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Overview"""Although written simply enough to be accessible to undergraduates, accomplished scholars are likely to appreciate it too. Reading it taught me quite a lot about a subject I thought I knew rather well."" - Paul Vogt, Illinois State University ""This book brings the art and science of building and applying innovative online research tools to students and faculty across the social sciences."" - William H. Dutton, University of Oxford A comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of web Social Science. This book demonstrates how the web is being used to collect social research data, such as online surveys and interviews, as well as digital trace data from social media environments, such as Facebook and Twitter. It also illuminates how the advent of the web has led to traditional social science concepts and approaches being combined with those from other scientific disciplines, leading to new insights into social, political and economic behaviour. Situating social sciences in the digital age, this book aids: understanding of the fundamental changes to society, politics and the economy that have resulted from the advent of the web choice of appropriate data, tools and research methods for conducting research using web data learning how web data are providing new insights into long-standing social science research questions appreciation of how social science can facilitate an understanding of life in the digital age It is ideal for students and researchers across the social sciences, as well as those from information science, computer science and engineering who want to learn about how social scientists are thinking about and researching the web." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert AcklandPublisher: Sage Publications Ltd Imprint: Sage Publications Ltd Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.470kg ISBN: 9781849204811ISBN 10: 1849204810 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 18 June 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAckland's Web Social Science is unique in being specifically designed for social science researchers. Although written simply enough to be accessible to undergraduates, accomplished scholars are likely to appreciate it too. Reading it taught me quite a lot about a subject I thought I knew rather well. Paul Vogt Emeritus Professor of Research Methods and Evaluation at Illinois State University <hr color= GBP666666 size= 1px /> This is a rare and timely entry to the growing body of quantitative Internet research. While most other works on the topic are written by and for scientists, the current book represents social science approach that is more accessible and applicable, with more attention to preparation, processing and interpretation of real-world data. Though primarily for readers in social science, business studies, policy analysts, and alike, the book blends traditional social science and emerging web science into a unique handbook of Internet research. Jonathan J. H. Zhu Professor of Media and Communication and Founding Director of Web Mining Lab, City University of Hong Kong <hr color= GBP666666 size= 1px /> This book brings the art and science of building and applying innovative online research tools to students and faculty across the social sciences. Professor William H. Dutton Oxford Internet Institute and Balliol College University of Oxford, UK Ackland's Web Social Science is unique in being specifically designed for social science researchers. Although written simply enough to be accessible to undergraduates, accomplished scholars are likely to appreciate it too. Reading it taught me quite a lot about a subject I thought I knew rather well. Paul Vogt Emeritus Professor of Research Methods and Evaluation at Illinois State University Author InformationAssoc. Prof. Robert Ackland has a joint appointment in the School of Sociology and the Australian Centre for Applied Social Research Methods (AusCen) at the Australian National University (ANU). He was awarded his PhD in economics from the ANU in 2001, and he has been researching online social and organisational networks since 2002. He leads the Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks Lab (http://voson.anu.edu.au) which was established in 2005 and is advancing the social science of the Internet by conducting research, developing research tools, and providing research training. Robert established the Social Science of the Internet specialisation in the ANU′s Master of Social Research in 2008, and his book Web Social Science: Concepts, Data and Tools for Social Scientists in the Digital Age (SAGE) was published in July 2013. He created the VOSON software for hyperlink network construction and analysis, which has been publicly available since 2006 and is used by researchers worldwide. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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