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Web Social Science: Concepts, Data and Tools for Social Scientists in the Digital Age
Contributor(s): Ackland, Robert (Author)
ISBN: 1849204810     ISBN-13: 9781849204811
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
OUR PRICE:   $171.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: July 2013
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology - General
- Computers | Social Aspects
- Social Science | Research
Dewey: 300.72
LCCN: 2012950465
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.00 lbs) 224 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Internet
 
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Publisher Description:
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.

Contributor Bio(s): Ackland, Robert: - Assoc. 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.