Machine generated contents note: 1.What, Why, and How? -- What do you want to study? -- Why do you want to study that? -- How to study what you want to study -- Exercise 1 What do I want to know and why? -- Further reading -- 2.Reviewing Literature -- Doing the search -- Close reading -- Structuring the review -- Referencing -- Exercise 2 Explication, explanation, exploration -- Further reading -- 3.Designing the Study -- Cases, windows, sites -- Grounded theory approach -- Exercise 3 Designing the study -- Further reading -- 4.Interviewing -- What is an interview? -- The interview as a site of narrative re-production -- Interviews as observation opportunities -- What questions do the interviews answer? -- Transcription and its problems -- Exercise 4 An interview -- Further reading -- 5.Observation on the Move: Shadowing -- Varieties of observation -- A brief history of shadowing -- The uses of shadowing -- The shadowy side of shadowing -- Exercise 5 Shadowing --

Contents note continued: Further reading -- 6.Following Objects and Quasi-objects -- Rediscovering things: Actor-Network Theory -- The travels of the soil from the Amazon forest -- Following the air and the water in Stockholm -- Shadowing software -- Why follow the objects? -- Exercise 6 Following the objects -- Further reading -- 7.Tools for Fieldwork -- Diary studies in the digital era -- The eye of the camera -- Exercise 7 Research tools -- Further reading -- 8.Surviving in the Field: Practicalities and Personalities -- Access -- Positioning in the field -- Fieldwork is intersected -- Exercise 8 Surviving in the field -- Further reading -- 9.Excursions into Cyberspace -- Fieldwork via cyberspace -- Fieldwork about cyberspace -- Fieldwork in cyberspace -- Exercise 9 Cyberstudies -- Further reading -- 10.Analyzing Field Material -- Grounded theory revisited -- Content analysis -- Discourse analysis -- Conversation analysis -- Visual analyses --

Contents note continued: Exercise 10 Analyzing field material -- Further reading -- 11.Text Analyses -- Rhetorical analysis -- Structuralism: The origins -- Structuralism in psychology -- Inspiration from semiology: Actor-Network Theory -- Poststructuralism -- Exercise 11 Text analyses -- Further reading -- 12.Writing it Up -- How fieldwork is written -- A structure of a thesis -- Description, or how to re-present the world -- Emplotment, or how to theorize -- First story: A case -- Second story: A praxiography -- Third story: An ethnography -- Exercise 12 The craft of writing -- Further reading -- 13.Good Academic Writing: Beauty and Credibility -- Blurring genres -- Traditional criteria of goodness -- Arguments that have worked -- Style -- Social sciences as a blurred genre -- Exercise 13 The art of writing -- Further reading -- 14.When to Stop, and What to do Next -- On foxes and hedgehogs -- When to stop? -- Where to go next? -- Exercise 14 When to stop -- Further reading.