Core Readings

Bowker Geoffrey C. and Star Susan (2001) Sorting Things Out. Publication Info: Ann Arbor, MI: MPublishing, University of Michigan Library April 2001

Buchanan E (ed) (2004) Readings in Virtual Research Ethics: Issues and Controversies. IGI (http://www.igi-global.com/book/readings-virtual-research-ethics/858)

Elliot, M, K Purdam, E Mackey (2013) Data Horizons. New Forms of Data For Social Research, University of Manchester, CCSR Report 2013-3 12/6/2013 http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/publications/Data_Horizons_Report.pdf

Neff, G. (2013). Why Big Data Won’t Cure Us. Big Data, 1(3), 117–123. doi:10.1089/big.2013.0029

Hamadeh, N, Marko Rissanen, and Mizuki Yamanaka (World Bank) (2012), Crowd-sourced price data collection through mobile phones, NTTS 2013, http://www.cros-portal.eu/sites/default/files//NTTS2013fullPaper_82-v2.pdf

Howison, J. (2011). Validity Issues in the Use of Social Network Analysis with Digital Trace Data. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 12(12), 767–797.

Ipeirotis, P. G. (2010a). Demographics of Mechanical Turk. working paper CeDER-10-01, New York University, Stern School of Business. http://hdl.handle.net/2451/29585

Ipeirotis, P. G., & Paritosh, P. K. (2011). Managing crowdsourced human computation. In Proceedings of the 20th international conference companion on World wide web - WWW ’11 (p. 287). New York, New York, USA: ACM Press. doi:10.1145/1963192.1963314

Lazer, D., Brewer, D., Christakis, N., Fowler, J., & King, G. (2009). Life in the network: the coming age of computational social science. Science, 323(5915), 721–723. doi:10.1126/science.1167742.Life

Levallois, Clement ,Stephanie Steinmetz, Paul Wouters (2013) Sloppy Data Floods or Precise Social Science Methodologies?. In Paul Wouters, Anne Beaulieu, Andrea Scharnhorst and Sally Wyatt (2013) Virtual Knowledge. Experimenting in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, MIT Press http://www.clementlevallois.net/download/datafloods_2013.pdf

Lupton D (2013) Digital Sociology, Routledge

Marres, N. (2012). The redistribution of methods: on intervention in digital social research, broadly conceived. Live Methods: Sociological Review Monographs. Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/7773/1/Marres_redistribution_of_methods.pdf

Miller, D . Slater D (2000) The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach. Oxford:Berg.

Miller, D . (2011) Tales from Facebook. Cambridge: Polity.

Miller, D and Horst H (eds) (2012) Digital Anthropology. Oxford: Berg.

Purdam, K. (2014). Citizen social science and citizen data? Methodological and ethical challenges for social research. Current Sociology, 62(3), 374–392. doi:10.1177/0011392114527997

Rogers, R. (2013). Digital methods. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: The MIT Press.

Savage, M., & Burrows, R. (2007). The Coming Crisis of Empirical Sociology. Sociology, 41(5), 885–899. doi:10.1177/0038038507080443

Silvertown, J. (2009). A new dawn for citizen science. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 24(9), 467–71. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2009.03.017

Stewart, J (2014) From Crowd to Cloud: Online work exchanges for freelancing and 'crowdsourced' labour JRC Scientific and Policy Report (Forthcoming)

Swan, M. (2013). The Quantified Self: Fundamental Disruption in Big Data Science and Biological Discovery. Big Data, 1(2), 85–99. doi:10.1089/big.2012.0002

Von Ahn, L., & Dabbish, L. (2004). Labeling images with a computer game. In Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI ’04 (pp. 319–326). New York, New York, USA: ACM Press. doi:10.1145/985692.985733

Zimmer, M. (2010). But the data is already public: On the ethics of research in Facebook. Ethics & Information Technology, 12(4), 313-325.

Report of the Working Party on Conducting Research on the Internet: Guidelines for ethical practice in psychological research online, British Psychological Society , 2007 http://www.bps.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/conducting_research_on_the_internet-guidelines_for_ethical_practice_in_psychological_research_online.pdf

Ethical Decision-Making and Internet Research Recommendations from the AoIR Ethics Working Committee (Version 2.0)

http://aoir.org/reports/ethics2.pdf