Understanding Research In The Digital Age

Author : Sarah Quinton,Nina Reynolds
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781526448316

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Understanding Research in the Digital Age by Sarah Quinton,Nina Reynolds Pdf

A guide to understanding digital research from both a conceptual and practical perspective, helping the reader to make sense of the issues, challenges and opportunities of social science research in the digital age. The book will help the reader to understand how the digital context impacts on social science research and is divided into three main sections: A Justification & Reconceptualization of Digital Research: The authors explore how far the digital environment is transforming social science research. Accessing Digital Data: An outline of the characteristics of digital data, temporality issues in digital research and different data sources. Moving Forward with Digital Research: Examining the practicalities of how to conduct digital research, with examples and suggestions to strengthen the implementation of digital research. Suitable for Masters and Doctoral students undertaking digital or online research methods courses, as well as anyone doing a research project or dissertation with an online component.

Author : Eszter Hargittai
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231548007

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Research Exposed by Eszter Hargittai Pdf

The era of digital communication provides endless opportunities for the collection and analysis of social data in novel ways. It also presents new and unanticipated challenges, as researchers are often inventing elements of their methodologies on the fly or studying a phenomenon or media platform for the first time. Research Exposed offers in-depth, behind-the-scenes accounts of doing empirical social science in this new paradigm. Through firsthand descriptions of innovative research projects, it shares lessons learned from over a dozen scholars’ cutting-edge work. These candid accounts describe what can go wrong when pioneering new genres of research and how such difficulties can be overcome, giving both big-picture reflection and actionable advice. The chapters discuss a variety of methods, ranging from the completely novel to the use of more traditional approaches in the digital context, and cover research questions relevant to a range of disciplines, including sociology, political science, communication, information studies, and anthropology. By focusing attention on the concrete details seldom discussed in final project write-ups or traditional research guides, Research Exposed helps equip junior and senior scholars alike with essential information that is all too often left with no outlet for sharing. It offers important insights into how empirical social science research can be both innovative and rigorous when dealing with the opportunities and challenges presented by digital media.

Author : Institute of Medicine,National Academy of Engineering,National Academy of Sciences,Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy,Committee on Ensuring the Utility and Integrity of Research Data in a Digital Age
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780309136846

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Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age by Institute of Medicine,National Academy of Engineering,National Academy of Sciences,Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy,Committee on Ensuring the Utility and Integrity of Research Data in a Digital Age Pdf

As digital technologies are expanding the power and reach of research, they are also raising complex issues. These include complications in ensuring the validity of research data; standards that do not keep pace with the high rate of innovation; restrictions on data sharing that reduce the ability of researchers to verify results and build on previous research; and huge increases in the amount of data being generated, creating severe challenges in preserving that data for long-term use. Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age examines the consequences of the changes affecting research data with respect to three issues - integrity, accessibility, and stewardship-and finds a need for a new approach to the design and the management of research projects. The report recommends that all researchers receive appropriate training in the management of research data, and calls on researchers to make all research data, methods, and other information underlying results publicly accessible in a timely manner. The book also sees the stewardship of research data as a critical long-term task for the research enterprise and its stakeholders. Individual researchers, research institutions, research sponsors, professional societies, and journals involved in scientific, engineering, and medical research will find this book an essential guide to the principles affecting research data in the digital age.

Author : A. W Bates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0995269238

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Teaching in a Digital Age by A. W Bates Pdf

Author : Niess, Margaret L.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781466684041

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Handbook of Research on Teacher Education in the Digital Age by Niess, Margaret L. Pdf

Traditional classrooms are fast becoming a minority in the education field. As technologies continue to develop as a pervasive aspect of modern society, educators must be trained to meet the demands and opportunities afforded by this technology-rich landscape. The Handbook of Research on Teacher Education in the Digital Age focuses on the needs of teachers as they redesign their curricula and lessons to incorporate new technological tools. Including theoretical frameworks, empirical research, and best practices, this book serves as a guide for researchers, educators, and faculty and professional developers of distance learning tools.

Author : Trena M. Paulus,Jessica N. Lester
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781544321578

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Doing Qualitative Research in a Digital World by Trena M. Paulus,Jessica N. Lester Pdf

While some qualitative methods texts touch upon online communities as a potential data source, show how to conduct interviews and focus groups online, or select recording devices and analysis software, no book to date has guided readers in the creation of a comprehensive digital workflow for their research. By working through each chapter in this book, readers will be able to generate a unique digital workflow for designing and implementing their research. The book provides a deep exploration of the relationship between theories of technology, substantive theories, and methodological theory, and shows how together these inform the development of a quality research design. The authors include vignettes—narratives written by qualitative researchers describing cutting-edge use of digital tools and spaces—and also give examples of published studies, which together provide practical illustration of the content. Woven throughout is explicit attention to ethical challenges that are likely to be faced by researchers when adopting digital tools. The book invites readers to engage in a critical appraisal of the role of technology in qualitative research through reflection, conversation, and engagement with the larger community of researchers.

Author : Topor, F. Sigmund
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781522505235

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Handbook of Research on Individualism and Identity in the Globalized Digital Age by Topor, F. Sigmund Pdf

Globalization has shifted perspectives on individualism and identity as cultural exchange occurs more rapidly in an age of heightened connectivity. As technology connects those around the world, it too helps to provoke a shift in the autonomy of individuals. The Handbook of Research on Individualism and Identity in the Globalized Digital Age is an essential resource for researchers, professionals, and graduate-level students. This book explores and explains how globalization has impacted humans with specific emphasis on education and human development. This research-based publication presents critical perspectives on universal changes that are occurring due to globalization.

Author : Luci Pangrazio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351395151

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Young People's Literacies in the Digital Age by Luci Pangrazio Pdf

What do young people really do with digital media? Young People's Literacies in the Digital Age aims to debunk the common myths and assumptions that are associated with young people's relationship with digital media. In contrast to widespread notions of the empowered and enabled 'digital native', the book presents a more complex picture of young people's digital lives. Focusing on the notion of 'critical digital literacies' this book tackles a number of pressing questions that are often ignored in media hype and political panics over young people’s digital media use, including: In what ways can digital media enhance, shape or constrain identity representation and communication? How do digital experiences map onto young people’s everyday lives? What are young people’s critical understandings of digital media and how did they develop these? What are the dominant understandings young people have of digital media and in whose interests do they work? These questions are addressed through the findings of a year of fieldwork with groups of young people aged 14 to 19 years. Over the course of eight chapters, the experiences and views of these young people are explored with reference to various academic literatures, such as digital literacies, media and communication studies, critical theory and youth studies. Starting with their early socialisation into the digital context, the book traces the continuities, contradictions and conflicts they encounter as part of their practices. Written in a detailed but accessible manner, this book develops a unique perspective on young people’s digital lives.

Author : Maggi Savin-Baden,Gemma Tombs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781474245661

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Research Methods for Education in the Digital Age by Maggi Savin-Baden,Gemma Tombs Pdf

What is research in education? And what is it for in a digital age? Reflecting upon these questions, this engaging introduction provides critical discussion about the dilemmas of researching education in the digital age and ways forward for research in this complex area. Research Methods for Education in the Digital Age begins by outlining forms of education that are seen as digital, such as virtual, blended, immersive learning and examining the extent to which these are different or just adapted versions of earlier methods and approaches to education. Maggi Savin-Baden and Gemma Tombs explore current practices in research, identifying the successful adoption and adaption of theories and present practical guidance on new and emerging methodologies, methods, and analytical practices for undertaking educational research. New methodologies discussed include digital arts-based inquiry and digital visual methodologies, as well as adaptations of widely used methodologies such as ethnography, for the specific needs of researching digital teaching and learning. The book outlines the major challenges faced by today's digital researchers, exploring approaches to digital ethics, the relationship between qualitative and quantitative data in the digital age, digital data representations and portrayal and suggests helpful ways of dealing with the complexities and ethical challenges of undertaking research in and for digital spaces. Using case studies, research tips, a glossary and annotated further reading, the authors take a step by step approach from conceptualizing the research ideas, selecting the appropriate method to the dissemination of the findings. At a time when education is changing rapidly with digital and technological advances, Research Methods for Education in the Digital Age is essential reading for researchers wanting to undertake sound and rigorous research in the digital domain.

Author : Farina Madita Dobrick,Jana Fischer,Lutz M. Hagen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783658129095

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Research Ethics in the Digital Age by Farina Madita Dobrick,Jana Fischer,Lutz M. Hagen Pdf

The book discusses the multiple issues of a digital research ethic in its interdisciplinary diversity. Digitization and mediatization alter social behavior and cultural traditions, thereby generating new objects of study and new research questions for the social sciences and humanities. Furthermore, mediatization and digitization increase the data volume and accessibility of (quantitative) research and proliferate methodological opportunities for scientific analyses. Hence, they profoundly affect research practices in multiple ways. While consequences concerning the subjects, objects, and addressees of research in the social sciences and humanities have rarely been reflected upon, this reflection lies at the center of the book.

Author : Yildiz, Melda N.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781466696686

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Handbook of Research on Media Literacy in the Digital Age by Yildiz, Melda N. Pdf

With the current ubiquity of technological tools and digital media, having the skillset necessary to use and understand digital media is essential. Integrating media literacy into modern day education can cultivate a stronger relationship between technology, educators, as well as students. The Handbook of Research on Media Literacy in the Digital Age presents key research in the field of digital media literacy with a specific emphasis on the need for pre-service and in-service educators to become familiar and comfortable with the current digital tools and applications that are an essential part of youth culture. Presenting pedagogical strategies as well as practical research and applications of digital media in various aspects of culture, society, and education, this publication is an ideal reference source for researchers, educators, graduate-level students, and media specialists.

Author : Vivienne Waller,Karen Farquharson,Deborah Dempsey
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473944343

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Qualitative Social Research by Vivienne Waller,Karen Farquharson,Deborah Dempsey Pdf

Qualitative Social Research employs an accessible approach to present the multiple ways in which criticism enhances research practice. Packed full of relevant, ′real world′ examples, it showcases the strengths and pitfalls of each research method, integrating the philosophical groundings of qualitative research with thoughtful overviews of a range of commonly used methods. This book is ideal for students and prospective researchers and explains what makes qualitative sociological research practical, useful and ethical. It’s an essential guide to how to undertake research, use an appropriate research design and work with a range of qualitative data collection methods, and includes: detailed discussions of ethical issues references to new technologies in each chapter explanations of how to integrate online and visual methods with traditional data collection methods exercises to enhance learning The authors use their many years’ experience in using a range of qualitative methods to conduct and teach research to demonstrate the value of critical thinking skills at all stages of the research process.

Author : Taskiran, Nurdan Oncel
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781799815365

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Handbook of Research on Multidisciplinary Approaches to Literacy in the Digital Age by Taskiran, Nurdan Oncel Pdf

The fast pace of technology in this day and age has made it difficult for individuals to stay informed without becoming lost in the folds of an information overload. Methods used to narrow down information are becoming just as important as providing the information to be discovered. The Handbook of Research on Multidisciplinary Approaches to Literacy in the Digital Age is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on the significance of being literate in the age of speed and technology. While highlighting topics such as e-advertising, mobile computing, and visual culture, this publication explores the major issues society has in the information age and the methods of innovative achievements of public or private institutions. This book is ideally designed for researchers, academicians, teachers, and business managers seeking current research on a variety of social sciences in terms of the digital age.

Author : Toni Weller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780415666961

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History in the Digital Age by Toni Weller Pdf

This puplication looks at how the digital age is affecting the field of history for both scholars and students. The book does not seek either to applaud or condemn digital technologies, but takes a more conceptual view of how the field of history is being changed by the digital age.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264706491

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Educational Research and Innovation Education in the Digital Age Healthy and Happy Children by OECD Pdf

The COVID-19 pandemic was a forceful reminder that education plays an important role in delivering not just academic learning, but also in supporting physical and emotional well-being. Balancing traditional “book learning” with broader social and personal development means new roles for schools and education more generally.