- Though it is a hugely exciting trend, the growth of digital research methods risks becoming a narrow specialism. It is crucial that we don't fall into the digital dualist trap of assuming that 'online' and 'offline' constitute distinct realities, as doing so profoundly misrepresents both the 'real' and the 'virtual'. Rather than see digital research methods as a specialism, we can more usefully construe them as expanding the research repertoires of sociologists to adequately equip us for researching a social world where digital technology is ubiquitous.
Fount this blogpost through Eric Prenen. In this post some good points about e.g. big data not being sociological research as such.
