Reflections on University of Westminster's Social Media Conference
Natalie Jago is a researcher at NatCen Social Research and primarily conducts mixed method research in the area of crime and justice. You can contact her at natalie.jago@natcen.ac.uk . Previously you may have read about NatCen’s research trainees hard at work on qualitative research exploring the public’s views of social media research. We are now venturing into the report writing stage and are keen to promote and support good practice in social media research within the research community. What better way to do this than by presenting our work at the University of Westminster’s recent Social Media conference . This international event brought together researchers from all over the world to present an assortment of stimulating and thought-provoking talks. Fellow NatCen-er Laura Nass and I presented the results of further analysis then attended other presentations related to social media. Here’s what you may have missed from the day. Exploring Facebook with university students was one...