Full Description
Interested in digital technology and its impact on our everyday lives? This multidisciplinary book introduces you to the theories, concepts, and methods you need to research our digital society.
Drawing on diverse case studies and examples it gives you everything you need to understand and choose from a range of research designs, and to utilise and critique digital data from a variety of sources.
Learn more about:
· How technology shapes our society and how online and offline spaces impact each other
· Key methodologies and theories used to understand digital societies
· Approaches for studying different voices and communities in online spaces, including digital inequalities.
The perfect companion for students and researchers across the social sciences, this book is a fresh, practical introduction to research in the digital age.
Contents
Part 1: Understanding Social Research Design Through A Digital Lens
Chapter 1: Researching digital society - understand the sociotechnical
Chapter 2: The participant in digital research
Chapter 3: Ethics in Digital Research
Chapter 4: Traditional sociological methods and their role in exploring digital society
Part 2: Understanding Digital Society: Key Concerns For Digital Researchers
Chapter 5: Platformisation and design
Chapter 6: Living with technology - Removing the online/offline divide
Chapter 7: Space, place, touch, and materiality in digital research
Chapter 8: Digital Inequalities
Chapter 9: Big Data and issues of volume
Part 3: Researching Digital Society: Key Areas Of Research
Chapter 10: Researching digital audio and visuals
Chapter 11: Researching Digital Communities
Chapter 12: Researching Digital Identities
Chapter 13: Researching Digital Intimacies
Chapter 14: Researching Digital Activism and Power
