About this ebook
Volume One: Core Issues, Debates and Controversies in Internet Research introduces themes and issues that run across all four volumes such as: epistemology, ontology and methodology in the online world; access, social divisions and the ′digital divide′; and the ethics of online research.
Volume Two: Taking Research Online - Internet Survey and Sampling addresses the range of resources, digital archives and Internet-based data sources that exist online from relatively straightforward and practical guides to such material through to more polemical pieces which consider problems relating to the use, access and analysis of online data and resources.
Volume Three: Taking Research Online - Qualitative Approaches considers the broad range of approaches to conducting researching via or ′in′ the Internet. The focus is on conventional methods that have been ′taken online′, and which in doing so, have become transformed in scope and character.
Volume Four: Research ′On′ and ′In′ the Internet - Investigating the Online World follows logically from that which precedes it in exploring how social research has been ′taken online′, not simply through the deployment of existing methods and techniques via the Internet, but in researchers′ increasing recognition and investigation of the online world as a sphere of human interaction - a socio-cultural arena to be explored ′from the desktop′ as it were.
About the author
Jason Hughes is Professor of Sociology in the School of Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leicester. Jason is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Science, a Member of the European Academy, Academia Europaea, a Member of the Board of the Norbert Elias Foundation, Amsterdam, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. His recent research has focused on problematised consumption (e.g. vaping, smoking, social media) particularly by young people, and he has published widely relating to these and other sociological topics. He is currently researching the lay pharmaceutical use of psychedelics (e.g. via microdosing).
