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Communicating virtually

Orgad covers a lot of ground with respect to social science research with an online component, but Taylor, in the optional reading, goes a s...

Studying People on the and off the Internet

I found a lot of what Orgad had to say about the blurring of the "online" "offline" line really interesting. Researchers...

Is All Science Relative?

I found the Pinch & Bijker article quite interesting, if a bit wacky with all those acronyms.  I know it's a bit dated, and some of ...

Detectives of Case Analysis

In Yin’s piece this week he discusses ways in which case studies can be approached systematically while disputing the harsh critique presen...

Frequency Counts in Content Analysis

I wanted to add to our group’s discussion about content analysis. As another blogger mentioned, the content analysis approach is systematic ...

For Those Interested

Given van Dijk's savaging of Marcus Fox's speech regarding the Honeyford case, I was rather surprised that none of the original arti...

Debating the usefulness of research methods

Call me naive, but I still find myself fascinated with the amount of discussion that surrounds some research methods – particularly discussi...