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From the Diary to the Blog: Using Blogs in Social Research
Citation
Hookway, N, From the Diary to the Blog: Using Blogs in Social Research, SAGE Research Methods: Doing Research Online, SAGE Publications Ltd, K Figiel (ed), United Kingdom ISBN 9781529611304 (2022) [Research Book Chapter]
DOI: doi:10.4135/9781529611304
Abstract
Blogs were the forerunner of the ‘social’ web or Web 2.0. This guide
introduces blogs as multimedia ‘documents of life’ that offer opportunities for
researchers interested in accessing first-person accounts of everyday life. Blogs are
located within a tradition of personal document research, sketching the differences
between diary and blog research. The guide outlines the key benefits of blog
research and reviews key steps for collecting and analysing blog data. Drawing upon
Hookway (2017) and Snee’s (2013) everyday morality and gap-year travel projects,
the guide outlines key practical and methodological advice for doing blog research.
The guide finishes with a discussion of the ethics of blog research highlighting the
need for a contextual approach that acknowledges the complexity of privacy in digital
spaces.
Item Details
Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
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Keywords: | digital research methods, online research methods, human documents research |
Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Sociology |
Research Field: | Sociological methodology and research methods |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in human society |
UTAS Author: | Hookway, N (Dr Nicholas Hookway) |
ID Code: | 150334 |
Year Published: | 2022 |
Deposited By: | Office of the School of Social Sciences |
Deposited On: | 2022-06-08 |
Last Modified: | 2023-03-06 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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