Online Interviews Media Kit
Edited by Janet Salmons, Ph.D.
Vision2Lead, Inc. and Capella University School of Business and Technology
In print, e-book and CourseSmart editions from Sage Publications
Overview
Cases in Online Interview Research is a selective collection of peer-reviewed case studies and critiques. Ten researchers were each invited to create a case study of the online research dimension of their research in a consistent format that encourages cross-case comparisons. Data for these studies were collected through interviews in social media spaces, through videoconferencing and in online meeting spaces, and in virtual worlds. Their cases offer the opportunity to scrutinize the inner workings of research design and conduct, illuminating the steps, decisions, joys, frustrations and discoveries of scholarly e-research interviews. The book is organized to promote dialogue about online interview research, and to provide guidelines for those who design—or review—studies using this emergent method.
Each case is followed by two commentaries from a peer contributor and from the editor. Critiques offer a sense of dialogue within the book, a dialogue readers can continue in the classroom, in assignments, or in discussions of the interplay of emerging technologies and emergent research. The editor’s analyses of each case, and the metasynthesis of all cases in the final chapter, are based on her original
E-Interview Research Framework.
The E-Interview Research Framework is the basis for analyzing a study’s research design, ethical issues and approach for using communications technologies to collect data with interviews and related observations. The framework includes eight inter-related categories
with key questions.
The international group of researchers represents diverse disciplines, including business, education, psychology, climate science, communications, museum studies and health. They use varied qualitative methodologies including case study, grounded theory, action research, and phenomenology.
Cases in Online Interview Research is can be used in conjunction with Salmons 2010 book, Online Interviews in Real Time, which provides both theoretical and practical steps for using the interactive Web 2.0 for dynamic interviews in text-based, videoconference, meeting space or 3D immersive environments.
The Cases
- Blog Like An Egyptian by Sally Bishai, Keiser University, USA
- Stranger in a Strange Land: Online Interviews Within the Social Networking Space by Allison Deegan, California State College, Long Beach, USA
- Interviewing in Virtual Worlds: An Application of Best Practices by Jonathan Cabiria, Walden University, USA
- Beneficial Interview Effects in Virtual Worlds by Ann Randall, University of Idaho
- Learning to Work Inworld by Taryn Stanko, Lunquist School of Business, University of Oregon and Jonathan Richter, Center for Learning in Virtual Environments, University of Oregon, USA
- Guides and Visitors: Capturing Stories in Virtual World and Interactive Web Experiencesby Patricia Wall, Jonas Karlsson, Zahra Langford, Tong Sun, Wei Peng (Xerox Research Center Webster, Webster, NY) and Eric Bier (Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA) Christian Overland, Lisa Korzetz, Mike Butman and Suzanne Fischer (The Henry Ford).
- Putting the Action into Online Research: Transitioning from F2F to Online Instruction
by Wendy L. Kraglund-Gauthier, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada - Integrated Interdisciplinary Online Interviews in Science and Health by Lynn Wilson, Ph.D., Sea Trust and Kaplan University, Olympia Washington
- Implementing Technology in Blended Learning Courses by Nellie Deutsch, Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learning, Toronto, Canada, University of Phoenix, USA
- Online Asynchronous and Face-To-Face Interviewing: Comparing Methods for Exploring Women’s Experiences of Breastfeeding Long-Term by Sally Dowling, University of the West of England, UK
- Building the Bike While Riding It: Creating E-Interview Methods while Conducting Research A Meta-Synthesis of the Cases by Janet Salmons
Target Audience
- Independent scholars and experienced or student researchers
- Faculty who teach research methods or courses with a strong research component
- Scholars and students interested in Internet studies or digital humanities
- Dissertation chairs or committee members, thesis advisers
- Institutional Review Board or ethics board members
- Instructional designers or instructional technologists
Related Resources
Sage “Study Sites” contain sample syllabi using one or both books, assignment ideas and discussion themes, research design materials based on the E-Interview Research Framework and additional resources. The Study Site for Online Interviews in Real Time is available now; the site for Cases in Online Interview Research will be live November 2011.
Webinars and online events about the book and its topics will be announced, and recorded events available for download, at www.vision2lead.com. Social media: einterview on Twitter, Online Interviews on Facebook. See selected reviews for both books.
Janet Salmons has served on the graduate faculty of the Capella University School of Business and Technology since 1999. She is a scholar-practitioner and consultant through her company, Vision2Lead, Inc.. Dr. Salmons is a frequent presenter for face-to-face, online and virtual world seminars and conferences. In addition to Cases in Online Interview Research (2012) and Online Interviews in Real Time (2010) from Sage Publications, she edited the Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy with Lynn Wilson (2009) and other articles and chapters.
Contact Details
For book or distribution inquiries
Helen Salmon, Executive Marketing Manager
SAGE Publications, Inc.
Helen.Salmon@sagepub.com
Phone: 805.410.7217
For media, author interviews or other inquiries
Dr. Janet Salmons
einterview@vision2lead.com
