[Air-L] Need New Methods Text

[Rob Baron]

When it came time for me to do my prelims, my advisor and I chose Steve 
Jones's /Doing Internet Research /as one of my main Internet Studies 
methods texts.

Even though it's a bit dated today we felt that it offered a nice 
balance of context and case studies from which one could pull 
methodological approaches.

-Rob

-- 
Rob Baron
PhD Candidate&  Graduate Instructor
Rhetoric, Scientific and Technical Communication
Department of Writing Studies
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities



On 7/21/2011 6:58 AM, Andrew Herman wrote:
> I would actually like to see what people suggest here as I imagine others would as well, so please keep this on list!
>
> AH
>
> Andrew Herman, Ph. D.
> Associate Professor and Chairperson
> Department of Communication Studies
> Graduate Program in Cultural Analysis and Social Theory
> Wilfrid Laurier University
> Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5
> CANADA
> 519 884-1970 x3693
>
>>>> Ted Coopman<ted.coopman at gmail.com>  07/20/11 6:44 PM>>>
> All,
>
> I am looking for a new (one) comprehensive text for an Internet
> Research Methods course, current title: Inquiry in Internet
> Communication. Here is the catalog description.
>
> "Examines the internet as both a site of and a tool of communication
> research. Special attention to legal and ethical concerns associated
> with internet communication research."
>
> This is an upper division 4 unit research methods course. I am
> currently using Hine's "Virtual Methods: Issues in Social Research on
> the Internet" which is fine but the research is a bit dated (ah, the
> hell of "everything is dated once it hits the page" for teaching
> internet/new media anything) and while I use workshops on specific
> research methods (interviewing, surveys, etc.) I am looking for
> something more textbook-like with a structured approach. It needs to
> include both qualitative and quantitative approaches.
>
> I get them out collecting and coding data for two projects per semester.
>
> Online resources, a convergence approach that includes other media,
> and a "tool box" theoretical/epistemological approach are a bonus.
>
> Lately I have noticed a few coming out, but wanted to tap the
> collective expertise of the list for some solid recommendations.
>
> Feel free to contact me off list, I will (as always) compile and post).
>
> Thanks,
>
> -TED
>
> --
> Ted M. Coopman Ph.D.
> Lecturer
> Department of Communication Studies
> San Jose State University
> http://www.sjsu.edu/people/ted.coopman/
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-- 
Rob Baron
PhD Candidate&  Graduate Instructor
Rhetoric, Scientific and Technical Communication
Department of Writing Studies
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities