The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods

Second Edition

by Nigel G Fielding, Ramond M Lee and Grant Blank

Student Resources

Editor biographies

Online Research Methods in the Social Sciences: An Editorial Introduction
- Chapter PDF
- Contributor biography
The Ethics of Online Research
- Abstract
- Contributor biography
Data Quality in Online Environments
- Abstract
- Contributor biography
Research Design and Tools for Online Research
- Abstract
- Contributor biography
Nonreactive Data Collection Online
What’s New? The Applications of Data Mining and Big Data in the Social Sciences
- Abstract
- Contributor biography
Of Instruments and Data: Social Media Uses, Abuses and Analysis
‘Big Social Science’: Doing Big Data in the Social Sciences
- Abstract
- Contributor biography
Overview: Online Surveys
- Abstract
- Contributor biography
Sampling Methods for Online Surveys
- Abstract
- Contributor biography
Online Survey Design
Online Survey Software
- Abstract
- Contributor biography
Improving the Effectiveness of Online Data Collection by Mixing Survey Modes
- Abstract
- Contributor biography
Online Social Networks: Concepts for Data Collection and Analysis
Scale, Time, and Activity Patterns: Advanced Methods for the Analysis of Online Networks
Social Simulation and Online Research Methods
Games and Online Research Methods
- Abstract
- Contributor biography
Data Visualisation as an emerging tool for online research
Online Tools for Content Analysis
Sentiment Analysis for Small and Big Data
- Abstract
- Contributor biography
Artifical Intelligence/Expert Systems and Online Research
- Abstract
- Contributor biography
The Blogosphere
- Abstract
- Contributor biography
Ethnographies of Online Communities and Social Media: Modes, Varieties, Affordances
- Abstract
- Contributor biography
Online Interviewing
- Abstract
- Contributor biography
Online Focus Groups
- Abstract
- Contributor biography
Tools for Collaboration in Video-based Research
- Abstract
- Contributor biography
CAQDAS at a Crossroads: Affordances of Technology in an Online Environment
- Abstract
- Contributor biography
Online Access to Quantitative Data Resources
Secondary Qualitative Analysis Using Online Resources
- Abstract
- Contributor biography
Finding and Investigating Geographical Data Online
- Abstract
- Contributor biography
Mapping Spaces: Cartographic Representations of Online Data
- Abstract
- Contributor biography
Engaging Remote Marginalized Communities Using Appropriate Online Research Methods
- Abstract
- Contributor biography
Web and Phone based Data Collection using Planned Missing Designs
- Abstract
- Contributor biography
Social Cartography and ‘Knowing Capitalism’: Critical Reflections on Social Research and the Geo-Spacial Web
- Abstract
- Contributor biography
Online Environments and the Future of Social Science Researchc
- Abstract
- Contributor biography
Online Research Methods and Social Theory
- Contributor biography

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