Internet Research Methods: A Practical Guide for the Social and Behavioural Sciences (New Technologies for Social Research series) - Hardcover

Hewson, Claire; Yule, Peter; Laurent, Dianna; Vogel, Carl

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 076195919X ISBN 13: 9780761959199

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

Offering a concise, comprehensive guide to conducting research on the Internet, this book provides a detailed explanation of all the main areas of Internet research. It distinguishes between primary research (using the Internet to recruit participants, to administer the research process and to collect results) and secondary research (using the Internet to access available material online).

The book is designed for social science researchers and presents a user-friendly, practical guide that will be invaluable to both students and researchers who wish to incorporate the Internet into their research practice.

About this title

About the Author

Claire Hewson is Lecturer in Psychology at The Open University. She has a long-standing interest in using the Internet to carry out primary research, and has collected data using a range of IMR methods including surveys, psychometrics and experiments, to investigate issues in: commonsense understanding, particularly folk psychology; online assessment methods in an educational context; the validity of IMR 

methods. She was commissioned to lead a working party to produce the recent British Psychological Society (BPS) guidelines on ethics in Internet-mediated research (2013), has delivered a number of talks and training sessions on this and related topics, and has published more broadly in the area of IMR

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 076195919X
• ISBN 13: 9780761959199
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 156