Andrew – THATCamp Virginia 2015 http://virginia2015.thatcamp.org Tue, 02 Jun 2015 17:39:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 Connecting qualitative + quantitative in social media research http://virginia2015.thatcamp.org/2015/04/08/connecting-qualitative-quantitative-in-social-media-research/ http://virginia2015.thatcamp.org/2015/04/08/connecting-qualitative-quantitative-in-social-media-research/#comments Wed, 08 Apr 2015 14:21:15 +0000 http://virginia2015.thatcamp.org/?p=368

Three people texting using smartphonesTHATCamp 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
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