Using Facebook as a research site and research tool

STIRLING, Eve (2014). Using Facebook as a research site and research tool. In: Sage research methods cases. Sage.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/978144627305013510242
Link to published version:: https://doi.org/10.4135/978144627305013510242

Abstract

This project explored the everyday use of the social network site Facebook by first-year undergraduate students in their transition to university. I did this by using a longitudinal study over one academic year. A connective ethnographic approach was used, which involved being with and observing the student participants on Facebook and face-to-face, within the university environment. Participant observation, field notes, screenshots of Facebook, questionnaires, interviews and focus groups were the main methods of data collection. Data were analysed using content analysis and based upon themes from literature and emerging themes from the data. The findings were presented as a set of six ethnographic stories, which were written based on data from the six main ethnographic participants. The project explored Facebook as a research field site and as a research tool.

Item Type: Book Section
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: Cultural Communication and Computing Research Institute > Art and Design Research Centre
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.4135/978144627305013510242
Depositing User: Eve Stirling
Date Deposited: 30 Mar 2015 09:42
Last Modified: 18 Mar 2021 19:00
URI: https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/9528

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