This timely book inspires researchers to deploy relevant, effective, innovative digital methods. It explores the relationship of such methods to 'mainstream' social science; interdisciplinarity; innovations in digital research tools; the opportunities (and challenges) of digital methods in researching social life; and digital research ethics.
About the Author: Jonathon Adams, English Language Institute, Ministry of Education, Singapore Stuart Agnew, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Arts Business and Applied Social Science, University Campus Suffolk (UCS), UK Julie Barnett, Professor of Health Psychology, University of Bath, UK Ibrar Bhatt, Senior Research Associate, Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University, UK Emma Bond, Associate Professor, University Campus Suffolk, and Director of iSEED (The Institute for Social, Educational and Enterprise Development, UK Phillip Brooker, Research Associate, University of Bath, UK Axel Bruns, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, and Professor, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia Jean Burgess, Associate Professor of Digital Media, and Director of the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), Queensland University of Technology, Australia Timothy Cribbin, Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Brunel University London, UK Roberto de Roock, Center for Games and Impact, Arizona State University, USA Adolfo Estalella, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Manchester, UK Jorge Fábrega is Assistant Professor, Adolfo Ibañez University, Chile Claire Hewson, Lecturer in Psychology, The Open University, UK Christine Hine, Reader in Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK Jo Hope, University of Surrey, UK Emma Hutchinson, University of Warwick, UK Jeremy Knox, Lecturer in Digital Education, University of Edinburgh, UK Noortje Marres, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Yvette Morey, Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Behaviour Change and Influence, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Steven Roberts, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Monash University, USA Javier Sajuria, Research Associate, School of Government in Public Policy, University of Strathclyde, UK Sanjay Sharma, Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, Media and Communications, Brunel University London, UK Helene Snee, Lecturer in Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Eve Stirling, Senior Lecturer in Design, Sheffield Institute of Art, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Victoria Tedder, University of Kent, UK Hayley Watson, Senior Research Analyst, Trilateral Research & Consulting, London, UK