Book section
Online Research Methods and Social Theory
- Abstract:
- The enormous growth in online activities has created all sorts of new opportunities for research. These opportunities are theoretical as well as methodological. The theoretical opportunities have been present in prior chapters but never emphasized; this chapter brings theory into focus without losing sight of methods. Specifically, the chapter discusses the explanatory power of theory based on online methodologies to address important social issues. Using this goal it describes three themes common to the preceding chapters: the volume of data, additional computer resources, and the ‘qualitative analysis bottleneck’. Each theme presents problems as well as opportunities, and the goal of this chapter is to explore how methods and theory work together to define and mitigate the problems as well as to exploit the opportunities.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Reviewed (other)
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- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications
- Host title:
- Sage handbook of online research methods
- Place of publication:
- London
- Publication date:
- 2017-01-14
- Edition:
- 1st
- DOI:
- ISBN:
- 9781473918788
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
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pubs:826019
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
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- Source identifiers:
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826019
- Deposit date:
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2018-02-23
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Blank
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © Grant Blank, 2017.
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