60f Digital social research (Book, 2020) [WorldCat.org]
skip to content
Digital social research Preview this item
ClosePreview this item
Checking...

Digital social research

Author: Giuseppe A Veltri
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2020.
Edition/Format:   Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
To analyse social and behavioral phenomena in our digitalized world, it's necessary to understand the main research opportunities and challenges specific to online and digital social research. This book presents an overview of the many techniques that are part of the fundamental toolbox of the digital social scientist. Placing online methods within the wider tradition of social research methods, Giuseppe Veltri  Read more...
Rating:

(not yet rated) 0 with reviews - Be the first.

Subjects
More like this

Find a copy in the library

&AllPage.SpinnerRetrieving; Finding libraries that hold this item...

Details

Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Veltri, Giuseppe A., author.
Digital social research
Medford, MA : Polity Press, [2019]
(DLC) 2019015511
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Giuseppe A Veltri
ISBN: 9781509529308 1509529306 9781509529315 1509529314
OCLC Number: 1087805735
Description: xiv, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents: Social research using digital data and methods --
Unobtrusive vs obtrusive methods --
Online obtrusive data collection methods --
Quantitative data analysis reloaded --
Networks and data --
Text mining - - Final remarks --
References.
Responsibility: Giuseppe A. Veltri.

Abstract:

To analyse social and behavioral phenomena in our digitalized world, it's necessary to understand the main research opportunities and challenges specific to online and digital social research. This book presents an overview of the many techniques that are part of the fundamental toolbox of the digital social scientist. Placing online methods within the wider tradition of social research methods, Giuseppe Veltri discusses the methodological principles and related frameworks that underlie each technique of digital research. This useful guide covers methodological issues such as different digital data types, sampling for big data, construct validity, and representativeness. It looks at different forms of unobtrusive data collection methods (web scraping, social media mining) as well as obtrusive methods (qualitative methods, web surveys, and experiments). Special attention is given to three key analytical approaches, explored in more detail: computational approaches to statistical analysis, text mining, and network analysis. Digital Social Research Methods will be a welcome and essential resource for students and researchers across the social sciences and humanities carrying out digital research or interested in the future of social research. --

Reviews

Editorial reviews

Publisher Synopsis

'We need more books like this. With his far-reaching and accessible overview of the field, Giuseppe A. Veltri makes a very welcome contribution.'Axel Bruns, Queensland University of Technology, and Read more...

 
User-contributed reviews
Retrieving GoodReads reviews...
Retrieving DOGObooks reviews...

Tags

Be the first.
Confirm this request

You may have already requested this item. Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway.

Close Window

Please sign in to WorldCat 

Don't have an account? You can easily create a free account.