Digital Qualitative Research Methods

Bella Dicks is a sociologist specialising in qualitative methodology and ethnography, with a focus on digital and multimodal methods. She edited the four-volume Digital Qualitative Research Methods for the SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods series (2012). Her other major research interests are in heritage, museum studies, cultural memory, class and cultural policy.

VOLUME ONE: MAPPING THE FIELD OF DIGITAL QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Section 1: Researching Online Communication Overviews of methodological developments and directions in online research Internet Research and the Sociology of Cyber-social Scientific Knowledge - C. Hine Papers Discussing the Medium-specific Differences between Online and Offline Communication Interpersonal Effects in Computer-mediated Interaction - J. B. Walther Interpersonal Life Online - N. Baym Papers Discussing the Socially-specific Differences between Online and Offline Interaction Getting the Seats of our Pants Dirty: Strategies for Ethnographic Research on Virtual Communities - L. Paccagnella Mobile Phone Communication: Extending Goffman to Mediated Interaction - R. Rettie Papers Discussing the Concept of Community and Social Solidarity/Support Beyond the Diluted Community Concept: A Symbolic Interactionist Perspective on Online Social Relations - J. Fernback Papers on how to Interpret Online Communication Identity as an Analytic Problem: Who's Who in `Pro-Ana' Websites? - M. Hammersley and P. Treseder Entering the Blogosphere: Some Strategies for using Blogs in Social Research - Hookway Papers Addressing the 'Mundane Embeddedness' of CMC in Daily Life The Social Affordances Of The Internet For Networked Individualism - Barry Wellman et al New Media, Networking and Phatic Culture - V. Miller Methods for Capturing Mundane Embeddedness Connective Ethnography for the Exploration of E-science - C. Hine Tracing the Everyday 'Sitings' of Adolescents on the Internet: A Strategic Adaptation of Ethnography Across Online and Offline Spaces - K. M. Leander and K. K. McKim Network Ethnography and the Hypermedia Organisation: New Organisations, New Media, New Methods - P. Howard Multi-user Graphical Virtual Environments e.g. Second Life Avatar-watching: Participant Observation in Graphical Online Environments - M. Williams The Experience of Embodied Space in Virtual Worlds: An Ethnography of a Second Life Community - S. Bardzell and W. Odom Section 2: Online Research Methods Electronic Interviewing, Participant Observation and Focus Groups Realtime Interviewing Using the World Wide Web - P. Chen and S. M. Hinton In the Flesh or Online? Exploring Qualitative Research Methodologies - W. S. Seymour Characteristics of the Discussion in Online and Face-to-Face Focus Groups - S. Schneider et al The Internet as Research Context - A. N. Markham How to Conceptualise the Internet as an Object of Research The Web as an Object of Study - S. M. Schenider and K.A. Foot VOLUME 2: MULTIMEDIA and HYPERMEDIA Section 1: Multimedia and Multimodality Papers Discussing the Importance of Multi-sensory and Multimedia in Contemporary Environments Visual and Sensory Cultures - Delamont, Atkinson and Housley There are no Visual Media - W. J. T. Mitchell Remediation and the Desire for Immediacy - J. D. Bolter Interactionist/Ethnomethodological Perspectives The Neglected Situation - E. Goffman Action and Embodiment within Situated Human Interaction - C. Goodwin Analysing Interaction: Video, Ethnography and Situated Conduct - S. Heath and Hindmarsh Papers on Sensory Ethnography An Urban Tour: The Sensory Sociality of Ethnographic Place-making - S. Pink Papers on multimodality Multimodal Discourse - G. Kress and T. Van Leeuwen Multimodal Ethnography - B. Dicks, B. Soyinka and A. Coffey Papers Examining Specific Modes and how to Work with them in Qualitative Research Sound and the Everyday - T. Hall, B. Lashua and A. Coffey Anthropological Visions: Some Notes on Visual and Textual Authority - K. Hastrup Framing Photographic Ethnography - D. Harper Escaping Reality: Digital Imagery and the Resources of Photography - B. E. Savedoff Using Video to Investigate Preschool Classroom Interaction: Educational Research Assumptions and Methodological Assumptions - R. Flewitt Creative Visual Methods in Media Research: Possibilities, Problems and Proposals - D. Buckingham Ethnography Bytes Back: Digitalizing Visual Anthropology - G. Murdock and S. Pink Papers on Hypertext and Hypermedia Beyond Ethnographic Film: Hypermedia and Scholarship - P. Biella Going Beyond the Code: The Production of Hypermedia Ethnography - B. Dicks and B. Mason Social Impacts of Computing: Revolutionary for Whom? - J. Yellow-Lees Douglas VOLUME THREE: DATA ANALYSIS Section 1: Data Analysis in Sound, Vision and Multimedia Papers on Multimodal Analysis Analysing Multimodal Interaction - S. Norris The Implication of Visual Research for Discourse Analysis: Transcription beyond Language - N. Norris Multimodality, Resemiotization: Extending the Analysis of Discourse as Multi-semiotic Practice - R. Iedema What are Multimodal Data and Transcription? - R. Flewitt et al Papers on Analysing Web-based Data Time to get Wired: Using Web-based Corpora in Critical Discourse Analysis - G. Mautner Travels in Hypermodality - J. Lemke Papers on Hypermedia and Analysis Hypermedia and Ethnography: Reflections on the Construction of a Research Approach - B. Dicks and B. Mason Papers on Analysis of Sound Data The Digital Revolution in Qualitative Research: Working with Digital Audio Data Through Atlas - W. Gibson et al Structuring Audio Data with a "C-TOC". An Example for Analysing Raw Data - Stefan Hauptmann Papers on Visual Analysis Visual Sociology Reframed: An Analytical Synthesis and Discussion of Visual Methods in Social and Cultural Research - L. Pauwels Going Digital: Using New Technologies in Visual Sociology - P. Parmeggiani Using Video for a Sequential and Multimodal Analysis of Social Interaction: Videotaping Institutional Telephone Calls - L. Mondada Papers on Qualitative GIS Theorizing with GIS: A Tool for Critical Geographies? - M. Pavlovskaya Section 1: CAQDAS: Approaches and Debates Papers Discussing the Intellectual and Methodological Traditions Underpinning CAQDAS Qualitative Data Analysis: Technologies and Representations - A. Coffey, B. Holbrook and P. Atkinson Qualitative Data Analysis: Representations of a Technology: A Comment on Coffey, Holbrook and Atkinson - R. M. Lee and N. Fielding Qualitative Computing - A Methods Revolution? - L. Richards The Wow Factor: Preconceptions and Expectations for Data Analysis Software in Qualitative Research - K. MacMillan and T. Koenig Papers Discussing Particular QDA Software Programs Software and Method: Reflections on Teaching and Using QSR NVivo in Doctoral Research - L. Johnston Narrative Research with Audiovisual Data: Video Intervention/Prevention Assessment (VIA) and NVivo - M. Rich and J. Patashnick Testing Hypotheses on Qualitative Data: The Use of Hyper Research Computer-Assisted Software - S. Hesse-Biber and P. Dupuis Making Thinking Visible with Atlas.ti: Computer Assisted Qualitative Analysis as Textual Practices - Z. Konopasek Section 1: Archiving Qualitative Data Papers Covering Debates on Secondary Analysis The Data are out there or are they? Implications for Archiving and Revisiting Qualitative Data - Parry Mathner and Backett-Milburn Whose Data are they Anyway: Practical, Legal and Ethical Issues in Archiving Qualitative Research Data - O. Parry and N. Mauthner (Re)using Qualitative Data? - N. Moore Can We Re-Use Qualitative Data Via Secondary Analysis? Notes on Some Terminological and Substantive Issues - M. Hammersley Ethnography and Data Reuse: Issues of Context and Hypertext - B. Dicks et al Papers on Ethics of Archiving in Internet Age From Data Archive to Ethical Labyrinth - Annamaria Carusi and Marina Jirotka Recycling the Evidence: Different Approaches to the Reanalysis of Gerontological Data - Joanna Bornat Section 2: Ethics in Digital Qualitative Research Ethical Research in the Information Age: Beginning the Dialog - L. Schrum Informed Consent in Chat-rooms "Go Away": Participant Objections to Being Studied and the Ethics of Chatroom Research - J. M. Hudson and A. Bruckman Ethical Dilemmas in Research on Internet Communities - Sarah Flicker, Dave Haans and Harvey Skinner Internet as Human Subjects or Cultural Representations? Representations or People? - M. White Ethics in Visual Digital Media The Ethnographer's Tale - Bill Nichols Taking and Using: Ethical Issues of Photographs for Research Purposes - Luc Pauwels IVSA Code of Research Ethics and Guidelines - Diana Papademas Section 3: Collaborating and Disseminating Digital Qualitative Research Papers Discussing use of the Grid for Collaboration and Sharing Grid Computing and Qualitative Social Research - N. Fielding Sociological Engagements with Computing: the Advent of E-Science and Some Implications for the Qualitative Research Community - S. M. Hodgspm and T. Clark Virtual Research Environments in Scholarly Work and Communications - A. Voss and R. Procter Papers on Disseminating Multimedia Qualitative Research Recording Culture: Audio Documentary and the Ethnographic Experience - D. Makagon and M. Neumann Spatial Montage and Multimedia Ethnography: Using Computers to Visualise Aspects of Migration and Social Division Among a Displaced Community - Judith Aston Colour as a Visual Signifier in Screen Typography: Less Means More - Jan Baetens