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Prospects for research methods in the coming decade

Explore the potential impact of the digital revolution, digital footprints, and born-digital data on research methods. Discover how advanced ICTs, constant innovation, and transformative technologies have shaped societies and transformed social research. Consider the challenges around technical barriers, business models, social implications, and the digital divide.

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Prospects for research methods in the coming decade

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  1. Prospects for research methods in the coming decade Peter Halfpenny University of Manchester Research Methods Festival 2010

  2. The driver of change • The digital revolution • digital footprints • ‘born digital’ data • digitisation of the past • digital natives • digital everything

  3. pre-digital ‘computers’ adding machines analogue radio vinyl records landline phones photographs post fax digital computers Internet mobile phones digital tv music players streaming p2p m2m The digital age

  4. Chips with everything • Advanced ICTs will transform the world even more than they have done to date • Networks + wireless  ubiquitous • any where • any time • any device • ICTs are embedded in our lives • Constant innovation

  5. Impossible! 1940s - computers 1960s - ARPANET 1970s - email 1980s - PCs - JANET 1990s - WWW - public ISPs - smart phones 2000s - peer to peer - dot com boom - and bust - broadband - WiFi 2004 - Web 2.0 - Facebook 2008 - iPhone apps Prediction for ten years hence

  6. Some tentative pointers - 1 • digital data deluge • convergence • devices cf mobile ‘phones’ • data integration • data access • authorisation

  7. Some tentative pointers - 2 • sensors • mobile ‘phones’ • wearable computers • Radio Frequency Devices • the cloud • pay-as-you go computing power

  8. Transformative potential • Societies transformed • Social research transformed • huge samples • real-time • active participation • Scientific authority transformed • multidisciplinary • collaborative • distributed

  9. Barriers • Technical • business models • sustainability • Social • privacy • confidentiality • real-world and online identities • the digital divide

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