Picking a social media platform for research - our first Twitter chat of 2015
Missed out? Here’s the twitter feed from #NSMNSS chat on how to pick a social media platform in research See below for the twitter feed from our first tweetchat of 2015 (Tues 3rd Feb) all about how to pick a social media platform in research. Scroll to the bottom and work your way up to follow the conversation in the order it occurred. A summary of the 7 questions posed to those taking part is included below: Q1: What is a social media platform? #NSMNSS Q2: Which social media platforms are you using, or would like to use, in research? #NSMNSS Q3: Which platforms are you using to get data? #NSMNSS Q4: Do certain platforms lend themselves more to quantitative or qualitative approaches? 'Big data', 'small data'? #NSMNSS Q5: (from @jess1ecat) What difference is there in researching public data like Twitter stream cf. to group wikis & forums? #NSMNSS Q6: How do you handle data protection & ethical issues on different platforms? #NSMNSS Q7 How do we attend t...