New Data and Old Dilemmas

Changes and Continuities in Online Social Research

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2386451
AutoresNigel G Fielding, Nigel Fielding (0000-0003-2836-049X, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen25
Número8
Páginas761-772
Fecha de publicación2019-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1077800418809130
OpenAlexW2902667801
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas30

The pace of change occasioned by the affordances of new technologies is accelerating. The last 5 years have seen developments following in the train of Web 2.0 applications that are remarkable even set against the pace of change since the advent of the Internet. Yet it is important to be realistic about the depth of change. While there is a widespread view that the prevailing trope of our contemporary times in the Western democracies is that of neoliberalism, that view also testifies to the enduring grip of long-established realities of political economy. This article assesses what has really changed, and what has not, in four domains: Collaborative and Online Working, Citizen Research & Opening Up Research, Analyzing Online Materials, and Merged Methods

Affordance · Cyberspace · Geography · Media studies · Neoliberalism (international relations · Pace · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · The Internet · Trope (literature · World Wide Web · Computer Science · E-Government and Public Services · Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods · Law · Psychology · Social Media and Politics