Digital Research in Practice

A variety of sources and links on use and production of digital research and evidence in practice [edit]

 

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 [edit]

Kitchin, R. (2014). Big Data, new epistemologies and paradigm shiftsBig Data & Society1(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 [edit]

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 [edit]

Material and Links from a conference on Policy Modelling in Practice at Surry University

Using Web Analytics [edit]

UK Gov blog on Analytics in Government web service development Inside.gov -Metrics and Analytics

Mixed methods and indicators in service improvement and quality [edit]

Project Duque ebook - Seven ways to improve quality in Hospitals 

Data Journalism [edit]

The Data Journalism Handbook

Crowdsourcing [edit]

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 Frontiers16(3), 417–434. doi:10.1007/s10796-012-9350-4

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Administrative Data

Open Data

Open Gov page lining to resources on the economic impact of Open Data (2014)

Mobile and Online ethnography [edit]

Participatory Policy Making [edit]

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 [edit]

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 AfricaEuropean Journal of Agronomy32(1), 51–58. doi:10.1016/j.eja.2009.05.004