THATCamp happens to fall in the middle of a project I am working on involving the social media app Yik Yak. So far I have had no trouble pulling user posts from the app (I have done similar projects with Twitter and Reddit), but I want to supplement this textual data with ethnographic interviews with users, similar to danah boyd’s social media research. This is a new approach for me, and so I am interested in discussing, collaborating, and learning more about this type of research at THATCamp. I am open to discuss any aspect of social media research projects, including:

• Using APIs to access social media data
• Tools for quantitative analysis of textual social media data
• Recruiting participants from online communities for in-person interviews
• Interview strategies for contextualizing social media data
• Grounded theory approaches to coding and analysis
• Ethical issues in online community research
• Social media research projects in the classroom