Qualitative Research and Hypermedia : Ethnography for the Digital Age.
Title:
Qualitative Research and Hypermedia : Ethnography for the Digital Age.
Author:
Dicks, Bella.
ISBN:
9781847877093
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (209 pages)
Series:
New Technologies for Social Research series
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Qualitative Research for the Digital World -- Chapter 1 - Hypertext, Hypermedia and Qualitative Methods -- Chapter 2 - Ethnographic Paradigms: Technologies and Representations -- Chapter 3 - Hypertext Roots/Routes -- Chapter 4 - Multi-semiotic Ethnography -- Chapter 5 - The Hypermedia Toolbox -- Chapter 6 - Hypermedia Fieldwork -- Chapter 7 - Hypermedia Data Analysis -- Chapter 8 - Hyper Representation -- Notes -- References -- Filmography -- List of hypertexts -- List of software programs referred to in text -- Index.
Abstract:
This text sets out to equip qualitative researchers with the tools necessary to conduct ethnography in the age of email and the internet. It will investigate how digital technologies potentially transform the ways in which we do research. This text also introduces the reader to new emerging methods that utilise new technologies and explains how to conduct data collection, analysis and representation using new technologies and `hypermedia'.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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