Social media and Internet data offer rich opportunities and vexing challenges for
sociocultural research. Explaining and extending prior approaches, Netnography …

Internet-based research methods can include; on-line surveys, web page content analysis,
videoconferencing for on-line focus groups and/or interviews, analysis of 'e'conversations …

For many post-graduate students undertaking a research project for the first time is a
daunting prospect. Gaining the knowledge and skills needed to do research typically has to …

The rapid growth in the widespread acceptance and usage of the Internet and the ease of
creating online communities have brought advantages in terms of swift access to information …

Increasingly, psychologists are extending their research to include online methods of data
collection. Psychologists' use of qualitative data obtained or generated online for research …

The term 'big data'has recently emerged to describe a range of technological and
commercial trends enabling the storage and analysis of huge amounts of customer data …

This paper reports the findings from an in-depth, exploratory research project designed to
understand how consumers create, use and behave in response to content on consumer …

Using user-generated content from open-access platforms such as Reddit for research
raises ethical questions and challenges. Research projects involving publicly available data …

contemporary guide to data collection, a central pursuit of sociolinguistic research.
Contributions by veteran as well as up-and-coming sociolinguists cover methods of data …

Ethical considerations are increasingly important because new online techniques of
research such as online ethnography often have novel ethical challenges. Our research …