| Section I. The Internet as a research medium.
Chapter 1: The Internet as a research medium: an editorial introduction
to the Sage Handbook of Online Research Methods
Ray Lee, Nigel Fielding and Grant Blank
Section II. Designing Internet research
Chapter 2: The Ethics of Internet research
Rebecca Eynon, Jenny Fry and Ralph Schroeder
Chapter 3: Understanding and Managing Legal Issues in Internet Research
Chapter 4: Research design and tools for Internet research
Claire Hewson and Dianna Laurent
Chapter 5: General approaches to data quality and Internet generated data
Section III. Data capture using the Internet
Chapter 6: Middleware for Distributed Data Management
Chapter 7: Distilling Digital Traces: Computational social science approaches to studying the Internet
Ted Welser, Marc Smith, Danyel Fisher and Eric Gleave
Chapter 8: Analysing Social Networks via the Internet
Chapter 9: Nonreactive Data Collection on the Internet
Section IV. The Internet survey
Chapter 10: Overview: online surveys
Vasja Vehovar and Katja Lozar Manfreda
Chapter 11: Sampling methods for Web and E-mail Surveys
Chapter 12: Internet survey design
Samuel Best and Brian Krueger
Chapter 13: Internet survey software tools
Section V. Virtual ethnography
Chapter 14: Overview: Virtual ethnography: modes, varieties, affordances
Chapter 15: Internet-based Interviewing
Henrietta O'Connor, Clare Madge, Robert Shaw, Jane Wellens
Chapter 16: Online focus groups
Chapter 17: Fieldnotes in public: using blogs for research
Nina Wakeford and Kris Cohen
Chapter 18: Research Uses of Multi-user Virtual Environments
Ralph Schroeder and Jeremy Bailenson
Chapter 19: Distributed Video Analysis in Social Research
Section VI. The Internet as an archival resource
Chapter 20: The Provision of Access to Quantitative Data for Secondary Analysis
Keith Cole, Louise Corti and Jo Wathan
Chapter 21: Secondary Qualitative Analysis using Internet Resources
Chapter 22: Finding and Investigating Geographical Data Online
David Martin, Samantha Cockings and Samuel Leung
Chapter 23: Data Mining, Statistical Data Analysis, or Advanced Analytics: Methodology, Implementation, and Applied Techniques
Bert Little and Michael Schucking
Chapter 24: Artificial Intelligence and the Internet
Section VII. The future of social research on the Internet
Chapter 25: Longitudinal Statistical Modelling on the Grid
Rob Crouchley and Rob Allan
Chapter 26: Qualitative e-Social Science/cyber-research
Nigel Fielding and Ray Lee
Chapter 27: New Cartographies of 'Knowing Capitalism' and the Changing Jurisdictions of Empirical Sociology
Michael Hardey and Roger Burrows
Chapter 28: The Internet and the Future of Social Science Research
Mike Fischer, Stephen Lyon and David Zeitlyn (Kent).
Chapter 29: Online Research Methods and Social Theory
Section VIII.
Glossary of Key Terms
Author profiles
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