Digital Research in Practice
A variety of sources and links on use and production of digital research and evidence in practice
Digital Data in Practice - paper from the Social Life of Methods Project
Evelyn Ruppert, Penny Harvey, Celia Lury, Adrian Mackenzie, Ruth McNally, Stephanie Alice Baker, Yannis Kallianos, Camilla Lewis (2015), 'Socialising Big Data: From concept to practice', CRESC Working Paper 138. Asks questions about use of 'big data' in three areas of practice.
Smart Cities
Kitchin, R. (2014). Big Data, new epistemologies and paradigm shifts. Big Data & Society, 1(1), 2053951714528481. doi:10.1177/2053951714528481
SHANNON MATTERN (2014) Interfacing Urban Intelligence, Places
The EU EIP on Smart Cities
The FP7 e-Policy Project "The project focuses on regional planning and promotes the assessment of economic, social and environmental impacts during the policy making process (at both the global and individual levels). For the individual aspects, e-POLICY aims at deriving social impacts through opinion mining on e-participation data extracted from the web. To aid policy makers, citizens and stakeholders, e-POLICY heavily relies on visualization tools providing an easy access to data, impacts and political choices."
Social Media
Daas and Puts (2014) Social Media Sentiment and Consumer Confidence, ECN
ECB paper on using social media as a measure of consumer confidence
Marchand, A., Hennig-Thurau, T., & Wiertz, C. (2016). Not all digital word of mouth is created equal: Understanding the respective impact of consumer reviews and microblogs on new product success. International Journal of Research in Marketing. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijresmar.2016.09.003
Policy Modelling
Material and Links from a conference on Policy Modelling in Practice at Surry University
Using Web Analytics
UK Gov blog on Analytics in Government web service development Inside.gov -Metrics and Analytics
Mixed methods and indicators in service improvement and quality
Project Duque ebook - Seven ways to improve quality in Hospitals
Data Journalism
Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing in Research - Cambridge university webpage
P Whitla (2009) Crowdsourcing and its application in marketing activities, Contemporary Management Research, 2009 - cmr-journal.org
Zhao, Y., & Zhu, Q. (2012). Evaluation on crowdsourcing research: Current status and future direction. Information Systems Frontiers, 16(3), 417–434. doi:10.1007/s10796-012-9350-4
Administrative Data
Open Data
Open Gov page lining to resources on the economic impact of Open Data (2014)
Mobile and Online ethnography
Participatory Policy Making
Escobar, O. (2011) Public Dialogue and Deliberation. A communication perspective for public engagement practitioners, Edinburgh: Edinburgh Beltane -UK Beacons for Public Engagement. (REPRINTED IN APRIL 2012)
Games and Simulations in participative research
Whitbread, A. M., Robertson, M. J., Carberry, P. S., & Dimes, J. P. (2010). How farming systems simulation can aid the development of more sustainable smallholder farming systems in southern Africa. European Journal of Agronomy, 32(1), 51–58. doi:10.1016/j.eja.2009.05.004