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Innovations in Digital Research Methods
Peter Halfpenny
Rob Procter
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Chapter 1: © Peter Halfpenny and Rob Proctor 2015
Chapter 2: © Kingsley Purdam and Mark Elliot 2015
Chapter 3: © Kingsley Purdam and Mark Elliot 2015
Chapter 4: © Joe Murphy 2015
Chapter 5: © Paul S. Lambert 2015
Chapter 6: © Mark Birkin and Nick Malleson 2015
Chapter 7: © Paul S. Lambert, William J. Browne and Danius T. Michaelides 2015
Chapter 8: © Lawrence Ampofo, Simon Collister, Ben O’Loughlin and Andrew Chadwick 2015
Chapter 9: © Andy Crabtree, Paul Tennent, Pat Brundell and Dawn Knight 2015
Chapter 10: © Rob Ackland and Jonathan Zhu 2015
Chapter 11: © Michael Batty, Steven Gray, Andrew Hudson-Smith, Richard Milton, Oliver O’Brien and Flora Roumpani 2015
Chapter 12: © R.J. Anderson and Marina Jirotka 2015
Chapter 13: © Mike Savage 2015
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List of Contributors
Robert Acklandis an Associate Professor in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. He gained his PhD in economics at the ANU, focusing on index number theory in the context of cross-country comparisons of income and inequality. Robert has been studying online social and organizational networks since 2002 and he established the Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks (http://voson.anu.edu.au) in 2005. Robert established and teaches the Social Science of the Internet specialization of the ANU’s Master of Social Research, and his book Web Social Science: Concepts, Data and Tools for Social Scientists in the Digital Age (SAGE) was published in July 2013.Lawrence Ampofoearned his PhD in social media, security, and online behaviour at the New Political Communication Unit at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2012. He is founder and director of Semantica Research, a company that provides social media analysis for public, voluntary, and private sector organizations. Lawrence tweets as @lampofo.Professor Bob Andersonis Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. Having retired as Pro Vice Chancellor and CEO of University Campus Suffolk, Bob joined the Horizon Digital Research Institute in Nottingham. Bob taught for many years at Manchester Polytechnic (later Manchester Metropolitan University). Since 1988, he was taken up mostly with managerial roles, first as Director of the Xerox Research Laboratory in Cambridge, then as Pro Vice Chancellor for Research and Business Development at Sheffield Hallam University, and then at University Campus Suffolk. When Bob was an active researcher, he, together with Wes Sharrock and John Hughes, undertook a number of what have become classic Ethnomethodological investigations in different settings. These included an entrepreneurial firm, the London Air Traffic Control Centre, and Xerox itself. These investigations were reported in a number of books, reports and papers. Whilst at Xerox, Bob was one of the leading proponents of the use of ethnographic approaches to data collection in the design and development of advanced systems.Michael Battyis Professor of Spatial Analysis at University College London in the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA). He has worked on computer models of cities and their visualisation since the 1970s and has published several books, such as Cities and Complexity (MIT Press, 2005), which won the Alonso Prize of the Regional Science Association in 2011, and most recently The New Science of Cities (MIT Press, 2013). His blogs cover the science underpinning the technology of cities (www.complexcity.info as well as his posts and lectures on big data and smart cities (www.spatialcomplexity.info).Mark Birkinis
