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The vision that motivated the e-Science programme in the UK and analogous programmes elsewhere was that grid computing-based infrastructure comprising computer power, big data and collaborative teams would transform science. Over the past decade this has morphed into a much more complex e-Infrastructure made up of a plethora of only loosely related tools and services taken up to different degrees and in different combinations and with different levels of enthusiasm even within the same field, allied with rapidly accreting digital data of new types and old. The e-Research facilitated by this maelstrom is transforming social science research, but in unpredictable ways, with many socio-technical barriers to be overcome before its full potential is realized. The aim of this book is to whet the appetite of social researchers to encourage them to explore how innovations in digital research methods might enable their research to advance in ways not possible otherwise.