The Sage handbook of digital technology research / edited by Sara Price; Carey Jewitt and Barry Brown

Providing readers with an expansive and international overview, this handbook is the ideal resource on this fast-paced and ubiquitous field.

Notes on the editors and contributors -- Part 1 : An introduction to the field of contemporary digital technology research -- The historical context / Paul Ceruzzi -- The field of digital technology research / Charles Crook -- Part 2 : New digital technologies : key characteristics and consideration -- Context, location, and mobility : a human story / Matt Jones -- Online information : access, search and exchange / Gary Hsieh and Nicolas Friederici -- Social media, human connectivity and psychological well-being / Sonja Baumer -- Engaging practices : doing personalized media / Heather A. Horst and Larissa Hjorth -- Ethics, phenomenology and ontology / Anna Kouppanou and Paul Standish -- Part 3 : Research perspectives for digital technologies : theory and analysis -- Critical theory of technology / Sara M. Grimes and Andrew Feenberg -- Critical and cultural approaches to HCI / Jeffrey Bardzell -- Theories of embodiment in HCI / Paul Marshall and Eva Hornecker -- Space and place in digital technology research : a theoretical overview / Luigina Ciolfi -- Affect and experiential approaches / Kristina Hook -- Ethnographic approaches to digital research / Barry Brown -- The mediational perspective on digital technology : understanding the interplay between technology, mind and action / Victor Kaptelinin -- Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis : empirical approaches to the study of digital technology in action / Robert J. Moore -- Behavioral trace data for analyzing online communities / Cliff Lampe -- Multimodal methods for researching digital technologies / Carey Jewitt -- Projection, place, and point-of-view in research through design / Steven Dow, Wendy Ju and Wendy Mackay -- Design research : observing critical design / Laural Swan and Kirsten Boehner -- Part 4 : Environments and tools for digital research -- Tangibles : technologies and interaction for learning / Sara Price -- Material computing : integrating technology into the material world / Leah Buechley -- Haptic interfaces / Eve Hoggan -- Contrasting lab-based and in-the-wild studies for evaluating multi-user technologies / Yvonne Roger, Nicola Yuill and Paul Marshall -- Ubiquitous virtual reality environments / Yoosoo Oh and Woontack Woo -- Location-based environments and technologies / Ty Hollett and Kevin M. Leander -- Mobile learning in the majority world : a critique of the GSMA's position / Niall Winters -- Online and internet-based technologies : gaming / Catherine Beavis -- Online and internet-based technologies : social networking / Kirsty Young -- Learner modelled environments / Kaska Porayska-Pomsta and Sara Bernardini -- The interplay between research and industry : HCI and grounded innovation / Lars Erik Holmquist -- Afterword: looking to the future / Sara Price, Carey Jewitt and Barry Brown -- Index.