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This collection of dialogues is the only textbook of its kind. Internet Inquiry: Conversations About Method takes students into the minds of top internet researchers as they discuss how they have worked through critical challenges as they research online social environments. Editors Annette N. Markham and Nancy K. Baym illustrate that good research choices are not random but are deliberate, studied, and internally consistent. Rather than providing single "how to" answers, this book presents distinctive and divergent viewpoints on how to think about and conduct qualitative internet studies.

Key Features and Benefits  

  • Presents each chapter in the form of a question in order to provoke explicit consideration of key issues
  • Illustrates choices made within larger disciplinary contexts to help students blend approaches, think broadly, and conduct internet research with the benefit of multiplicity
  • Offers a range of perspectives in each chapter to vividly demonstrate that there are many ways to answer methodological challenges well
  • Includes contributors from multiple disciplines and across the globe
  • Provides a highly reflexive writing style that allows readers to see processes that are rarely visible in finished research reports
Intended Audience  
This edited volume is an excellent supplementary text for a variety of advanced undergraduate and graduate courses such as Internet Research, Research Methods, Qualitative Research Methods, and Computer-Mediated Communication in the departments of communication, media studies, sociology, and anthropology. It will assist new scholars as well as seasoned practitioners in this arena make informed choices in how they conduct inquiry.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Making Smart Choices on Shifting Ground - Nancy Baym, Annette Markham 1. How can qualitative internet researchers define the boundaries of their projects? - Christine Hine, Lori Kendall, danah boyd 2. How can researchers make sense of the issues involved in collecting and interpreting online and offline data? - Shani Orgad, Maria Bakardjieva, Radhika Gajjala 3. How do various notions of privacy influence decisions in qualitative internet research? - Malin Sveningsson Elm, Elizabeth A. Buchanan, Susannah R. Stern 4. How do issues of gender and sexuality influence the structures and processes of qualitative internet research? - Lori Kendall, Jenny Sunden, John Edward Campbell 5. How can qualitative researchers produce work that is meaningful across time, space, and culture? - Annette Markham, Elaine Lally, Ramesh Srinivasan 6. What constitutes quality in qualitative internet research? - Nancy Baym, Annette Markham

About the Author :
Annette N. Markham is a senior research fellow in the Center for Information Policy Research at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, researching the connection between method and ethics and conducting research of decision making processes in institutional review boards. She is also a senior development specialist for the State of Wisconsin, working with subject matter experts in the corrections system to design ethically-grounded online training. Her primary research focuses on ethical practices in qualitative internet research and sensemaking in technologically-mediated spaces. Her book Life online: Researching real experience in virtual space (1998, Alta Mira) has been regarded as a foundational sociological study of Internet experience. Other writing related to method can be found in Sage Handbook for Qualitative Research (Denzin & Lincoln, 2005, 3rd Edition); Qualitative Research: Theory, Method, and Practice (Silverman, 2004, Sage); and such journals as Qualitative Inquiry, The Information Society, and the Journal of Information Ethics. Annette received her Ph. D. from Purdue University. Nancy Baym is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas. She has written many widely-cited articles about online fan community and social aspects of online interaction and is the author of the book Tune In, Log On: Soaps, Fandom, and Online Community (Sage Press, Inc.). She is a co-founder and Past-President of the Association of Internet Researchers. She is an award-winning teacher whose courses address the use of new communication technologies in creating identities, relationships and communities, interpersonal communication, and qualitative research methods. She serves on the editorial boards of the premiere journals in the field, including New Media & Society, The Journal of Communication, The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, and The Information Society. Her blog about fan activity on the internet can be found at http://www.onlinefandom.com

Review :
One of the best overviews of the particularities of internet research I have seen, that is clear and accessible to students of all levels. A useful resource for people considering using the Internet in their research I have recieved the book and like the contents and structure. Unfortunately due to conflicts this course has been canceled for Spring 2011 but all being well I hope to teach it in Fall 2011.
Very interesting book but not really suited for a Masters course.

I would still recommend it as supplemental reading. This will be an invaluable resource for the appropriate methods section of the course. Clearly written and accessible for undergraduates. In my opinion, one of the best texts available for those undertaking internet research from undergraduate through to postgraduate study. Excellent


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781452245225
  • Publisher: Sage Publications Inc Ebooks
  • Publisher Imprint: SAGE Publications Inc
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Conversations About Method
  • ISBN-10: 1452245223
  • Publisher Date: 17 Jul 2008
  • Binding: Digital download and online
  • No of Pages: 264


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