COM 528 DESIGNING INTERNET RESEARCH
Spring Quarter, 2007


 

 

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Content/Textual Analysis:

Romppel, Matthias, "Resources Related to Content Analysis and Text Analysis," http://www.content-analysis.de/

Experimental Research:

Birnbaum, Michael, Psychological Experiments on the Internet, overview of edited volume, http://psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/web/IntroWeb.htm

Birnbaum, Michael, "References on Experimental Research," http://psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/www/References.htm

Advanced Training Institute in Social Psychology Experiments via the WWW, http://psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/www/

Media Effects Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, http://www.psu.edu/dept/medialab/

Political Communication Lab, Stanford University, http://pcl.stanford.edu/

Reips, Ulf-D., "Experimental Psychology," http://www.psychologie.unizh.ch/genpsy/Ulf/Lab/WWWExpMethod.html

General/Mixed Approaches to Internet Research:

Howard, Phil, Methods section of dissertation bibliography, http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/publications/disslist.html

Jones, Steve, (Ed.) Doing Internet Research: Critical Issues and Methods for Examining the Net, Sage, 1999.

Qualitative Research:

Coffey, A., B. Holbrook and P. Atkinson (1996) 'Qualitative Data Analysis: Technologies and Representations', Sociological Research Online, vol. 1, no. 1, http://www.socresonline.org.uk/1/1/4.html

The Qualitative Report, "Qualitative Research Web Sites," http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/web.html

Virtual Society? Project, http://virtualsociety.sbs.ox.ac.uk/projects/morrison.htm

Although not available online, these books provide good discussions and case studies of qualitative research design:

Hakken, David, Cyborgs@Cyberspace? An Ethnographer Looks to the Future, Routledge, 1999.

Hine, Christine, Virtual Ethnography, Sage, 2000.

Marshall, Catherine & Gretchen Rossman, Designing Qualitative Research, 2nd edition, Sage, 1995.

Markham, Annette, Life Online: Researching Real Experience in Virtual Space, Altamira, 1998.

Research Ethics:

American Association for the Advancement of Science, "Ethical and Legal Aspects of Human Subjects Research in Cyberspace," http://www.aaas.org/spp/dspp/sfrl/projects/intres/main.htm

Association of Internet Research Ethics Working Group Recommendations Report, http://www.aoir.org/reports/ethics.pdf

Bruckman, Amy, "Ethical Guidelines for Research Online," http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~asb/ethics/

Elgesem, Dag, "Making Common Ground: Methodological and Ethical Challenges in Internet Research," Nordic Interdisciplinary Workshop, Trondheim, Norway, June 1-2 2002, http://huminf.uib.no/~dagelg/CommonGround/#

Jankowski, Nicholas, and Martine Van Selm, "Research Ethics in a Virtual World: Some Guidelines and Illustrations," http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/crict/vmpapers/nick.htm

Survey Research:

Schmidt, William C., "World-Wide Web Survey Research: Benefits, Potential Problems, and Solutions," http://or.psychology.dal.ca/~wcs/hidden/SAdocs/survey_research.html

Schmidt, William C., "WWW Survey Assistant," http://or.psychology.dal.ca/~wcs/hidden/SAdocs/research.html

Survey Methods Program, UC Berkeley, "Survey Documentation & Analysis," http://csa.berkeley.edu:7502/index.htm

Trochim, William M., "Research Methods Knowledge Base," http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/kb/

Some Scholarly Journals for Internet-related Research:

Information, Communication and Society
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/1369118x.html

IT & Society
http://wwwITandSociety.org

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/

New Media & Society (UW E-Journals)
http://www.new-media-and-society.com/index5.html

The Information Society (UW E-Journals)
http://www.indiana.edu/~tisj/