Qualitative research and hypermedia: ethnography for the digital age

Dicks, Bella ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0402-0485, Mason, Bruce Lionel, Coffey, Amanda Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8930-0461 and Atkinson, Paul Anthony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7367-8160 2005. Qualitative research and hypermedia: ethnography for the digital age. New Technologies for Social Research Series, London: Sage.

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Abstract

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

Item Type:	Book
Book Type:	Authored Book
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher:	Sage
ISBN:	9780761960973
Last Modified:	01 Dec 2022 10:56
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/3040

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