1st Edition

Doing Research In and On the Digital Research Methods across Fields of Inquiry

Edited By Cristina Costa, Jenna Condie Copyright 2018
226 Pages 1711 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

As a social space, the web provides researchers both with a tool and an environment to explore the intricacies of everyday life. As a site of mediated interactions and interrelationships, the ‘digital’ has evolved from being a space of information to a space of creation, thus providing new opportunities regarding how, where and, why to conduct social research. Doing Research In and On the... Read more

Chapter 1: Doing research in and on the digital

Cristina Costa, University of the West of England, UK & Jenna Condie, Western Sydney University, Australia

Part I: Collecting content: methods for harvesting digital data

Chapter 2: Feeling appy?: using app-based methodology to explore contextual effects on real-time cognitions, affect and behaviours

Linda K. Kaye, Rebecca L. Monk and Iain Hamlin, Edge Hill University, UK

Chapter 3: Adapting a method to use Facebook in education research: taking phenomenography online

Naomi Barnes, Griffith University, Australia

Chapter 4: An exploration of lived experience in a digital world: how technology is revolutionising substance misuse recovery

Stephanie Dugdale1, Sarah Elison-Davies1, Glyn Davies1, Jonathan Ward1, Michaela Jones2

1 Breaking Free Group, Manchester, UK 
2 in2recovery, Manchester, UK

Chapter 5: Exploring breast cancer bloggers’ lived experiences of ‘survivorship’: the ethics of gaining access, analysing discourse and fulfilling academic requirements

Cathy Ure, University of Salford, UK

Chapter 6: Text research on online platforms: heuristic steps and pitfalls

Tom Van Nuenen, Tilburg University, Holland

Chapter 7: Tinder matters: swiping right to unlock new research fields

Jenna Condie, Garth Lean, and Donna James, Western Sydney University, Australia

Chapter 8: Remote ethnography, virtual presence: exploring digital-visual methods for anthropological research on the web

Shireen Walton, University College London, UK

Part II: Engaging research informants: digital participatory methods and data stories

Chapter 9: The visualisation of data in a digital context

David A. Ellis, University of Lancaster and Hannah L. Merdian, University of Lincoln, UK

Chapter 10: Designing digital platforms for citizen data and public discourse on climate change

Lily Bui, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Chapter 11: In search of lost purpose: the dream life of digital

Erinma Ochu, University of Salford, UK

Chapter 12: Using digital stories in healthcare research: ethical and practical dilemmas

Carol Haigh, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK & Pip Hardy, Independent Researcher, UK

Chapter 13: Conclusion: (re-)exploring the practical and ethical contexts of digital research

Jenna Condie, Western Sydney University, Australia, & Cristina Costa, University of the West of England, UK

Biography

Cristina Costa is Associate Professor Digital Education and Society, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.

Jenna Condie is a Lecturer in Digital Research and Online Social Analysis at Western Sydney University, Australia.