Online Social Research : Methods, Issues and Ethics,9780820461014

Online Social Research : Methods, Issues and Ethics

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ISBN13: 9780820461014
ISBN10: 0820461016
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-12-01
Publisher(s): Peter Lang Pub Inc
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Online Environments and Social Research Interpretive 1(14)
Norman K. Denzin
Part I-Methods of Online Social Research
Introduction: Environments and the Evolution of Social Research Methods
15(10)
Clifford G. Christians
Sanna Chen
Reengineering Focus Group Methodology for the Online Environment
25(22)
Matthew Williams
Kate Robson
Researching OURNET: A Case Study of a Methods Approach Multiple
47(16)
Sharon S. Kleinman
Visibility, Intimacy, and Focus in Online Critical Ethnography Managing
63(18)
Kathleen LeBesco
"Seeing and Sensing" Online Interaction: An Interpretive Interactionist Approach to USENET Support Group Research
81(20)
Mary K. Walstrom
Part II-Issues of Online Social Research
Introduction: Opportunities and Challenges in Methodology and Ethics
101(4)
Amy B. Bruckman
Surviving the IRB Review: Institutional Guidelines and Research Strategies
105(20)
Mark D. Johns
G. Jon Hall
Tara Lynn Crowell
Participants and Observers in Online Ethnography: Five Stories About Identity
125(16)
Lori Kendall
Representation in Online Ethnographies: A Matter of Context Sensitivity
141(16)
Annette N. Markham
Research Paparazzi in Cyberspace: The Voices of the Researched
157(22)
Shing-Ling Sarna Chen
G. Jon Hall
Mark D. Johns
Part III-Ethics of Online Social Research
Introduction: Ethics and Internet Studies
179(8)
Steve Jones
Reexamining the Ethics of Internet Research: Facing the Challenge of Overzealous Oversight
187(16)
Jim Thomas
Issues of Attribution and Identification in Online Social Research
203(20)
Susan B. Barnes
"Electronic Eavesdropping": The Ethical Issues Involved in Conducting a Virtual Ethnography
223(16)
Katherine M. Clegg Smith
"NEED HELP ASAP!!!": A Feminist Communitarian Approach to Online Research Ethics
239(14)
G. Jon Hall
Douglas Frederick
Mark D. Johns
Epilogue; Are We There Yet? Emerging Ethical Guidelines for Online Research 253(12)
Charles Ess
List of Contributors 265(6)
Index 271

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