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Sociology

2018

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Social media

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Online Communication Settings And The Qualitative Research Process: Acclimating Students And Novice Researchers, Katherine Gregory Jan 2018

Online Communication Settings And The Qualitative Research Process: Acclimating Students And Novice Researchers, Katherine Gregory

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In the last 20 years, qualitative research scholars have begun to interrogate methodological and analytic issues concerning online research settings as both data sources and instruments for digital methods. This article examines the adaptation of parts of a qualitative research curriculum for understanding online communication settings. I propose methodological best practices for researchers and educators that I developed while teaching research methods to undergraduate and graduate students across disciplinary departments and discuss obstacles faced during my own research while gathering data from online sources. This article confronts issues concerning the disembodied aspects of applying what in practice should be rooted …


When The Far-Right Attacks Faculty Online, They Are Attacking Public Higher Education, Jessie Daniels Jan 2018

When The Far-Right Attacks Faculty Online, They Are Attacking Public Higher Education, Jessie Daniels

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The far-right attacks on individual faculty are part of a systematic effort to destroy public higher education. This is an account of when they came for me.