Studying the Digital: Directions and Challenges for Digital Methods
Studying the Digital: Directions and Challenges for Digital Methods
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10.1146/annurev-soc-060116-053505
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2017-01-01
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Hampton, Keith N.
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Hampton, Keith N.
研究数字技术的人可以使用的方法工具箱范围从那些独特的数字方法到社会科学中已经确立的方法。这一领域的工作包括应用方法来回答有关数字技术与社交世界之间关系的问题，以及使用数字方法来回答有关离线世界的问题。新的或旧的，定量的或定性的，用于研究数字的方法都有这个研究领域所特有的优点和缺点。这些问题包括有关网络体验的范围，跟踪数据的有效性，以及在线和离线交互之间的分析划分的问题。本文综述了不同的方法，它们的历史，以及它们的优点和缺点，适用于数字技术的研究，包括民族志方法，访谈，调查，时间和媒体日记，跟踪数据和在线实验的概述。
The methodological tool chest available to those who study digital technologies ranges from those that are uniquely digital methods to approaches that are well established in the social sciences. This domain of work includes the application of methods to answer questions about the relationship between digital technologies and the social world, as well as the use of digital methods to answer questions about the offline world. New or old, quantitative or qualitative, the methods used to study the digital have strengths and weaknesses unique to this area of research. These issues include questions about the scope of cyberethnography, the validity of trace data, and the analytical division between on- and offline interaction. This review focuses on an overview of different methods, their history, and their strengths and weaknesses as applied to the study of digital technologies, including ethnographic approaches, interviews, surveys, time and media diaries, trace data, and online experiments.