Using Facebook for Qualitative Research: A Brief Primer.

ABSTRACT: As Facebook continues to grow its number of active users, the potential to harness data generated by Facebook users also grows. As much of Facebook users' activity consists of creating (and commenting on) written posts, the potential use of text data for research is enormous. However, conducting a content analysis of text from Facebook users requires adaptation of research methods used for more traditional sources of qualitative data. Furthermore, best practice guidelines to assist researchers interested in conducting qualitative studies using data derived from Facebook are lacking. The purpose of this primer was to identify opportunities, as well as potential pitfalls, of conducting qualitative research with Facebook users and their activity on Facebook and provide potential options to ad

SUBMITTER: Franz D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6711038 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature