SECTION ONE – ONLINE RESEARCH METHODS
Chapter 01: Online Research Methods in the Social Sciences: An Editorial Introduction – Raymond M. Lee, Nigel G. Fielding, and Grant Blank
SECTION TWO – DESIGNING ONLINE RESEARCH
Chapter 02: The Ethics of Online Research – Rebecca Eynon, Jenny Fry and Ralph Schroeder
Chapter 03: Data Quality in Online Environments – Karsten Boye Rasmussen
SECTION THREE – ONLINE DATA CAPTURE AND DATA COLLECTION
Chapter 04: Research Design and Tools for Online Research – Claire Hewson
Chapter 05: Nonreactive Data Collection Online – Dietmar Janetzko
Chapter 06: What’s New? The Applications of Data Mining and Big Data in the Social Sciences – Ayelet Baram-Tsabari, Elad Segev and Aviv J. Sharon
Chapter 07: Of Instruments and Data: Social Media Uses, Abuses and Analysis – Martin Innes, Colin Roberts, Alun Preece and David Rogers
Chapter 08: “Big Social Science”: Doing Big Data in the Social Sciences – Jonathan Bright
SECTION FOUR – THE ONLINE SURVEY
Chapter 09: Overview: Online Surveys – Vasja Vehovar and Katja Lozar Manfreda
Chapter 10: Sampling Methods for Online Surveys – Ronald D. Fricker, Jr
Chapter 11: Online Survey Design – Vera Toepoel
Chapter 12: Online Survey Software – Lars Kaczmirek
Chapter 13: Improving the Effectiveness of Online Data Collection by Mixing Survey Modes – Don A. Dillman, Feng Hao and Morgan M. Millar
SECTION FIVE – DIGITAL QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS
Chapter 14: Online Social Networks: Concepts for Data Collection and Analysis – Bernie Hogan
Chapter 15: Scale, Time, and Activity Patterns: Advanced Methods for the Analysis of Online Networks – Javier Borge-Holthoefer & Sandra González-Bailón
Chapter 16: Social Simulation and Online Research Methods – Corinna Elsenbroich
Chapter 17: Games and Online Research Methods – Harko Verhagen, Magnus Johansson, Wander Jager
Chapter 18: Data visualisation as an emerging tool for online research – Helen Kennedy and William Allen
SECTION SIX – DIGITAL TEXT ANALYSIS
Chapter 19: Online Tools for Content Analysis – Roel Popping
Chapter 20: Sentiment Analysis for Small and Big Data – Mike Thelwall
Chapter 21: Artificial Intelligence/Expert Systems and Online Research – Edward Brent
Chapter 22: The Blogosphere – Nicholas Hookway and Helene Snee
SECTION SEVEN – VIRTUAL ETHNOGRAPHY
Chapter 23: Ethnographies of Online Communities and Social Media: Modes, Varieties, Affordances – Christine Hine
Chapter 24: Online Interviewing – Henrietta O’Connor and Clare Madge
Chapter 25: Online Focus Groups – Katie M. Abrams and Ted J. Gaiser
Chapter 26: Tools for Collaboration in Video-based Research – Jon Hindmarsh
Chapter 27: CAQDAS at a Crossroads: Affordances of Technology in an Online Environment – Christina Silver & Sarah L Bulloch
SECTION EIGHT – ONLINE SECONDARY ANALYSIS: RESOURCES AND METHODS
Chapter 28: Online access to Quantitative Data Resources – Louise Corti and Jo Wathan
Chapter 29: Secondary Qualitative Analysis Using Online Resources – Patrick Carmichael
Chapter 30: Finding and Investigating Geographical Data Online – David Martin, Samantha Cockings and Samuel Leung
Chapter 31: Mapping Spaces: Cartographic Representations of Online Data – Matthew Zook, Ate Poorthuis and Rich Donohue
SECTION NINE – THE FUTURE OF ONLINE SOCIAL RESEARCH
Chapter 32: Engaging Remote Marginalized Communities Using Appropriate Online Research Methods – Brian Beaton, David Perley, Chris George, Susan O’Donnell
Chapter 33: Web- and Phone-Based Data Collection Using Planned Missing Designs – William Revelle, David M. Condon, Joshua Wilt, Jason A. French, Ashley Brown and Lorien G. Elleman
Chapter 34: Social Cartography and ‘Knowing Capitalism’: Critical Reflections on Social Research and the Geo-Spatial Web – Harrison Smith, Michael Hardey, Mariann Hardey and Roger Burrows
Chapter 35: Online Environments and the Future of Social Science Research – Michael Fischer, Stephen Lyon and David Zeitlyn
Chapter 36: Online Research Methods and Social Theory – Grant Blank