本书对在线社会研究做了简单易懂的介绍，涵盖了社会科学家关注的关键问题：在线调查、焦点小组、访谈、民族志和实验，以及讨论社交媒体和在线研究伦理的影响。它为新的研究领域提供了一个详细的词汇和书目，书中简短、清晰的案例研究可以让学生在实践中看到研究的例子。

特罗斯特拉·胡利 is the Head of the International Centre for Guidance Studies at the University of Derby,UK; his research interests include careers education and guidance; life and work transition; and new technologies.

Series foreword
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 A brief history of online research methods
3 Dealing with ethical issues in online research Online surveys
5 Online interviews and focus groups
6 Online ethnographies
7 Online experiments
8 Where next for online methods？
Glossary
Bibliography
Index