I have used Facebook groups much less ambitiously than you have, creating groups to study social media and politics, recruiting friends and asking them to recruit. Certainly that technique could work for high school students. I have also posted information about the survey as a note and asked people to share which has also worked. On Jun 30, 2011, at 5:00 PM, <air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
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1. FB groups as method & parental consent (Rena Bivens) 2. Re: FB groups as method & parental consent (Montathar Faraon) 3. Re: FB groups as method & parental consent (Jayne M. Sellick)
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Message: 1 Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:29:31 -0400 From: Rena Bivens <rena.bivens@gmail.com> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] FB groups as method & parental consent Message-ID: <BANLkTimewh-zDyrs4RByUjb_vX3bM+_MWA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Hi All,
I'm writing about two issues: (1) using Facebook groups as part of a research method (2) obtaining parental consent
Has anyone on the list used Facebook groups within their methodological strategy? I plan to create a Facebook group for the first stage of a project I am conducting on social media and gender-based violence - particularly gender socialization by teenagers on Facebook. The idea is to recruit students from various high schools across Canada to join the FB group and then engage participants in discussions while also sharing videos, images and news articles. Within a couple of months the intention would be to gain informed consent to 'friend' a number of the participants and preform a digital ethnography of their profile pages (including info, wall, photos). Online focus groups would also be incorporated during fieldwork and as a final stage face-to-face focus groups will take place to validate or reconfigure preliminary conclusions.
I'm also hoping to get ethical approval to include under-16s (e.g. 13-18 year olds) but I'm trying to be creative as to how I can obtain parental consent since participants will come from a wide geographical region. Any ideas apart from a paper letter that would be mailed or faxed would be greatly appreciated!
Many thanks in advance and feel free to ask for more information.
Rena
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Message: 2 Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:50:03 +0200 From: Montathar Faraon <montathar.faraon@gmail.com> To: Rena Bivens <rena.bivens@gmail.com> Cc: Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] FB groups as method & parental consent Message-ID: <BANLkTi=Nvq4S+knr6KvR2_EoMBeZ-t25GA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Hello Rena,
Although I haven't dealt specifically with Facebook groups I have come across articles that deal with this issue. I recommend that you take a look at the following articles:
Valenzuela, S., Park, N., & Kee, F. K. (2009). Is there social capital in a social network site?: Facebook use and college students' life satisfaction, trust, and participation. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 14, 875-901.
Juliana, F., Magda, G., Kevin, W. B., & Jeffrey, C. N. (2010). The writing on the wall: A content analysis of college students' Facebook groups for the 2008 presidential election. Mass Communication and Society, 13, 653-675.
Kind regards, Montathar
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Rena Bivens <rena.bivens@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi All,
I'm writing about two issues: (1) using Facebook groups as part of a research method (2) obtaining parental consent
Has anyone on the list used Facebook groups within their methodological strategy? I plan to create a Facebook group for the first stage of a project I am conducting on social media and gender-based violence - particularly gender socialization by teenagers on Facebook. The idea is to recruit students from various high schools across Canada to join the FB group and then engage participants in discussions while also sharing videos, images and news articles. Within a couple of months the intention would be to gain informed consent to 'friend' a number of the participants and preform a digital ethnography of their profile pages (including info, wall, photos). Online focus groups would also be incorporated during fieldwork and as a final stage face-to-face focus groups will take place to validate or reconfigure preliminary conclusions.
I'm also hoping to get ethical approval to include under-16s (e.g. 13-18 year olds) but I'm trying to be creative as to how I can obtain parental consent since participants will come from a wide geographical region. Any ideas apart from a paper letter that would be mailed or faxed would be greatly appreciated!
Many thanks in advance and feel free to ask for more information.
Rena
--
Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies
Dunton Tower, Room 1509
1125 Colonel By Drive, Carleton University, Ottawa ON K1S 5B6
Office: (613) 520-2600 ext. 2904
Cell: (613) 618-4602
@renabivens <http://twitter.com/renabivens>
renabivens.com
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Message: 3 Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:08:42 +0100 From: "Jayne M. Sellick" <J.M.Sellick@durham.ac.uk> To: "air-l@listserv.aoir.org" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] FB groups as method & parental consent Message-ID: <3EBADB1DDEFEA244A45F569963F478B312ADC833D4@MAILWEST> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Hi Rena,
I'm just starting to connect with online users as part of my participatory project with different groups of disabled people. I spent quite a lot of time deciding how to do this and settled on my own blog in the end. However, with reference to facebook I'm planning on using it, alongside Twitter to gain further interest for the project and get people to the blog, rather than using it as a space to collect and upload content and/or ideas from potential participants. i.e. they could like the page or join the group but then use a different and private online space to get involved.
I would say that whilst Facebook is a well connected platform (for many non-disabled groups) with a range of tools to use, such as uploading photographs and making comments; it's very difficult to ensure any sort of privacy or anonymity. I think that the latter may be something that parent's (and equally students) could be concerned about as the topic is potentially sensitive and users may wish to be reassured that their input remains confidential. Facebook don't place privacy very highly on their agenda!
It terms of parental consent, you could set up a very simple wordpress blog where parents and students could register their interest and where you could set up a Terms of Use form (a plugin) that outlines the need for parental consent. By registering and agreeing to the terms of use you are asking parents and students to agree with these (in line with your ethics) and will also have an electronic copy of when they agreed to these terms.
The online focus group sounds great and I'd love to hear more about it, as and when you get to it. you could also update the (potential) blog with info about/for the online focus groups.
Hope this helps!
Best wishes,
Jayne Sellick
PhD Researcher Geographies of Disability and Health Department of Geography Science Laboratories Durham University South Road Durham DH1 3LE
Blog: http://www.disidentities.com
Tel: +44 (0) 7757 838 741
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/J_Sellick
Web: www.durham.ac.uk/geography ________________________________________ From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Rena Bivens [rena.bivens@gmail.com] Sent: 30 June 2011 18:29 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] FB groups as method & parental consent
Hi All,
I'm writing about two issues: (1) using Facebook groups as part of a research method (2) obtaining parental consent
Has anyone on the list used Facebook groups within their methodological strategy? I plan to create a Facebook group for the first stage of a project I am conducting on social media and gender-based violence - particularly gender socialization by teenagers on Facebook. The idea is to recruit students from various high schools across Canada to join the FB group and then engage participants in discussions while also sharing videos, images and news articles. Within a couple of months the intention would be to gain informed consent to 'friend' a number of the participants and preform a digital ethnography of their profile pages (including info, wall, photos). Online focus groups would also be incorporated during fieldwork and as a final stage face-to-face focus groups will take place to validate or reconfigure preliminary conclusions.
I'm also hoping to get ethical approval to include under-16s (e.g. 13-18 year olds) but I'm trying to be creative as to how I can obtain parental consent since participants will come from a wide geographical region. Any ideas apart from a paper letter that would be mailed or faxed would be greatly appreciated!
Many thanks in advance and feel free to ask for more information.
Rena
--
Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies
Dunton Tower, Room 1509
1125 Colonel By Drive, Carleton University, Ottawa ON K1S 5B6
Office: (613) 520-2600 ext. 2904
Cell: (613) 618-4602
@renabivens <http://twitter.com/renabivens>
renabivens.com
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