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Live tweeting and building the digital archive; #NFQLR— who and what is it for?

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posted on 2023-06-09, 16:46 authored by Ester Mcgeeney
This paper examines the temporal and ethical affordances of commercial social media platforms, such as Twitter, as tools for engaging in social research and knowledge exchange. Drawing on activity that took place during the New Frontiers in Qualitative Longitudinal Research seminar series, the article reports on using Twitter and other social media platforms to document, share and archive ‘data’ from a series of research events. It also experiments with new modes of research writing, using fragments of ‘data’ from Twitter to distil research knowledge and ideas, whilst also capturing the pace and form of this live method of social documentation and knowledge exchange. Bringing together conversations within digital sociology about how to ‘do’ time in digital research, with methodological debates among qualitative longitudinal researchers about how to research social and biographical continuity and change, the paper argues that the presentist focus in digital research is far from inevitable. Attending to time in digital media demands that we are alert to questions of authorship, audience and co-production, recognizing the labour of research and the provenance of research knowledge, ‘data’ and ideas.

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Publication status

  • Published

Journal

International Journal of Social Research Methodology

ISSN

1364-5579

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Issue

3

Volume

18

Page range

307-319

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  • Social Work and Social Care Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2019-02-06

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