| Description |
1 online resource (231 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; From Trena; From Alyssa; From Both; Chapter 1: Why Investigate Online Talk? Introducing the Research Design Framework; Scope of the Chapter; Introduction; About the Authors; Definitions and Scope of the Book; What Counts as Insight, Transformation, and Learning?; Introducing the Research Design Framework; The Structure of this Book; Chapter-by-Chapter Descriptions; Chapter Summary; Note; References; Chapter 2: What Are We Looking For? Identifying the Object of Interest |
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Scope of the ChapterIntroduction; What is an "Object of Interest"?; From the Entry Point to the Object of Interest; Narrowing the Focus; After the Object of Interest has been Defined; Chapter Summary; References; Chapter 3: What Does Online Talk Represent? Philosophical Assumptions and Methodological Alignment; Scope of the Chapter; Introduction; Assumptions about the Object; Assumptions about Language; Assumptions about Knowledge Claims; Chapter Summary; Note; References; Chapter 4: What is the Research Question and Approach? Informing the Study Design from Prior Work; Scope of the Chapter |
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IntroductionIdentifying the Audience; Role of the Literature Review and Use of Theory; Articulating a Problem Statement; Defining the Research Question; Methodology as Research Genre; Criteria for Establishing Quality; Researcher Influence on the Online Talk Environment; Chapter Summary; Notes; References; Chapter 5: When Can Online Talk be Treated as Data? Ethical Practices; Scope of the Chapter; Introduction; Guidelines Provided by Ethics Boards and Professional Organizations; Ethical Practices in Treating Researcher-Influenced Online Talk as Data |
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Ethical Practices in Treating Pre-Existing Online Talk as DataConsidering the Ethics of Treating Social Media Sites as Data Sources; Justifying and Reporting Decisions to Treat Online Talk as Data; Chapter Summary; Notes; References; Chapter 6: How Will the Data be Acquired? Characterizing, Bounding, and Extracting Online Talk as a Data Source; Scope of the Chapter; Introduction; Characterizing the Online Talk Environment; Technological Context; Situational Context; Bounding the Data; Determining Units of Analysis and Making Sampling Decisions; Strategies for Extracting Data |
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Data Archiving and Re-UseChapter Summary; References; Chapter 7: How Will the Data be Analyzed? Part One: Quantitative Approaches including Content Analysis, Statistical Modeling, and Computational Methods (with Robyn Singleton); Scope of the Chapter; Introduction; Examining Patterns of Social Connection with Social Network Analysis; Examining What is Being Talked about with Topic Modeling; Examining How Online Talk Proceeds: Step 1, Indexing Qualities of the Messages; Examining How the Online Talk Proceeds: Step 2, Analyzing the Indexed Qualities of the Messages |
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Examining How the Online Talk Proceeds: Step 2, Option 1, Multilevel Modeling |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Wise, Alyssa
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| ISBN |
9781315283241 |
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1315283247 |
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