To analyse social and behavioural phenomena in our digitalized world, it is necessary to
understand the main research opportunities and challenges specific to online and digital …

This book explores exciting innovations in the field of digital social research. The growing
significance of 'the digital'for contemporary social life is undeniable; nevertheless digital …

Digital methods are techniques for the study of societal change and cultural condition with
online data. They make use of available digital objects such as the hyperlink, tag, timestamp …

Technological innovation in digital communications, epitomised in the shift from the
informational web (Web1. 0) to the interactional web (Web2. 0), provokes new opportunities …

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Books and journals Case studies Expert Briefings Open Access Publish with us Advanced …

The social sciences are becoming datafied. The questions once considered the domain of
sociologists are now answered by data scientists operating on large datasets and breaking …

This paper contributes to debates about the implications of digital technology for social
research by proposing the concept of the redistribution of methods. In the context of …

Online research methods have come of age as the permeation of everyday life by
information and communication technologies has grown ever more ubiquitous. Although …

The term 'big data'first emerged in the field of computer science (Cox and Ellsworth 1997),
employed to describe not just a large amount of information, but one that was so large that it …

This book offers a toolkit of methods and technologies to undertake qualitative research on
digital spaces. Unlike commonly used traditional methodological strategies, which are …