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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819704403321

Autore

Dicks Bella

Titolo

Qualitative research and hypermedia : ethnography for the digital age / / Bella Dicks, Bruce Mason, Amanda Coffey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, CA, : SAGE Publications, 2005

ISBN

1-84920-964-2

1-281-79472-4

9786611794729

1-84787-709-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 200 p.)

Collana

New technologies for social research

Altri autori (Persone)

CoffeyAmanda <1967->

MasonBruce

Disciplina

305.80072

Soggetti

Ethnology - Computer network resources

Ethnology - Research

Ethnology

Internet

Database searching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-183) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Qualitative Research for the Digital World; Chapter 1 - Hypertext, Hypermedia and Qualitative Methods; Chapter 2 - Ethnographic Paradigms: Technologies and Representations; Chapter 3 - Hypertext Roots/Routes; Chapter 4 - Multi-semiotic Ethnography; Chapter 5 - The Hypermedia Toolbox; Chapter 6 - Hypermedia Fieldwork; Chapter 7 - Hypermedia Data Analysis; Chapter 8 - Hyper Representation; Notes; References; Filmography; List of hypertexts; List of software programs referred to in text; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this important text, the authors present the tools qualitative researchers need to conduct ethnograpic research in the age of e-mail and the Internet, introducing readers to emerging methods that utilize new technologies and explaining how to use these technologies to conduct data analysis.