[Air-L] FW: Need expert advise - Internet and social behavior

[Tatyana Lockot]

Janna,

I am not a sociologist, as Kate is, but I am doing Internet research, and am
myself a novice (first year of PhD). I think some good starting points would
be:

The challenge of changing audiences : or, what is the audience researcher to
do in the age of the internet? Livingstone, Sonia (2004) ** *European
journal of communication*, 19 (1). pp. 75-86. ISSN 1460-3705
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/412/Doing Internet research: critical issues and
methods for examining the Net By Steve Jones http://goo.gl/QW1Uf (Google
Books)
Virtual methods: issues in social research on the Internet By Christine Hine
http://goo.gl/ykyUf (Google Books) Internet research methods: a practical
guide for the social and behavioural sciences By Claire Hewson
http://goo.gl/iARvM (Google Books)Kate is also welcome to contact me offlist
and visit our Journalism School resource center (yes, I am also in Ukraine)
to see if she can find any print books/periodicals she might find useful.

Cheers,


2011/8/31 Janna Anderson <andersj at elon.edu>

> Perhaps people on the AoIR list have some advice for Kate...
>
> ------ Forwarded Message
> From: Екатерина <kate_kot at ukr.net>
> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:07:36 +0300
> Subject: need expert advise
>
> > Dear colleagues,
>
> I'm studying at T. Shevchenko Kiev National University (Ukraine) - graduate
> (first year) at the department of methods and methodologies of sociological
> researches. Also I work at online research agency as a analytic.
>
> Aproximate topic of my thesis is "Methodological grounding of internet
> audience research", BUT in Ukraine there are no advanced scientists in this
> sphere and nobody can't advise me on what questions I should focus on, what
> is more or less important etc. I hope you'll be able to direct my research
> vector in the right direction.
>
> I want to show to Ukrainian scientific community that Internet audience is
> a
> source of sociologiacal information and we should study this audience,
> their
> socio-demografic characteristics, behavoir using different methods,
> techniques (I'm interesting in combination of site-centric and user-centric
> measurment). No one takes this subject seriously and I intend to prove the
> falsity of this position. Because, in my opinion, investigation of internet
> audience is very important not only for marketing goals, but for
> socioilogical especially.
> >
> > P.S.: I am afraid that my work will be reduced to a banal and somehow not
> quite significant for the science conclusions.
> >
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Kate Tkachuk
> > Ukarine, Kiev
> >
> > +3 8 (066) 149 49 49
> > SKYPE - tkachuk_kateryna
>
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Tetyana Lokot

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