Bookshelf
This new and evolving Bookshelf section of the site will highlight relevant books, articles and publications. Currently they are organized into three “shelves”: Qualitative Research Methodologies, Online Research Methods, and Digital Organizations and Culture. If you have others to suggest, let me know using the comment form.
- Want to learn more about collecting data through interviews?
King, N., & Horrocks, C. (2010). Interviews in qualitative research. London: Sage Publications.
Kvale, S., & Brinkman, S. (2009). InterViews: Learning the craft of qualitative research interviewing (Second ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Rubin, H. J., & Rubin, I. S. (2012). Qualitative interviewing: The art of hearing data (Third ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Seidman, I. (2006). Interviewing as qualitative research: A guide for researchers in education and the social sciences (Third ed.). New York: Teachers College Press.
Weiss, R. S. (1994). Learning from strangers: The art and method of qualitative interview studies. New York: The Free Press.
- Want to learn more about using visual research methods?
Banks, M. (2001). Visual methods in social research. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
Banks, M. (2007). Using visual data in qualitative research. London: Sage Publications.
Heath, C., Hindmarsh, J., & Luff, P. (2010). Video in qualitative research: Analysing social interaction in everyday life. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
Pink, S. (2007). Doing visual ethnography (Second ed.). London: Sage Publications.
Salmons, J. (2010). Chapter 8. Visual research and the synchronous online interview Online interviews in real time. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
- Want to learn more about analyzing qualitative data?
Bernard, H. R., & Ryan, G. (2009). Analyzing qualitative data: Systematic approaches. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
Ellingson, L. (2009). Engaging crystallization in qualitative research: An introduction. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
Grbich, C. (2007). Qualitative data analysis: An introduction. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
Miles, M., & Huberman, A. M. (1994). Qualitative data analysis: An expanded sourcebook (Second ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Richards, L. (2005). Handling qualitative data: An introduction. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
Ritchie, J., & Lewis, J. (Eds.). (2003). Qualitative research practice: A guide for social science students and researchers. London: Sage.
Silverman, D. (2006). Interpreting qualitative data: Methods for analyzing talk, text and interaction (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Wolcott, H. F. (1994). Transforming qualitative data: Description, analysis, and interpretation (Second ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Wolcott, H. F. (2001). Writing up qualitative research (Second ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage.
- Online Data Collection
Ahern, N. R. (2005). Using the internet to conduct research. Nurse Researcher, 13(2), 55-68.
Hamilton, R. J., & Bowers, B. J. (2006).Internet recruitment and e-mail interviews in qualitative studies. Qualitative Health Research, 16(6), 821-835.
Hine, C. (2005a). Internet research and the sociology of cyber-scientific knowledge. The Information Society, 21, 239-248.
Hine, C. (Ed.). (2005b).Virtual methods: Issues in social research on the Internet. Oxford: Berg.
Markham, A. N., & Baym, N. K. (Eds.). (2009).Internet inquiry: Conversations about method: Sage.
Sade-Beck, L. (2004). Internet ethnography: Online and offline. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 3(2), Article 4.
- Online Research Ethics
Berry, D. M. (2004). Internet research: privacy, ethics and alienation: an open source approach. The Journal of Internet Research, 14(4), 323-332.CEPE. (2001). Internet research ethics. Computer ethics: Philosophical enquiries.
Flicker, S., Haans, D., & Skinner, H. (2004). Ethical dilemmas in research on internet communities. Qualitative Health Research, 14(1).
Ornatowski, C. M. (2002). Ethics and the internet. Lore: Rhetoric, Writing, Culture, 2(2).
Sixsmith, J., & Murray, C. D. (2001). Ethical issues in the documentary data analysis of internet posts and archives. Qualitative Health Research, 11(3), 423-432.
Digital Scholarship The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice , by Martin Weller, published by Bloomsbury Academic. See my post on this book.
- Digital Organizations and Culture On this shelf you will find resources more broadly on topics related to virtual work, online collaboration, and related cultural phenomena.
Design and the Social Sector: An Annotated Bibliography
Digital Humanities Centers: Abstracts, papers and presentations on digital scholarship from Coalition for Networked Information conference sessions
- UCLA http://www.cni.org/topics/
digital-preservation/ laboratory-for-digital- cultural-heritage/ - University of Virginia http://www.cni.org/topics/
digital-humanities/digital- scholarship-in-an-academic- research-library/ - University of Nebraska and Brown University http://www.cni.org/topics/
digital-humanities/centers- for-digital-scholarship-and- library-leadership/ - Columbia University http://www.cni.org/topics/
learning-spaces/discipline- based-digital-centers-at- columbia/ -
metaLab at Harvard University http://metalab.harvard.edu/
- Background Information on Internet Usage:
Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School http://www.digitalcenter.org/
Internet World Stats: Usage and Population Statistics http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
Pew Internet & American Life Project http://www.pewinternet.org/
A few low-cost research-oriented ebooks from Smashwords:
- Reflexivity and Qualitative Research and Grounded Theory, Deductive Qualitative Analysis, & Social Work Research both by Dr. Jane Gilgun, professor, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA.
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The Refractive Thinker: Volume II: Research Methodology by Dr. Cheryl Lentz, professor helps doctoral scholars publish their writings within the trademarked anthology series: The Refractive Thinker®.
