FW: Need expert advise - Internet and social behavior
Perhaps people on the AoIR list have some advice for Kate... ------ Forwarded Message From: Екатерина <kate_kot@ukr.net> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:07:36 +0300 Subject: need expert advise
Dear colleagues,
I'm studying at T. Shevchenko Kiev National University (Ukraine) - graduate (first year) at the department of methods and methodologies of sociological researches. Also I work at online research agency as a analytic. Aproximate topic of my thesis is "Methodological grounding of internet audience research", BUT in Ukraine there are no advanced scientists in this sphere and nobody can't advise me on what questions I should focus on, what is more or less important etc. I hope you'll be able to direct my research vector in the right direction. I want to show to Ukrainian scientific community that Internet audience is a source of sociologiacal information and we should study this audience, their socio-demografic characteristics, behavoir using different methods, techniques (I'm interesting in combination of site-centric and user-centric measurment). No one takes this subject seriously and I intend to prove the falsity of this position. Because, in my opinion, investigation of internet audience is very important not only for marketing goals, but for socioilogical especially.
P.S.: I am afraid that my work will be reduced to a banal and somehow not
quite significant for the science conclusions.
Thank you in advance.
Kind regards, Kate Tkachuk Ukarine, Kiev
+3 8 (066) 149 49 49 SKYPE - tkachuk_kateryna
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Janna, I am not a sociologist, as Kate is, but I am doing Internet research, and am myself a novice (first year of PhD). I think some good starting points would be: The challenge of changing audiences : or, what is the audience researcher to do in the age of the internet? Livingstone, Sonia (2004) ** *European journal of communication*, 19 (1). pp. 75-86. ISSN 1460-3705 http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/412/Doing Internet research: critical issues and methods for examining the Net By Steve Jones http://goo.gl/QW1Uf (Google Books) Virtual methods: issues in social research on the Internet By Christine Hine http://goo.gl/ykyUf (Google Books) Internet research methods: a practical guide for the social and behavioural sciences By Claire Hewson http://goo.gl/iARvM (Google Books)Kate is also welcome to contact me offlist and visit our Journalism School resource center (yes, I am also in Ukraine) to see if she can find any print books/periodicals she might find useful. Cheers, 2011/8/31 Janna Anderson <andersj@elon.edu>
Perhaps people on the AoIR list have some advice for Kate...
------ Forwarded Message From: Екатерина <kate_kot@ukr.net> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:07:36 +0300 Subject: need expert advise
Dear colleagues,
I'm studying at T. Shevchenko Kiev National University (Ukraine) - graduate (first year) at the department of methods and methodologies of sociological researches. Also I work at online research agency as a analytic.
Aproximate topic of my thesis is "Methodological grounding of internet audience research", BUT in Ukraine there are no advanced scientists in this sphere and nobody can't advise me on what questions I should focus on, what is more or less important etc. I hope you'll be able to direct my research vector in the right direction.
I want to show to Ukrainian scientific community that Internet audience is a source of sociologiacal information and we should study this audience, their socio-demografic characteristics, behavoir using different methods, techniques (I'm interesting in combination of site-centric and user-centric measurment). No one takes this subject seriously and I intend to prove the falsity of this position. Because, in my opinion, investigation of internet audience is very important not only for marketing goals, but for socioilogical especially.
P.S.: I am afraid that my work will be reduced to a banal and somehow not
quite significant for the science conclusions.
Thank you in advance.
Kind regards, Kate Tkachuk Ukarine, Kiev
+3 8 (066) 149 49 49 SKYPE - tkachuk_kateryna
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