Social media as a research method
Tarrin Wills
Major developments in information technology the digital society are eventually realised way which research is conducted, particularly field of humanities (DH). Through a brief historical survey, this paper observes that adoption new technologies DH occurs with some delay from wide-scale same other areas society. This allows for prediction about what may be adopted near future DH. In particular, rise social media recent years provides potential model research, as it differs greatly previous its capacity to engage end-users methods. argues techniques by users interact data media, categorisation and semantic tagging, can applied broad range methodologies using similar interfaces those platforms. It then discusses tools developed author facilitating interaction between researchers primary sources Although much more limited than tools, shows forward implementing methods research.
Communication research and practice