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Here, experts examine ways in which the use of increasingly powerful and versatile digital information and communication technologies are transforming research activities across all disciplines.

Research --- Information technology. --- Methodology. --- Technological innovations. --- Electronic books --- INFORMATION SCIENCE/Internet Studies --- INFORMATION SCIENCE/General

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An analysis of the ways that new media are experienced and studied as the subjects of history, using the examples of early recorded sound and digital networks.

Communication and technology --- Mass media --- History. --- Technology and communication --- Technology --- DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media History --- INFORMATION SCIENCE/Internet Studies --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies

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Behind-the-scenes stories of how Internet research projects actually get done.The realm of the digital offers both new methods of research and new objects of study. Because the digital environment for scholarship is constantly evolving, researchers must sometimes improvise, change their plans, and adapt. These details are often left out of research write-ups, leaving newcomers to the field frustrated when their approaches do not work as expected. Digital Research Confidential offers scholars a chance to learn from their fellow researchers' mistakes--and their successes. The book--a follow-up to Eszter Hargittai's widely read Research Confidential--presents behind-the-scenes, nuts-and-bolts stories of digital research projects, written by established and rising scholars. They discuss such challenges as archiving, Web crawling, crowdsourcing, and confidentiality. They do not shrink from specifics, describing such research hiccups as an ethnographic interview so emotionally draining that afterward the researcher retreated to a bathroom to cry, and the seemingly simple research question about Wikipedia that mushroomed into years of work on millions of data points. Digital Research Confidential will be an essential resource for scholars in every field.ContributorsMegan Sapnar Ankerson, danah boyd, Amy Bruckman, Casey Fiesler, Brooke Foucault Welles, Darren Gergle, Eric Gilbert, Eszter Hargittai, Brent Hecht, Aron Hsiao, Karrie Karahalios, Paul Leonardi, Kurt Luther, Virag Molnar, Christian Sandvig, Aaron Shaw, Michelle Shumate, Matthew Weber

Social sciences --- Social networks --- Internet searching. --- Social scientists --- Research. --- Attitudes. --- INFORMATION SCIENCE/Internet Studies --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Sociology --- INFORMATION SCIENCE/Communications & Telecommunications

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Modern science is increasingly collaborative, and this volume looks at the challenges and rewards of scientific collaboration enabled by information and communication technology, from theoretical approaches to in-depth case studies.

Science --- Internet. --- Computer network resources. --- DARPA Internet --- Internet (Computer network) --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Wide area networks (Computer networks) --- World Wide Web --- INFORMATION SCIENCE/Internet Studies --- INFORMATION SCIENCE/General --- Natural sciences

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An investigation of how governments, organizations, and groups use the Internet to promote civic and political engagement among young people. There has been widespread concern in contemporary Western societies about declining engagement in civic life; people are less inclined to vote, to join political parties, to campaign for social causes, or to trust political processes. Young people in particular are frequently described as alienated or apathetic. Some have looked optimistically to new media--and particularly the Internet--as a means of revitalizing civic life and democracy. Governments, political parties, charities, NGOs, activists, religious and ethnic groups, and grassroots organizations have created a range of youth-oriented websites that encourage widely divergent forms of civic engagement and use varying degrees of interactivity. But are young people really apathetic and lacking in motivation? Does the Internet have the power to re-engage those disenchanted with politics and civic life? Based on a major research project funded by the European Commission, this book attempts to understand the role of the Internet in promoting young people's participation. Examples are drawn from Hungary, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, and the United Kingdom--countries offering contrasting political systems and cultural contexts. The book also addresses broader questions about the meaning of civic engagement, the nature of new forms of participation, and their implications for the future of civic life.

Youth --- Internet and youth. --- Internet --- Political activity. --- Political aspects. --- Youth and the Internet --- Politics and young people --- Youth in politics --- INFORMATION SCIENCE/Internet Studies --- DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/General --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General