how can i get started in becoming an internet researcher? I am very new to all of this. Vanessa _________________________________________________________________ Get FREE company branded e-mail accounts and business Web site from Microsoft Office Live http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/mcrssaub0050001411mrt/direct/01/
Dear Vanessa, I think the Internet has become the cneter form many studies, but I gues their basis are still well-known. For exemple, you might start by searching for connections between readign a print text and the hypertext, or the digital divide, or you could do a study showing the resistence some people have to Internet...all these studies must be connected to a field or science branch.. What have you been studying currently? Eliezer Ferreira Professor of English Center of Arts and Letters UFPE/Brazil Vanessa Gonzalez <vig101@hotmail.com> escreveu: how can i get started in becoming an internet researcher? I am very new to all of this. Vanessa _________________________________________________________________ Get FREE company branded e-mail accounts and business Web site from Microsoft Office Live http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/mcrssaub0050001411mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ 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/ --------------------------------- Você quer respostas para suas perguntas? Ou você sabe muito e quer compartilhar seu conhecimento? Experimente o Yahoo! Respostas!
Do you mean "How do I begin to research what the internet is?" or "How do I research how people use the internet?" Or "How do I do research using the internet as a tool?" Or maybe something else entirely. As you may have gathered already, this is not a small or simple field. There are many aspects to the term 'internet researcher'. You might want to think about what it is about the internet you want to find out - e.g. what your research areas/questions/discipline/interests are. M-H Vanessa Gonzalez wrote:
how can i get started in becoming an internet researcher? I am very new to all of this.
Vanessa
Hi Vanessa. I can only echo Mary-Helen's response...Internet research is a very complex research area. My research team focuses on the new literacies of reading on the Internet from an education standpoint. You can see our work at: http://newliteracies.uconn.edu You can also visit the Oxford Internet Institute webpage for additional ideas about Internet research: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/ There are many, many more groups that focus on Internet research as well. Best, Laurie Laurie A. Henry New Literacies Research Team University of Connecticut (860) 486-4634 Lab laurie.henry@uconn.edu http://www.newliteracies.uconn.edu "If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all." --Michelangelo On 11/2/06 11:54 PM, "Mary-Helen Ward" <mhward@usyd.edu.au> wrote:
Do you mean "How do I begin to research what the internet is?" or "How do I research how people use the internet?" Or "How do I do research using the internet as a tool?" Or maybe something else entirely.
As you may have gathered already, this is not a small or simple field. There are many aspects to the term 'internet researcher'. You might want to think about what it is about the internet you want to find out - e.g. what your research areas/questions/discipline/interests are.
M-H
Vanessa Gonzalez wrote:
how can i get started in becoming an internet researcher? I am very new to all of this.
Vanessa
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Internet research, or more exactly internet scholarship is the topic of my PhD. So I rather assume it exists, at least for the 200 pages or so of work I have written to describe it. It is controversial about whether it is a field of study. David Silver has usefully called it a meta-field - Silver, D. 2004. Internet/cyberculture/digital culture/new media/fill-in-the-blank studies. New Media & Society, 6(1), 55-64. The special issue of TIS (below) should cover or at least list a few of the major perspectives on it - Baym, N. (Guest editor) 2005. Special issue of The Information Society: ICT research and disciplinary boundaries: Is Internet research a virtual field, a proto-discipline, or something else? The Information Society, 21(4). I examine it from a perspective of hybridized disciplinarity plus operational challenges and refer to internet studies as an emergent field of study with roots in many other fields. Web studies has not become the acceptable term at least so far (Silver 2004) but see - Gauntlett, D. (Ed.). 2000. Web.studies. London: Arnold. I believe there is an updated version of this book. For "HOW TO BECOME" an internet researcher, I would recommend the following, at least for academic work: - Thelwall, M. 2004. Link Analysis: An Information Science Approach. San Diego: Academic Press. At least it explains what link analysis is and what it is used for. Other types of internet research have been usefully explained in several books: - Batinic, B., Reips, U.-D., & Bosnjak, M. (Eds.). 2002. Online Social Sciences. Seattle: Hogrefe & Huber. - Jones, S. (Ed.). 1999. Doing internet research: Critical issues and methods for examining the Net. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. - Mann, C., & Stewart, F. 2000. Internet communication and qualitative research: A handbook for researching online. London: Sage. - Hine, C. (Ed.). 2005. Virtual methods: Issues in social research on the Internet. Oxford: Berg Publishers. Cheers, Denise Denise N. Rall, PhD thesis submitted, School of Environ. Science, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA Tuesdays: Room T2.17, +61 (0)2 6620 3577 or Mobile 0438 23 33 44 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/ Virtual member, Cybermetrics Group, University of Wolverhampton, UK http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/index.html ____________________________________________________________________________________ Low, Low, Low Rates! Check out Yahoo! Messenger's cheap PC-to-Phone call rates (http://voice.yahoo.com)
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