When it came time for me to do my prelims, my advisor and I chose Steve Jones's /Doing Internet Research /as one of my main Internet Studies methods texts. Even though it's a bit dated today we felt that it offered a nice balance of context and case studies from which one could pull methodological approaches. -Rob -- Rob Baron PhD Candidate& Graduate Instructor Rhetoric, Scientific and Technical Communication Department of Writing Studies University of Minnesota-Twin Cities On 7/21/2011 6:58 AM, Andrew Herman wrote:
I would actually like to see what people suggest here as I imagine others would as well, so please keep this on list!
AH
Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor and Chairperson Department of Communication Studies Graduate Program in Cultural Analysis and Social Theory Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693
Ted Coopman<ted.coopman@gmail.com> 07/20/11 6:44 PM>>> All,
I am looking for a new (one) comprehensive text for an Internet Research Methods course, current title: Inquiry in Internet Communication. Here is the catalog description.
"Examines the internet as both a site of and a tool of communication research. Special attention to legal and ethical concerns associated with internet communication research."
This is an upper division 4 unit research methods course. I am currently using Hine's "Virtual Methods: Issues in Social Research on the Internet" which is fine but the research is a bit dated (ah, the hell of "everything is dated once it hits the page" for teaching internet/new media anything) and while I use workshops on specific research methods (interviewing, surveys, etc.) I am looking for something more textbook-like with a structured approach. It needs to include both qualitative and quantitative approaches.
I get them out collecting and coding data for two projects per semester.
Online resources, a convergence approach that includes other media, and a "tool box" theoretical/epistemological approach are a bonus.
Lately I have noticed a few coming out, but wanted to tap the collective expertise of the list for some solid recommendations.
Feel free to contact me off list, I will (as always) compile and post).
Thanks,
-TED
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