Authors : Smita R. Deshmukh
Page Nos : 50-52
Description :
The Information Revolution, and the Information Age that it engender, is being defined by an on-going process of economic, social and political globalization. Social networking tools have captured the imagination of youth and researchers. Researchers today prefer to use internet for surfing the World Wide Web to access relevant material and data including e-journal and e-book. As more and more ICT tools being developed and used in social science research, it is a good idea to reflect how ICT had social science research as a whole as there is a lacking of such study. This study is based on participative observation approach in which ICT had effects on social science research in the following three ICT application areas: a) Pre-data analysis, b) Data analysis, and c) Post-data analysis.
Keywords: globalization, Information and Communication Technology, Social Science Research, ICT tools, research application.
