Internet Research Methods

Hewson, Claire; Yule, Peter; Laurent, Dianna; Vogel, Carl

doi:10.4135/9781849209298

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“…Anonymity increases the potential for intentional or unintentional deception (Glaser et al 2002: 198) and for identity manipulation (Hewson et al 2003, 115, Nosek et al 2002.…”

Section: Design and Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Health, ethics and environment: A qualitative study of vegetarian motivations

2008

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This qualitative study explored the motivations of vegetarians by means of online ethnographic research with participants in an international message board. The researcher participated in discussions on the board, gathered responses to questions from 33 participants, and conducted follow-up e-mail interviews with eighteen of these participants. Respondents were predominantly from the US, Canada and the UK. Seventy per cent were female, and ages ranged from 14 to 53, with a median of 26 years. Data were analysed using a thematic approach. While this research found that health and the ethical treatment of animals were the main motivators for participants' vegetarianism, participants reported a range of commitments to environmental concerns, although in only one case was environmentalism a primary motivator for becoming a vegetarian. The data indicates that vegetarians may follow a trajectory, in which initial motivations are augmented over time by other reasons for sustaining or further restricting their diet.

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“…Anonymity increases the potential for intentional or unintentional deception (Glaser et al 2002: 198) and for identity manipulation (Hewson et al 2003, 115, Nosek et al 2002.…”

Section: Design and Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Health, ethics and environment: A qualitative study of vegetarian motivations

2008

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“…These concerns centre on the public versus private nature of online communications (Sharf, 1999;Hewson et al, 2003;Hine, 2005). Anderson and Kanuka (2003, p. 68) argue that while it might be possible to argue that publicly accessible newsgroups, mail lists, chat rooms or virtual reality environments are public spaces, this interpretation is not straightforward.…”

Section: Sex Lies and The Ethics Of Internet Researchmentioning

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It's about Bang for Your Buck, Bro: Singaporean Men's Online Conversations about Sex in Batam, Indonesia

Williams

Lyons

Ford

2008

Asian Studies Review

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Studies of sexuality and the Internet have focused on how the web provides individuals with opportunities to perform new sexual acts and establish new sexual communities, thus challenging heteronormative models of sexuality. But Internet bulletin boards and chat rooms can also provide a medium for the recuperation and performance of forms of hetereosexual masculinity that have become marginalised and rendered unacceptable in the offline world. Faced with the challenges of the globalised economy and changing expectations about gender roles in the public and private spheres, some men seek to reclaim power over women through the performance of a hyper-sexualised subjectivity in a homosocial online space. The Sammyboy Times -a commercial sex information site aimed primarily at a Singaporean male audience -is such a space. In its members-only forum about sex tourism to the Indonesian island of Batam, Singaporean men escape from the demands of a heteronormative expression of masculinity predicated on the reproduction of the Singaporean state. But Sammyboy provides much more than a space for the expression of an alternative, transgressive masculinity; it also allows the men to produce a localised form of brotherhood in which the men share information and look out for each other's welfare in their encounters with Batam's sex workers. While descriptions of sex acts are ever present in the forum's 'international field reports', we argue that they are a vehicle for fraternity rather than eroticism or competitiveness.

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“…We conducted the interview via email, with a set of standard questions intended to elicit open-ended reply and to invite further interaction, to which participants could respond asynchronously, at their leisure. We reasoned that this would ensure the maximal amount of reflection and also reduce demand characteristics [12], along with other practical qualities of internet mediated research [13].…”

Section: Research Philosophy Design and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender Bias on Tinder: Transforming an Exploratory Qualitative Survey into Statistical Data for Contextualized Interpretation

Lopes

Vogel

2017

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

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Abstract. Tinder is an online dating application that enables a humanhuman interaction. However, the ease of connection brings to light some concerns about possible harmful gender dynamics, which can enhance bias within technological developments and threaten women empowerment. This research aims to investigate whether the application meets women's expectations, whether there is gender bias and sexist behavior during the users' experiences and what is the relation between the findings to the graphical user interface. The research approaches to a mixed method design in order to achieve its goals.

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Internet Research Methods

Cited by 169 publications

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Health, ethics and environment: A qualitative study of vegetarian motivations

Health, ethics and environment: A qualitative study of vegetarian motivations

It's about Bang for Your Buck, Bro: Singaporean Men's Online Conversations about Sex in Batam, Indonesia

Gender Bias on Tinder: Transforming an Exploratory Qualitative Survey into Statistical Data for Contextualized Interpretation

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