Tools for digital researchers
This could is set up to collect information and resources about tools, tecniques and training opportunities addressing researchers in the current digital era.
"Digital Research Tools (DiRT) is a wiki which collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. It provides a directory of tools organized by research activity, as well as reviews of select tools in which we not only describe the tool's features, but also explore how it might be employed most effectively by researchers."
Many of the tools they list and describe are social media tools, including a page about data collection: https://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/Collect-Data.com/Collect-Data
"There are many available tools that allow you to input or collect data online, export the data in a variety of formats, and even publish it on the web."
The website also includes a list of selected Articles and Reports on Digital Scholarship.
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Social media: A guide for researchers is out! "The guide has been produced by the International Centre of Guidance Studies and aims to provide the information needed to make an informed decision about using social media and select from the vast range of tools that are available".
A list of resources, case studies from researchers and an informative guide can be downloaded from the Research Information Network's website.
Antonella Esposito
18:31 on 10 February 2011 (Edited 18:33 on 10 February 2011)
- Couper, M.P. (2007),'Whither the Web: Web 2.0 and the Changing World of Web Surveys', in ASC 2007. THE CHALLENGES OF A CHANGING WORLD, Association of Survey Computing. Available from: http://74.125.155.132/scholar?q=cache:Au6G08-bS1cJ:scholar.google.com/+"research+2.0"*tools&hl=en&as_sdt=2000
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added by Antonella Esposito - Myhill, M.,Shoebridge, M.,Snook, L. (2009),'Virtual research environments – a Web 2.0 cookbook?', in Library Hi Tech, vol.27, n.2, pp. 228 - 238. Abstract available from:
http://demo1.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do?contentType=Article&hdAction=lnkhtml&contentId;=
1795759&history=false
added by Antonella Esposito - Mortensen, T. and Walker, J. (2002) 'Blogging thoughts: personal publication as an online research
tool', in Researching ICTs in context, Oslo, Intermedia, Norway, University of Oslo
added by Antonella Esposito - di Gregorio, S. (2010),'Using Web 2.0 Tools for Qualitative Analysis: An Exploration', HICSS, pp.1-10, 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2010. Available at:
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/HICSS.2010.432
added by Antonella Esposito - Locatelli, E.(2010), 'I blog personali da oggetto a strumento di ricerca sociale: un approfondimento metodologico', in Monaci, S. and Scifo, B. (eds) Sociologia 2.0. Pratiche sociali e metodologie di ricerca sui media partecipativi, Napoli, ScriptaWeb
added by Antonella Esposito - Snee, H. (2008), Web 2.0 as a Social Science Research Tool, Report on behalf of the British Library. Available from: http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/socsci/socint/web2/web2.pdf Opens in new window
added by Antonella Esposito - Hookway, N. (2008),`Entering the blogosphere': some strategies for using blogs in social research Qualitative Research February 2008 8: 91-113
added by Antonella Esposito - Dan Li and Walejko, G. (2008), 'SPLOGS AND ABANDONED BLOGS: The perils of sampling bloggers and their blogs', Information, Communication & Society, Volume 11, Issue 2 March 2008 , pages 279 - 296
added by Antonella Esposito - Dinesh Rathi, Lisa M. Given, "Research 2.0: A Framework for Qualitative and Quantitative Research in Web 2.0 Environments," hicss, pp.1-10, 2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2010. Full text available from: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/HICSS.2010.317
added by Antonella Esposito - Salganik, Matthew J. and Karen E.C. Levy. 2012. "Wiki surveys: Open and quantifiable social data collection." Working paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.0500
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