Social research in the digital world by Dr Jenna Condie

2025-10-06 22:35:55 UTC

At the start of the of the subject i was confused on the context of the class, i questioned the meaning of social research in the digital world and how it would help us with research.

22194052 — 2025-10-06 22:36:27 UTC

At the very start, some doubted digital research and felt the need for more practice. Some were keen to learn. Some thought digital research was just using digital tools to do social research.

2025-10-06 22:37:58 UTC

- I thought digital research was: Going on Google. Very quantitative. Research made by programming, as most books on digital research is social media mining. Research within and using digital. Irrelevant to my course (criminology background).

- I see digital research as: Qualitative. Not just programming. A lot of data to work with, but getting access to it is harder - sometimes you are allowed little peaks. Actually relevant to criminology.

- One thing I've learned or changed my mind about is: The breadth and scope of digital research and how the mundane can give insight.

2025-10-06 22:38:39 UTC

Now i view social research in the digital world as an effective way of navigating and collecting qualitative data. It can still be difficult to navigate the mass amount of data presented in the digital world

22194052 — 2025-10-06 22:39:09 UTC

At the end of this subject, some feel that they have the digital tools to collect qualitative data. Some felt that the Feminist New Materialism would be helpful for own research interest and disciplinary study.

22194052 — 2025-10-06 22:40:38 UTC

We felt that it was an ongoing journey. We need more practice.

2025-10-06 22:41:40 UTC

Coming in thought it would be quite vague and broad - still quite broad with better defined parameters.

Accessibility of online and digital research, if there's an interest it's possible to do the research

2025-10-06 22:43:25 UTC

The first week was confusing for us. The first workshop taught us how we can revive all our data from digital platforms, which was impressive but also in the same way, all out datas have been stored in the digital world from a long time so its scary to think that it can be accessed by other people as well.

During week 12, we got the idea of ethical use of data collection and ways to follow it.

Learned: The idea of social media as a data collection center was new for us and was great idea and required less ethical thinking as everything was shared by users.