategies for Ethnographic Research on Virtual Communities - L. PaccagnellaMobile Phone Communication: Extending Goffman to Mediated Interaction - R. RettiePapers Discussing the Concept of Community and Social Solidarity/SupportBeyond the Diluted Community Concept: A Symbolic Interactionist Perspective on Online Social Relations - J. FernbackPapers on how to Interpret Online CommunicationIdentity as an Analytic Problem: Who′s Who in `Pro-Ana′ Websites? - M. Hammersley and P. TresederEntering the Blogosphere: Some Strategies for using Blogs in Social Research - HookwayPapers Addressing the ′Mundane Embeddedness′ of CMC in Daily LifeThe Social Affordances Of The Internet For Networked Individualism - Barry Wellman et alNew Media, Networking and Phatic Culture - V. MillerMethods for Capturing Mundane EmbeddednessConnective Ethnography for the Exploration of E-science - C. HineTracing the Everyday ′Sitings′ of Adolescents on the Internet: A Strategic Adaptation of Ethnography Across Online and Offline Spaces - K. M. Leander and K. K. McKimNetwork Ethnography and the Hypermedia Organisation: New Organisations, New Media, New Methods - P. HowardMulti-user Graphical Virtual Environments e.g. Second LifeAvatar-watching: Participant Observation in Graphical Online Environments - M. WilliamsThe Experience of Embodied Space in Virtual Worlds: An Ethnography of a Second Life Community - S. Bardzell and W. OdomSection 2: Online Research MethodsElectronic Interviewing, Participant Observation and Focus GroupsRealtime Interviewing Using the World Wide Web - P. Chen and S. M. HintonIn the Flesh or Online? Exploring Qualitative Research Methodologies - W. S. SeymourCharacteristics of the Discussion in Online and Face-to-Face Focus Groups - S. Schneider et alThe Internet as Research Context - A. N. MarkhamHow to Conceptualise the Internet as an Object of ResearchThe Web as an Object of Study - S. M. Schenider and K.A. FootVOLUME 2: MULTIMEDIA and HYPERMEDIASection 1: Multimedia and MultimodalityPapers Discussing the Importance of Multi-sensory and Multimedia in Contemporary EnvironmentsVisual and Sensory Cultures - Delamont, Atkinson and HousleyThere are no Visual Media - W. J. T. MitchellRemediation and the Desire for Immediacy - J. D. BolterInteractionist/Ethnomethodological PerspectivesThe Neglected Situation - E. GoffmanAction and Embodiment within Situated Human Interaction - C. GoodwinAnalysing Interaction: Video, Ethnography and Situated Conduct - S. Heath and HindmarshPapers on Sensory EthnographyAn Urban Tour: The Sensory Sociality of Ethnographic Place-making - S. PinkPapers on multimodalityMultimodal Discourse - G. Kress and T. Van LeeuwenMultimodal Ethnography - B. Dicks, B. Soyinka and A. CoffeyPapers Examining Specific Modes and how to Work with them in Qualitative ResearchSound and the Everyday - T. Hall, B. Lashua and A. CoffeyAnthropological Visions: Some Notes on Visual and Textual Authority - K. HastrupFraming Photographic Ethnography - D. HarperEscaping Reality: Digital Imagery and the Resources of Photography - B. E. SavedoffUsing Video to Investigate Preschool Classroom Interaction: Educational Research Assumptions and Methodological Assumptions - R. FlewittCreative Visual Methods in Media Research: Possibilities, Problems and Proposals - D. BuckinghamEthnography Bytes Back: Digitalizing Visual Anthropology - G. Murdock and S. PinkPapers on Hypertext and HypermediaBeyond Ethnographic Film: Hypermedia and Scholarship - P. BiellaGoing Beyond the Code: The Production of Hypermedia Ethnography - B. Dicks and B. MasonSocial Impacts of Computing: Revolutionary for Whom? - J. Yellow-Lees DouglasVOLUME THREE: DATA ANALYSISSection 1: Data Analysis in Sound, Vision and MultimediaPapers on Multimodal AnalysisAnalysing Multimodal Interaction - S. NorrisThe Implication of Visual Research for Discourse Analysis: Transcription beyond Language - N. NorrisMultimodality, Resemiotization: Extending the Analysis of Discourse as Multi-semiotic Practice - R. IedemaWhat are Multimodal Data and Transcription? - R. Flewitt et alPapers on Analysing Web-based DataTime to get Wired: Using Web-based Corpora in Critical Discourse Analysis - G. MautnerTravels in Hypermodality - J. LemkePapers on Hypermedia and AnalysisHypermedia and Ethnography: Reflections on the Construction of a Research Approach - B. Dicks and B. MasonPapers on Analysis of Sound DataThe Digital Revolution in Qualitative Research: Working with Digital Audio Data Through Atlas - W. Gibson et alStructuring Audio Data with a "C-TOC". An Example for Analysing Raw Data - Stefan HauptmannPapers on Visual AnalysisVisual Sociology Reframed: An Analytical Synthesis and Discussion of Visual Methods in Social and Cultural Research - L. PauwelsGoing Digital: Using New Technologies in Visual Sociology - P. ParmeggianiUsing Video for a Sequential and Multimodal Analysis of Social Interaction: Videotaping Institutional Telephone Calls - L. MondadaPapers on Qualitative GISTheorizing with GIS: A Tool for Critical Geographies? - M. PavlovskayaSection 1: CAQDAS: Approaches and DebatesPapers Discussing the Intellectual and Methodological Traditions Underpinning CAQDASQualitative Data Analysis: Technologies and Representations - A. Coffey, B. Holbrook and P. AtkinsonQualitative Data Analysis: Representations of a Technology: A Comment on Coffey, Holbrook and Atkinson - R. M. Lee and N. FieldingQualitative Computing - A Methods Revolution? - L. RichardsThe Wow Factor: Preconceptions and Expectations for Data Analysis Software in Qualitative Research - K. MacMillan and T. KoenigPapers Discussing Particular QDA Software ProgramsSoftware and Method: Reflections on Teaching and Using QSR NVivo in Doctoral Research - L. JohnstonNarrative Research with Audiovisual Data: Video Intervention/Prevention Assessment (VIA) and NVivo - M. Rich and J. PatashnickTesting Hypotheses on Qualitative Data: The Use of Hyper Research Computer-Assisted Software - S. Hesse-Biber and P. DupuisMaking Thinking Visible with Atlas.ti: Computer Assisted Qualitative Analysis as Textual Practices - Z. KonopásekSection 1: Archiving Qualitative DataPapers Covering Debates on Secondary AnalysisThe Data are out there or are they? Implications for Archiving and Revisiting Qualitative Data - Parry Mathner and Backett-MilburnWhose Data are they Anyway: Practical, Legal and Ethical Issues in Archiving Qualitative Research Data - O. Parry and N. Mauthner(Re)using Qualitative Data? - N. MooreCan We Re-Use Qualitative Data Via Secondary Analysis? Notes on Some Terminological and Substantive Issues - M. HammersleyEthnography and Data Reuse: Issues of Context and Hypertext - B. Dicks et alPapers on Ethics of Archiving in Internet AgeFrom Data Archive to Ethical Labyrinth - Annamaria Carusi and Marina JirotkaRecycling the Evidence: Different Approaches to the Reanalysis of Gerontological Data - Joanna BornatSection 2: Ethics in Digital Qualitative ResearchEthical Research in the Information Age: Beginning the Dialog - L. Schrum Informed Consent in Chat-rooms"Go Away": Participant Objections to Being Studied and the Ethics of Chatroom Research - J. M. Hudson and A. BruckmanEthical Dilemmas in Research on Internet Communities - Sarah Flicker, Dave Haans and Harvey SkinnerInternet as Human Subjects or Cultural Representations?Representations or People? - M. WhiteEthics in Visual Digital MediaThe Ethnographer′s Tale - Bill NicholsTaking and Using: Ethical Issues of Photographs for Research Purposes - Luc PauwelsIVSA Code of Research Ethics and Guidelines - Diana PapademasSection 3: Collaborating and Disseminating Digital Qualitative ResearchPapers Discussing use of the Grid for Collaboration and Sharing Grid Computing and Qualitative Social Research - N. FieldingSociological Engagements with Computing: the Advent of E-Science and Some Implications for the Qualitative Research Community - S. M. Hodgspm and T. ClarkVirtual Research Environments in Scholarly Work and Communications - A. Voss and R. ProcterPapers on Disseminating Multimedia Qualitative ResearchRecording Culture: Audio Documentary and the Ethnographic Experience - D. Makagon and M. NeumannSpatial Montage and Multimedia Ethnography: Using Computers to Visualise Aspects of Migration and Social Division Among a Displaced Community - Judith AstonColour as a Visual Signifier in Screen Typography: Less Means More - Jan Baetens