Sin, Harng Luh (2015) “You're not doing work, you're on Facebook!”: Ethics of encountering the field through social media. Professional Geographer, 67 (4). pp. 676-685.

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Abstract

This article argues that in a time when respondents and researchers can increasingly be connected through platforms of social media, our access to and encounters with the field through social media require additional attention beyond our traditional deliberations with fieldwork. The complex nature (and the uncertainty) in social media portals and the fact that one-to-one conversations are often posted in spaces highly visible and open to be commented on by third parties radically changes our notions of relationships between researcher and respondent, what are public or private spaces, and who is considered vulnerable or not. This article therefore provides a timely and critical discussion of the diverse ways in which one can integrate social media in research and, in doing so, encourage a much-needed debate on how to better understand the dynamics and ethics behind including online domains as one site among translocal, multisite research urged by other scholars.

Item ID:	73847
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	1467-9272
Copyright Information:	© Copyright 2015 by Association of American Geographers.
Date Deposited:	26 Jun 2024 00:54
FoR Codes:	44 HUMAN SOCIETY > 4410 Sociology > 441006 Sociological methodology and research methods @ 60% 47 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 4701 Communication and media studies > 470102 Communication technology and digital media studies @ 40%
SEO Codes:	13 CULTURE AND SOCIETY > 1302 Communication > 130204 The media @ 40% 22 INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION SERVICES > 2203 Information services > 220301 Digital humanities @ 60%
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