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Research Exposed
How Empirical Social Science Gets Done in the Digital Age
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Eszter Hargittai
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English
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2021
About this book
Research Exposed offers in-depth, behind-the-scenes accounts of doing empirical social science in the era of digital communication. Through firsthand descriptions of innovative research projects, it shares lessons learned from over a dozen scholars’ cutting-edge work.
Author / Editor information
Eszter Hargittai is professor and chair of internet use and society at the Institute of Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich. She is the editor of Research Confidential: Solutions to Problems Most Social Scientists Pretend They Never Have (2009) and coeditor of Digital Research Confidential: The Secrets of Studying Behavior Online (2015).
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Kirsten Foot, coeditor of Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Media, and Society:
Research Exposed contributes significantly to extant literature, demystifying aspects of social scientific research methods that involve digital technologies.
Research Exposed contributes significantly to extant literature, demystifying aspects of social scientific research methods that involve digital technologies.
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CONTENTS
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Introduction
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Chapter One When Social Media Data Disappear
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Chapter Two The Needle in the Haystack: Finding Social Bots on Twitter
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Chapter Three Meeting Youth Where They Are: Challenges and Lessons Learned from Social Media Recruitment for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth
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Chapter Four Qualitative Sampling and Internet Research
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Chapter Five Behind the Red Lights: Methods for Investigating the Digital Security and Privacy Experiences of Sex Workers
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Chapter Six Using Unexpected Data to Study Up: Washington Political Journalism (and the Case of the Missing Press Pass)
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Chapter Seven Social Media and Ethnographic Relationships
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Chapter Eight Ethnographic Research with People Experiencing Homelessness in the Digital Age
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Chapter Nine Going Rural: Personal Notes from a Mixed-Methods Project on Digital Media in Remote Communities
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Chapter Ten Stitching Data: A Multimodal Approach to Learning About Independent Artists’ Social Media Use
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Chapter Eleven A Measurement Burst Study of Media Use and Well-Being Among Older Adults: Logistically Challenging at Best
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Chapter Twelve Community-Based Intervention Research Strategies: Digital Inclusion for Marginalized Populations
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Contributors
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Index
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eBook published on:
December 10, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9780231548007
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eBook ISBN:
9780231548007
Keywords for this book
social science methodology; research methods; empirical social science; social media research
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
