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Reading List: Research Methods

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Here we collect books, articles and guidelines about research methods & research ethics.

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Feminist Research

Bardzell, S., & Bardzell, J. (2011).Towards a Feminist HCI Methodology: Social Science, Feminism, and HCI. SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’11), 675–684. https://doi.org/dc47ft

Carstensen, T., & Winker, G. (2012). Intersektionalität in der Internetforschung. Medien Und Kommunikationswissenschaften, 60(1), 3–23. https://doi.org/110.5771/1615-634x-2012--3

Cooky, C., Linabary, J. R., & Corple, D. J. (2018). Navigating Big Data dilemmas: Feminist holistic reflexivity in social media research. Big Data & Society, 5(2), 205395171880773. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951718807731

Farrell, T., Fernandez, M., Novotny, J., & Alani, H. (2019). Exploring misogyny across the manosphere in reddit. WebSci 2019 - Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Web Science, 87–96. https://sci-hub.tw/10.1145/3292522.3326045

Gunaratnam, Y., & Hamilton, C. (2017). Introduction: the Wherewithal of Feminist Methods. Feminist Review, 115(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41305-017-0023-5

Jackson, S. J., & Banaszczyk, S. (2016). Digital Standpoints: Debating Gendered Violence and Racial Exclusions in the Feminist Counterpublic. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 40(4), 391–407. https://doi.org/10.1177/0196859916667731

Leurs, K. (2017). Feminist data studies: Using digital methods for ethical, reflexive and situated socio-cultural research. Feminist Review, 115(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1057/S41305-017-0043-1

Linabary, J. R. & Hamel, S. A. (2017). Feminist Online Interviewing: Engaging Issues of Power, Resistance and Reflexivity in Practice. Feminist Review, 115(1), 97–113. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41305-017-0041-3

McMillan, T. (2016). Black CyberFeminism: Intersectionality, Institutions and Digital Sociology. In J. Daniels, K. Gregory, & T. M. Cottom (Eds.), Digital Sociologies. Bristol: Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.3386/w19846

McMillan, T. (2016). Intersectionality and critical engagement with the internet. The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class and Culture Online. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2568956

Morrow, O., Hawkins, R., & Kern, L. (2015). Feminist research in online spaces. Gender, Place and Culture, 22(4), 526–543. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2013.879108

Suomela, T. et al. (2019). Applying an Ethics of Care to Internet Research: Gamergate and Digital Humanities. Digital Studies/Le Champ Numérique, 9(1), 1–28. https://doi.org/10.16995/dscn.302

Tandon, A. (2018). Feminist methodology in Technology Research. https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/feminist-methodoloty-in-technology-research.pdf

Vera-Gray, F. (2017). “Talk About a Cunt With Too Much Idle Time”: Trolling Feminist Research. Feminist Review, 115(1), 61–78. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41305-017-0038-y

Internet Research & Digital Methods

Brooker, P., Barnett, J., & Cribbin, T. (2016). Doing social media analytics. Big Data & Society, 3(2), 205395171665806. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951716658060

Burbules, N. C. (2009). Privacy and New Technologies: The Limits of Traditional Research Ethics. In D. M. Mertens & P. E. Ginsberg (Eds.), The Handbook of Social Research Ethics (pp. 537–550). Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications.

Coleman, G. E. (2010). Ethnographic Approaches to Digital Media. Annual Review of Anthropology, 39(1), 487–505. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.012809.104945

Crawford, K. (2009). Following you: Disciplines of listening in social media. Continuum, 23(4), 525–535. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304310903003270

Davis, J. L., & Love, T. P. (2018). Generalizing from social media data: a formal theory approach. Information, Communication & Society, 0(0), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2018.1555610

Goulden, M. et al. (2017). Wild interdisciplinarity: ethnography and computer science. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 20(2), 137–150. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2016.1152022

Hand, M. & Hillyard, S. (2014). Big Data? Qualitative Approaches to Digital Research. Emerald Insight. https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/S1042-3192201413

Hewitt, S., Tiropanis, T., & Bokhove, C. (2016). The problem of identifying misogynist language on Twitter (and other online social spaces). WebSci 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Web Science Conference, 333–335. https://doi.org/10.1145/2908131.2908183

Hutchinson, J. (2016). An introduction to digital media research methods: how to research and the implications of new media data. Communication, Research & Practice, 2(1), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2016.1155307

Lohmeier, C. (2014). The Researcher and the Never-Ending Field: Reconsidering Big Data and Digital Ethnography. In Big data? Qualitative approaches to digital research (pp. 75–89). https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.190630

Matias, N. J., & et al. (2016). High Impact Questions and Opportunities for Online Harassment Research and Action. Cambridge, MA. https://civic.mit.edu/sites/civic.mit.edu/files/OnlineHarassmentWorkshopReport-08.2016.pdf

Marres, N. (2015). Why Map Issues?: On Controversy Analysis as a Digital Method. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 40(5), 1–32. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243915574602

Marres, N., & Moats, D. (2015). Mapping controversies with social media: The case for symmetry. Social Media + Society, 1(2), 1–37. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305115604176

Murthy, D. (2008). Digital Ethnography: An Examination of the Use of New Technologies for Social Research. Sociology, 42(5), 837–855. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038508094565

Pearce, W. et al. (2018). Visual cross-platform analysis: digital methods to research social media images. Information, Communication & Society, 0(0), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2018.1486871

Rogers, R. (2015). Digital methods for web research. In Emerging Trends in the Behavioral and Social Sciences (pp. 1–22). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118900772

Shah, N. (2017). The State of the Internets: Notes for a New Historiography of Technosociality. In G. Goggin & M. McLelland (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories (pp. 49–60). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315748962

Silva, L., Mondal, M., Correa, D., Benevenuto, F., & Weber, I. (2016). Analyzing the Targets of Hate in Online Social Media. AAAI ICWSM, (June). https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.07709

Smith, R. J. (2014). Big data?: qualitative approaches to digital research. In Big data? Qualitative approaches to digital research (pp. 181–204). https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.190630

St. Pierre, E. a. (2013). The Appearance of Data. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 13(4), 223–227. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708613487862

Veltri, G. A. (2017). Big Data is not only about data: The two cultures of modelling. Big Data & Society, 4(1), 205395171770399. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951717703997

Wills, T. (2016). Social media as a research environment. Communication, Research & Practice, 2(1), 7–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2016.1155312

Research Ethics & Knowledge Production

Association of Internet Research (2019). Internet Research: Ethical Guidelines 3.0. AoIR https://aoir.org/ethics/

Fiesler, C., & Proferes, N. (2018). “Participant” Perceptions of Twitter Research Ethics. Social Media + Society, 4(1), 205630511876336. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305118763366

Luka, M. E., & Millette, M. (2018). (Re)framing Big Data: Activating Situated Knowledges and a Feminist Ethics of Care in Social Media Research. Social Media and Society, 4(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305118768297

O ’Connell, A. (2016). My Entire Life is Online: Informed Consent, Big Data, and Decolonial Knowledge. Intersectionalities: A Global Journal of Social Work Analysis, Research, Polity, and Practice, 5(1), 68–93.

Richterich, A. (2018). Tracing controversies in hacker communities: ethical considerations for internet research. Information, Communication & Society, 0(0), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2018.1486867

Suchman, L. (2002). Located accountabilities in technology production. Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, 14(2), 91–105. https://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1082&context=sjis

Williams, M. L., Burnap, P., & Sloan, L. (2017). Towards an Ethical Framework for Publishing Twitter Data in Social Research: Taking into Account Users’ Views, Online Context and Algorithmic Estimation. Sociology, 51(6), 1149–1168. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038517708140