Innovations in Digital Research Methods

Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview - Peter Halfpenny and Rob Proctor Chapter 2: The Changing Social Data Landscape - Kingsley Purdam and Mark Elliot Chapter 3: Exploiting New Sources of Data - Kingsley Purdam and Mark Elliot Chapter 4: Survey Methods: Challenges and Opportunities - Joe Murphy Chapter 5: Advances in Data Management for Social Survey - Paul S. Lambert Chapter 6: Modelling and Simulation - Mark Birkin and Nick Malleson Chapter 7: Contemporary developments in statistical software for social scientists - Paul S. Lambert, William J. Browne and Danius T. Michaelides Chapter 8: Text Mining and Social Media: When Quantitative Meets Qualitative, and Software Meets People - Lawrence Ampofo, Simon Collister, Ben O'Loughlin and Andrew Chadwick Chapter 9: Digital Records and the Digital Replay System - Andy Crabtree, Paul Tennent, Pat Brundell and Dawn Knight Chapter 10: Social Network Analysis - Robert Ackland and Jonathan Zhu Chapter 11: Visualising Spatial Data and Social Media - Michael Batty, Steven Gray, Andrew Hudson-Smith, Richard Milton, Oliver O'Brien and Flora Roumpani Chapter 12: Ethical Praxis in e-Research - R.J. Anderson and Marina Jirotka Chapter 13: Sociology and the Digital Challenge - Mike Savage