Qualitative Research and Hypermedia: Ethnography for the Digital Age (New Technologies for Social Research series)

Qualitative Research and Hypermedia: Ethnography for the Digital Age (New Technologies for Social Research series)

by Amanda Coffey (Author), Bella Dicks (Author), Amanda Coffey (Author), Bruce Mason (Author), Bella Dicks (Author), Paul Atkinson (Author)

Synopsis

Digital culture and digital technologies have rapidly become unavoidable and essential forms of social experience and communication in our emerging globalised society. If we want to attempt to analyse and understand our technology-saturated society, and all its new media, then we must also develop research methods and forms of analysis that can accommodate and exploit digital culture and digital technologies.

This important new methods text sets out to equip qualitative researchers with the tools necessary to conduct ethnography in the age of email and the internet. It will investigate how digital technologies potentially transform the ways in which we do research. This text also introduces the reader to new emerging methods that utilise new technologies and explains how to conduct data collection, analysis and representation using new technologies and `hypermedia'.

Essential reading for any student or researcher interested in qualitative research in an age of hypermedia, this text:

- explains how digital technology impacts on social research;

- investigates how digital technology has reshaped the field of social research;

- consider the implications of bringing multimedia into the forefront of qualitative research;

- suggests new ways of observing and documenting a `technologised' and design-rich society;

- enables the reader to use new technologies to handle and represent qualitative data;

- unpacks the theoretical implications of writing and researching for the electronic screen

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Edition: First
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Published: 14 Oct 2005

ISBN 10: 076196097X
ISBN 13: 9780761960973

Author Bio
Bella Dicks has published and researched in the areas of qualitative methodology, heritage and museums, regeneration and post-industrial identities, cultural display and digital methodologies. She has written a number of books, including: Heritage, Place and Community (University of Wales Press, 2000); Out of the Ashes (with David Waddington, Chas Critcher and David Parry: Routledge, 2001); Culture on Display (Open University Press, 2004); Children, Place and Identity (with Jonathan Scourfield, Mark Drakeford and Andrew Davies: Routledge, 2006) Qualitative Research and Ethnography (with Bruce Mason, Amanda Coffey and Paul Atkinson: Sage 2005) and edited the four-volume set Digital Qualitative Research Methods (Sage 2012). My research interests are underpinned by a sustained, critical methodological engagement with ethnographic and qualitative research. This includes work on contemporary developments in qualitative data analysis, writing and representation, as well as a focus on of the self and (auto)biography in qualitative inquiry. I have led and been involved in a number of funded projects focussing on qualitative research methods and methodological development. I am currently the Director of the Cardiff Node of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) Qualitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences: Innovation, Integration and Impact (QUALITI) (2005-8). Paul Atkinson is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University. His current interest is the work of artists and craft workers. His books include Thinking Ethnographically (SAGE, 2017), For Ethnography (SAGE, 2014), Everyday Arias (AltaMira, 2006), Interactionism (coauthored with William Housley; SAGE, 2003), Key Themes in Qualitative Research (coauthored with Amanda Coffey and Sara Delamount; AltaMira, 2003). He and Sara Delamont were the founding editors of the journal Qualitative Research (SAGE). He coedited the SAGE Handbook of Ethnography (2001). He is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.