Hi, looks great and delighted to see there is a free sample Chapter 1 on the SAGE website if you follow the link! What are your thoughts on writing a web social science textbook now that you have survived the process ... SAO On Aug 7, 2013, at 11:00 AM, Robert Ackland wrote: Dear All, My new book _Web Social Science: Concepts, Data and Tools for Social Scientists in the Digital Age_ has finally made it to bookshops here in the Antipodes so I can now confirm that it is out. The book is organised as follows: Chapter 1 Introduction Part I: Web Social Science Methods Chapter 2 Online research methods Chapter 3 Social media networks Chapter 4 Hyperlink networks Part II: Web Social Science Examples Chapter 5 Friendship formation and social influence Chapter 6 Organisational collective behaviour Chapter 7 Politics and participation Chapter 8 Government and public policy Chapter 9 Production and collaboration Chapter 10 Commerce and marketing http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book234439?status=Forthcoming&classification=%2... sortBy=defaultPubDate%20desc&fs=1 http://www.amazon.com/Web-Social-Science-Concepts-Scientists/dp/1849204829/r... If you are using the book in your course, I might be able to provide a skype lecture on a particular chapter/topic. Timezones and class size (i.e. book sales!) may be a factor... Best regards, Rob -- Dr Robert Ackland Associate Professor, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, The Australian National University e-mail: robert.ackland@anu.edu.au homepage: https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/ackland-rj project: http://voson.anu.edu.au Information about the Master of Social Research (Social Science of the Internet specialisation): http://adsri.anu.edu.au/graduate-study/msr CRICOS No: 061772F -- _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ Sarah Oates Professor and Senior Scholar Philip Merrill College of Journalism University of Maryland 2100L Knight Hall College Park, MD 20742 Phone: 301-405-4510 Email: soates@umd.edu<mailto:soates@umd.edu> www.media-politics.com<http://www.media-politics.com> See an excerpt from my new book -- Revolution Stalled: The Political Limits of Internet in the Post-Soviet Sphere, 2013, Oxford University Press at http://goo.gl/HTcDd