Internet Monitoring and Tracking Tools
1. BlogPulse: http:// www.blogpulse.com
2. Spy: http://www.spyappshot.com
3. Monitter: http://monitter.com
4. TweetGrid: http://tweetgrid.com
5. VeryRecent: http://veryrecent.com
6. AskTwiTR: http://AskTwiTR.com
7. ContextMiner: http://contextminer.org
Download SLife from http://www.slifelabs.com.
Borrowed texts for this discussion (for further reading perhaps)
Gauntlett, D., & Horsley, R., Eds. (2004). Web.Studies 2nd Edition. London: Arnold. Visit website: www.newmediastudies.com
Markham, A. N., & Baym, N. K. (2009). Internet Inquiry: conversations about method. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Weinberger, D. (2002). Small pieces loosely joined: a unified theory of the web. Cambridge, MA: Perseus.
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Other recommended readings
Hine, C. (2005). Virtual Methods: Issues in social research on the Internet. Oxford: Berg.
Green, N. (1999). Disrupting the field: Virtual reality technologies and “multi-sited” ethnographic methods. American Behaviorist Scientist, 43(5), 409-421.
Taylor, T. L. (1999). Life in virtual worlds: Plural existence, multimodalities, and other on-line research challenges. American Behaviorist Scientist, 43(3), 436-449.
[on the question of ethics]
[1] Walther, J.B., Research Ethics in Internet-Enabled Research: Human Subjects Issues and Methodological Myopia. Full document available at http://tinyurl.com/cm2cac
[2] AoIR Ethics Guide: http://tinyurl.com/cozalh
