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Virtual Methods Summary:By Christine Hine
Virtual Methods provides concrete advice for all stages of the research process. Anyone planning a research project involving the Internet will find this book an essential guide.
Can offline and online observations be combined? Are online interviews able to produce high quality data? How does a researcher sort through the vast mass of material available? From hyperlink analysis to the sex industry online, case studies sensitively highlight the difficulties researchers face, point out the opportunities to be seized, and offer practical solutions. Summary: what do you know across the net? Rating: 4 How easy is it to use the Internet for conducting research with subjects, as compared to traditional real world in-person interviews? This is just one of the issues confronted by Hine. The Internet's pervasive sweep offers a glittering opportunity for researchers to scale up their efforts, without being constrained by geographical extent. So various research fields are struggling to adapt. Hine points out many pitfalls that could tangle you up. Like the obvious one of how valid is an interview conducted on the net with one done in person? In both cases, you usually have to take some of the subject's background on trust. But with the Internet, you might not even know for sure the subject's gender or ethnicity. The virtual nature of the Internet gives rise to these and many more aspects. password: gigle.ws Please select one mirror to download
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