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