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  • Information and Influence: Collective Information Processing under Societal Threat

    Edited by Martin Wood, Alexei Filinkov, Lucia Falzon, Robert Ackland, Lewis Mitchell, Yoshihisa Kashima ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    How can we ensure that societies adapt to the threats confronting us in the 21st Century? From climate change to civil unrest and extremism, solving these complex societal threats will require coordinated collective responses at a scale not otherwise seen in the 21st Century. Yet recent world events involving political interference and misinformation demonstrate that the process of collective ... Read more

    $192.19 CAD

  • Web Social Science

    Concepts, Data and Tools for Social Scientists in the Digital Age

    by Robert Ackland ...
    Although written simply enough to be accessible to undergraduates, accomplished scholars are likely to appreciate it too. Reading it taught me quite a lot about a subject I thought I knew rather well.- Paul Vogt, Illinois State University"This book brings the art and science of building and applying innovative online research tools to students and faculty across the social sciences."- William H. ... Read more

    $89.59 CAD

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  • Knowledge Resistance in High-Choice Information Environments

    Edited by Jesper Strömbäck, Åsa Wikforss, Kathrin Glüer, Torun Lindholm, Henrik Oscarsson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics
    This book offers a truly interdisciplinary exploration of our patterns of engagement with politics, news, and information in current high-choice information environments. Putting forth the notion that high-choice information environments may contribute to increasing misperceptions and knowledge resistance rather than greater public knowledge, the book offers insights into the processes that ... Read more

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  • The Theory and Practice of Online Learning

    by Terry Anderson ...
    Series series Issues in Distance Education
    Every chapter in the widely distributed first edition has been updated, and four new chapters on current issues such as connectivism and social software innovations have been added. Essays by practitioners and scholars active in the complex, diverse, and rapidly evolving field of distance education blend scholarship and research; practical attention to the details of teaching and learning; and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Doing Realist Research

    Edited by Nick Emmel, Joanne Greenhalgh, Ana Manzano, Mark Monaghan, Sonia Dalkin ...
    Bringing together leading theorists, researchers and policy makers with expertise in using realist methods, this book is a definitive guide to putting realist methodologies into practice.Not just an overview of the field, this book looks to extend current debates and apply realist methods to new and practical challenges in social research. Featuring practical, worked examples of how to turn theory ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • When to Use What Research Design

    by W. Paul Vogt, PhD, Dianne C. Gardner, PhD, Lynne M. Haeffele, PhD ...
    Systematic, practical, and accessible, this is the first book to focus on finding the most defensible design for a particular research question. Thoughtful guidelines are provided for weighing the advantages and disadvantages of various methods, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods designs. The book can be read sequentially or readers can dip into chapters on specific stages of ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Agent-Based Computational Sociology

    by Flaminio Squazzoni ...
    Most of the intriguing social phenomena of our time, such as international terrorism, social inequality, and urban ethnic segregation, are consequences of complex forms of agent interaction that are difficult to observe methodically and experimentally. This book looks at a new research stream that makes use of advanced computer simulation modelling techniques to spotlight agent interaction that ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • E-Research

    Transformation in Scholarly Practice

    Edited by Nicholas W. Jankowski ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Research Methods
    No less than a revolutionary transformation of the research enterprise is underway. This transformation extends beyond the natural sciences, where 'e-research' has become the modus operandi, and is penetrating the social sciences and humanities, sometimes with differences in accent and label. Many suggest that the very essence of scholarship in these areas is changing. The everyday procedures and ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology

    Edited by Adam Joinson, Katelyn McKenna, Tom Postmes, Ulf-Dietrich Reips ...
    Series series Oxford Library of Psychology
    Over one billion people use the Internet globally. Psychologists are beginning to understand what people do online, and the impact being online has on behaviour. It's making us re-think many of our existing assumptions about what it means to be a social being. For instance, if we can talk, flirt, meet people and fall in love online, this challenges many of psychology's theories that intimacy or ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

  • The Handbook of Online and Social Media Research

    Tools and Techniques for Market Researchers

    by Ray Poynter ...
    Drawing together the new techniques available to the market researcher into a single reference, The Handbook of Online and Social Media Research explores how these innovations are being used by the leaders in the field. This groundbreaking reference examines why traditional research is broken, both in theory and practice, and includes chapters on online research communities, community panels, blog ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Educational Design Research

    Edited by Jan Van den Akker, Koeno Gravemeijer, Susan McKenney, Nienke Nieveen ...
    The field of design research has been gaining momentum over the last five years, particularly in educational studies. As papers and articles have grown in number, definition of the domain is now beginning to standardise. This book fulfils a growing need by providing a synthesised assessment of the use of development research in education. It looks at four main elements:background information ... Read more

    $111.99 CAD

  • GIS Research Methods

    Incorporating Spatial Perspectives

    by Sheila Lakshmi Steinberg, Steven J. Steinberg ...
    GIS Research Methods: Incorporating Spatial Perspectives shows researchers how to incorporate spatial thinking and geographic information system (GIS) technology into research design and analysis. Topics include research design, digital data sources, volunteered geographic information, analysis using GIS, and how to link research results to policy and action. The concepts presented in GIS Research ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD