Doing Internet research critical issues and methods for examining the Net (Sage Publications, 1999)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
'Doing Internet Research' examines the ways in which the Internet has commanded the public imagination and discusses the methodological issues that arise when one tries to study and understand the social processes occurring within the Internet
Introduction: forests, trees, and Internet research / James T. Costigan -- Studying the Net: intricacies and issues / Steve Jones -- Complementary explorative data analysis: the reconciliation of quantitative and qualitative principles / Fay Sudweeks and Simeon J. Simoff -- Recontextualizing "cyberspace": methodological considerations for on-line research / Lori Kendall -- Studying on-line social networks / Laura Garton, Caroline Haythornthwaite, and Barry Wellman -- Cybertalk and the method of instances / Norman K. Denzin -- Configuring as a mode of rhetorical analysis / James J. Sosnoski -- From paper-and-pencil to screen-and-keyboard: toward a methodology for survey research on the Internet / Diane F. Witmer, Robert W. Colman, and Sandra Lee Katzman -- Measuring internet audiences: patrons of an on-line art museum / Margaret McLaughlin, Steven B. Goldberg, Nicole Ellison, and Jason Lucas -- Analyzing the Web: directions and challenges / Ananda Mitra and Elisia Cohen -- There is a there there: notes toward a definition of cybercommunity / Jan Fernback -- Researching and creating community networks / Teresa M. Harrison and Timothy Stephen -- Beyond netiquette: the ethics of doing naturalistic discourse research on the Internet / Barbara F. Sharf -- Thinking the Internet: Cultural studies versus the millennium / Jonathan Sterne