Add to ORKGIS research on social media (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, blogs) has so far used user surveys or quantitative content analysis (QuantCA) research methods almost exclusively. There is considerable potential for social informatics research to use qualitative content analysis (QualCA) to explore social media discourse and its appropriation by people “in situ”. This paper presents the position that QualCA offers researchers the flexibility to identify emergent research questions and units of analysis which they may not have preconceived. This is likely to be important for IS research because of the infancy and evolving nature of social media discourse. The paper puts forward suggestions on how the QualCA research method can be adapted fo...
The emergence of social media is enabling researchers to consider new data collection and triangulat...
: Social media play an increasingly important role as both a means of communication and a source of ...
Qualitative research relies primarily on qualitative data in form of texts. The method of content an...
IS research on social media (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, blogs) has so far used user surveys or quantita...
The emergence of social media on the Internet provides an opportunity for information systems resear...
Content Analysis, which is a part of qualitative analysis, has mainly been studied in scientific art...
Society has become thoroughly mediatised. Every aspect and part of society from the economy, politic...
To qualitative researchers, social media offers a novel opportunity to harvest a massive and diverse...
In the digital era, social media has become a space for the socialization and interaction of citizen...
The wide range of approaches to data analysis in qualitative research can seem daunting even for exp...
As social media platforms have become ubiquitous in everyday life, calls for mixed-methods approache...
This How-to Guide describes what qualitative media analysis is, when and how it can be used to resea...
Because of the central role mass media and, more recently, social media play in contemporary literat...
The dataset centres on a qualitative content analysis – as put forward by Mayring (2014) – of media ...
There are numerous approaches to qualitative research, and discourse analysis is one of them. The st...
The emergence of social media is enabling researchers to consider new data collection and triangulat...
: Social media play an increasingly important role as both a means of communication and a source of ...
Qualitative research relies primarily on qualitative data in form of texts. The method of content an...
IS research on social media (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, blogs) has so far used user surveys or quantita...
The emergence of social media on the Internet provides an opportunity for information systems resear...
Content Analysis, which is a part of qualitative analysis, has mainly been studied in scientific art...
Society has become thoroughly mediatised. Every aspect and part of society from the economy, politic...
To qualitative researchers, social media offers a novel opportunity to harvest a massive and diverse...
In the digital era, social media has become a space for the socialization and interaction of citizen...
The wide range of approaches to data analysis in qualitative research can seem daunting even for exp...
As social media platforms have become ubiquitous in everyday life, calls for mixed-methods approache...
This How-to Guide describes what qualitative media analysis is, when and how it can be used to resea...
Because of the central role mass media and, more recently, social media play in contemporary literat...
The dataset centres on a qualitative content analysis – as put forward by Mayring (2014) – of media ...
There are numerous approaches to qualitative research, and discourse analysis is one of them. The st...
The emergence of social media is enabling researchers to consider new data collection and triangulat...
: Social media play an increasingly important role as both a means of communication and a source of ...
Qualitative research relies primarily on qualitative data in form of texts. The method of content an...