Researching Digital Life

<p>We now live in a world where all aspects of everyday life are thoroughly mediated by digital technologies. Making sense of digital life is accordingly an essential undertaking for social science and humanities scholars.</p><p>This multidisciplinary book provides an essential guide to researching digital life:</p><ul><li>Orienting readers with respect to methodologies research design and research ethics.</li><li>Detailing key research methods including interviews surveys ethnographies walking methodologies arts-based and participatory approaches historical analysis data visualisation mapping and data analytics.</li><li>Demonstrating these methods in action in real-world studies that have investigated apps and interfaces social and locative media mobilities smart cities and digital labour and work.</li></ul><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The authors provide:</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• Non-Eurocentric perspectives and case studies from diverse disciplines </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• Annotated further reading to help you situate your research alongside existing research in your field </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• An outline of future directions for researching digital life.</span></p><p>Accessible in style and richly illustrated the chapters provide a wealth of key insights and practical information to ensure research projects are successfully planned and implemented.</p>