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The Web as a Platform for e-Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

The Web as a Platform for e-Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

Pablo Garaizar, Miguel A. Vadillo, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Helena Matute
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 28
ISBN13: 9781466601253|ISBN10: 1466601256|EISBN13: 9781466601260
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0125-3.ch002
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Garaizar, Pablo, et al. "The Web as a Platform for e-Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences." Collaborative and Distributed E-Research: Innovations in Technologies, Strategies and Applications, edited by Angel A. Juan, et al., IGI Global, 2012, pp. 34-61. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0125-3.ch002

APA

Garaizar, P., Vadillo, M. A., López-de-Ipiña, D., & Matute, H. (2012). The Web as a Platform for e-Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. In A. Juan, T. Daradoumis, M. Roca, S. Grasman, & J. Faulin (Eds.), Collaborative and Distributed E-Research: Innovations in Technologies, Strategies and Applications (pp. 34-61). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0125-3.ch002

Chicago

Garaizar, Pablo, et al. "The Web as a Platform for e-Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences." In Collaborative and Distributed E-Research: Innovations in Technologies, Strategies and Applications, edited by Angel A. Juan, et al., 34-61. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0125-3.ch002

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Abstract

As a consequence of the joint and rapid evolution of the Internet and the social and behavioral sciences during the last two decades, the Internet is becoming one of the best possible psychological laboratories and is being used by scientists from all over the world in more and more productive and interesting ways each day. This chapter uses examples from psychology, while reviewing the most recent Web paradigms, like the Social Web, Semantic Web, and Cloud Computing, and their implications for e-research in the social and behavioral sciences, and tries to anticipate the possibilities offered to social science researchers by future Internet proposals. The most recent advancements in the architecture of the Web, both from the server and the client-side, are also discussed in relation to behavioral e-research. Given the increasing social nature of the Web, both social scientists and engineers should benefit from knowledge on how the most recent and future Web developments can provide new and creative ways to advance the understanding of the human nature.

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