Digital Research Confidential by Eszter Hargittai

Digital Research Confidential by Eszter Hargittai

Behind-the-scenes stories of how Internet research projects actually get done.The realm of the digital offers both new methods of research and new objects of study. Because the digital environment for scholarship is constantly evolving, researchers must sometimes improvise, change their plans, and adapt. These details are often left out of research write-ups, leaving newcomers to the field frustrated when their approaches do not work as expected. Digital Research Confidential offers scholars a chance to learn from their fellow researchers' mistakes--and their successes. The book--a follow-up to Eszter Hargittai's widely read Research Confidential--presents behind-the-scenes, nuts-and-bolts stories of digital research projects, written by established and rising scholars. They discuss such challenges as archiving, Web crawling, crowdsourcing, and confidentiality. They do not shrink from specifics, describing such research hiccups as an ethnographic interview so emotionally draining that afterward the researcher retreated to a bathroom to cry, and the seemingly simple research question about Wikipedia that mushroomed into years of work on millions of data points. Digital Research Confidential will be an essential resource for scholars in every field.ContributorsMegan Sapnar Ankerson, danah boyd, Amy Bruckman, Casey Fiesler, Brooke Foucault Welles, Darren Gergle, Eric Gilbert, Eszter Hargittai, Brent Hecht, Aron Hsiao, Karrie Karahalios, Paul Leonardi, Kurt Luther, Vir g Moln r, Christian Sandvig, Aaron Shaw, Michelle Shumate, Matthew Weber

Hargittai, Eszter: - Eszter Hargittai is Professor in the Communication Studies Department and Faculty Associate of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, where she heads the Web Use Project. She is the editor of Research Confidential.

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ISBN 13	9780262528207
ISBN 10	0262528207
Title	Digital Research Confidential
Author	Eszter Hargittai
Series	Digital Research Confidential
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	MIT Press Ltd
Year published	2015-12-11
Number of pages	288
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