Researching Society Online

Matthew David is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Science at Durham University, and has undertaken research in the areas of new social movements, online data-services in higher education, online training in rural areas and forms of free online music sharing. He is author of Science in Society (Palgrave 2005) and Peer to Peer and the Music Industry (SAGE 2010), and co-author of Social Research (SAGE, latest edition 2011). Peter Millward is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Liverpool John Moores University. Peter has published widely in areas relating to both sociological dimensions of the Internet and contemporary football fandom. His second monograph, The Global Football League: Transnational Network, Social Movements and Sport in the New Media Age was published by Palgrave in 2011.

VOLUME ONE: The Social Context of Online Research Part One: Classics Cyburgs. Review of 'the Virtual Community. Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier' by Howard Rheingold - William Sims Bainbridge Review of 'Virtual Reality' by Howard Rheingold - J. Timmons Roberts Community without Propinquity Revisited: Communications Technology and the Transformation of the Urban Public Sphere - Craig Calhoun Towards a Sociology of the Network Society - Manuel Castells Materials for the Exploration of the Network Society - Manuel Castells An Introduction to the Information Age - Manuel Castells Network Rules of Order: Regulating Speech in Public Electronic Fora - William Dutton Proper Methodologies for Psychological and Sociological Studies Conducted via the Internet - Claire Hewson, Dianna Laurent and Carl Vogel Catching Cybercriminals: Policing the Internet - David Wall Consumption and Digital Commodities in the Everyday - Mark Poster Part Two: Digital Divides and Exclusions Social Implications of the Internet - Paul DiMaggio et al. Exploring the Digital Divide Internet Connectedness and Age - William Loges and Joo-Young Jung Beyond Access: The Digital Divide and Internet Uses and Gratifications - Jaeho Cho et al. The Digital Divide as a Complex and Dynamic Phenomenon - Jan Van Dijk and Ken Hacker New Social Survey Perspectives on the Digital Divide - John Robinson, Paul DiMaggio and Eszter Hargittai Reconsidering Political and Popular Understandings of the Digital Divide - Neil Selwyn Digital Divide Research, Achievements and Shortcomings - Jan Van Dijk Explaining the Global Digital Divide: Economic, Political and Sociological Drivers of Cross-National Internet Use - Mauro Guillen and Sandra Suarez Social Movements and New Media - Brian Loader Coming of (Old) Age in the Digital Age: ICT Usage and Non-Usage among Older Adults - Barbara Barbosa Neves, Fausto Amaro and Jaime Fonseca VOLUME TWO: Critical and 'Live' Issues in Researching Society Online Part One: Gender and the Internet Net Gains, Net Losses - Cheris Kramarae and Jana Kramer Gendered Conversational Rituals on the Internet: An Effective Voice Is Based on More than Simply What One Is Saying - Pamela Cushing Women's Studies Online Cyberfeminism or Cyberhype? - Ivy Schweitzer Gender and the Internet - Hiroshi Ono and Madeline Zavodny Reflections on Gender and Technology Studies: In What State Is the Art? - Judy Wajcman Cultural Production, Transnational Networking, and Critical Reflection in Feminist Zines - Elke Zobl "Click Here" A Content Analysis of Internet Rape Sites - Jennifer Lynn Gossett and Sarah Byrne Progressive Yet Traditional - Stephen Koerning and Neil Granitz Feminist Sexualities, Race and the Internet: An Investigation of Suicidegirls.Com - Shoshana Magnet Gender, Space, and Discourse across Borders: Talking Gender in Cyberspace - Janemaree Maher and Chng Huang Hoon Part Two: Research Ethics and Researching Sensitive Topics Using the Internet for Survey Research - Ross Coomber Ethical Issues in Conducting Sex Research on the Internet - Yitzchak Binik, Kenneth Mah and Sara Kiesler Ethical Issues for Qualitative Research in On-Line Communities - Charlotte Brownlow and Lindsay O'Dell What Is Special about the Ethical Issues in Online Research? - Dag Elgesem Internet Research: An Opportunity to Revisit Classic Ethical Problems in Behavioral Research - David Pittenger "Go Away": Participant Objections to Being Studied and the Ethics of Chatroom Research - James Hudson and Amy Bruckman Internet Users' Perceptions of 'Privacy Concerns' and 'Privacy Actions' - Carina Paine et al. Development of Measures of Online Privacy Concern and Protection for Use on the Internet - Tom Buchanan et al. Ethical Pluralism and Global Information Ethics - Charles Ess Children's Use of the Internet: Reflections on the Emerging Research Agenda - Sonia Livingstone Gradations in Digital Inclusion: Children, Young People and the Digital Divide - Sonia Livingstone "But the Data Is Already Public": On the Ethics of Research in Facebook - Michael Zimmer An Ethics of Intimacy: Online Dating, Viral-Sociality and Living with HIV - Fadhila Mazanderani VOLUME THREE: Online Data Collection Methods Part One: Internet as a Medium (Interviews/Questionnaires etc.) The e-Interview - Roberta Bampton and Christopher Cowton E-mail Interviewing in Qualitative Research: A Methodological Discussion - Lokman Meho Qualitative Interviewing in Internet Studies: Playing with the Media, Playing with the Method - Michelle Kazmer and Bo Xie Why Are Adolescents Addicted to Online Gaming? An Interview Study in Taiwan - Chin-Sheng Wan and Wen-Bin Chiou Interviews and Internet Forums: A Comparison of Two Sources of Qualitative Data - Clive Seale et al. Web-based Questionnaires and the Mode Effect: An Evaluation Based on Completion Rates and Data Contents of Near-Identical Questionnaires Delivered in Different Modes - Martyn Denscombe Social Desirability, Anonymity, and Internet-based Questionnaires - Adam Joinson Web Surveys: A Review of Issues and Approaches - Mick Couper Should We Trust Web-based Studies? A Comparative Analysis of Six Preconceptions about Internet Questionnaires - Samuel Gosling et al. The Impact of Material Incentives on Response Quantity, Response Quality, Sample Composition, Survey Outcome, and Cost in Online Access Panels - Anja Goritz Fans, Homophobia and Masculinities in Association Football: Evidence of a More Inclusive Environment - Ellis Cashmore and Jamie Cleland Part Two: Internet Ethnography Trading Sexpics on IRC: Embodiment and Authenticity on the Internet - Don Slater Cyberspace and Identity - Sherry Turkle Internet Research and the Sociology of Cyber-Social-Scientific Knowledge - Christine Hine Inside the "Pro-ana" Community: A Covert Online Participant Observation - Sarah Brotsky and David Giles Avatar Watching: Participant Observation in Graphical Online Environments - Matthew Williams The Internet in Everyday Life: Computer Networking from the Standpoiont of the Domestic User - Maria Bakardjieva and Richard Smith Normativity and the Principle of Materiality: A View from Digital Anthropology - Heather Horst and Daniel Miller Polymedia: Towards a New Theory of Digital Media in Interpersonal Communication - Mirca Madianou and Daniel Miller Internet Ethnography: Online and Offline - Liav Sade-Beck Digital Ethnography an Examination of the Use of New Technologies for Social Research - Dhiraj Murthy Ethnographic Approaches to the Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication - Angela Cora Garcia et al. VOLUME FOUR: Innovation in Researching Society Online Part One: Internet as 'Unobtrusive Measures' The Rebirth of the Football Fanzine: Using E-zines as Data Source - Peter Millward What Are They Doing? Dilemmas in Analysing Bibliographic Searching: Cultural and Technical Networks in Academic Life - Matthew David and David Zeitlyn Learning Users' Interests by Unobtrusively Observing Their Normal Behavior - Jeremy Goecks and Jude Shavlik Psychological research online: report of Board of Scientific Affairs' Advisory Group on the Conduct of Research on the Internet - Robert Kraut et al. Privacy Dictionary: A New Resource for the Automated Content Analysis of Privacy - Asimina Vasalou et al. Part Two: Cutting edge case studies The Internet for Empowerment of Minority and Marginalized Users - Bharat Mehra, Cecelia Merkel and Ann Peterson Bishop Disciplining the Future: A Critical Organizational Analysis of Internet Studies - Annette Markham Global Networks and Their Effects on Culture - Alexander Galloway Making Friends with Jarvis Cocker: Music Culture in the Context of Web 2.0 - David Beer The Coming Crisis of Empirical Sociology - Mike Savage and Roger Burrows Some Further Reflections on the Coming Crisis of Empirical Sociology - Mike Savage and Roger Burrows Qualitative Methods III: Animating Archives, Artful Interventions and Online Environments - Clarie Dwyer and Gail Davies Entering the Blogosphere': Some Strategies for Using Blogs in Social Research - Nicholas Hookway Netnography: A Method Specifically Designed to Study Cultures and Communities Online - Gary Bowler Wisdom of the Crowd or Technicity of Content? Wikipedia as a Sociotechnical System - Sabine Niederer and Jose van Dijck