Welcome to the companion website

Welcome to the companion website for The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, Second Edition by Nigel G Fielding, Ramond M Lee, and Grant Blank. The resources on the site have been specifically designed to support your study.

On this website you will find:

  • Editor and Contributor Biographies
  • Abstracts
  • Colour Illustrations
  • Glossary

​Just click on links to the left.

About the book:

Online research methods are popular, dynamic and fast-changing. Following on from the great success of the first edition, published in 2008, The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, Second Edition offers both updates of existing subject areas and new chapters covering more recent developments, such as social media, big data, data visualization and CAQDAS.

Bringing together the leading names in both qualitative and quantitative online research, this new edition is organised into nine parts:

1. Online Research Methods
2. Designing Online Research
3. Online Data Capture and Data Collection
4. The Online Survey
5. Digital Quantitative Analysis 
6. Digital Text Analysis
7. Virtual Ethnography
8. Online Secondary Analysis: Resources and Methods
9. The Future of Online Social Research

The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, Second Edition is an essential resource for anyone interested in the contemporary practice of computer-mediated research and scholarship.

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