I am responding with a follow-up question to Ana Maria Quiros, with plans to collect "to collect photo metadata and am specifically interested in the tags, descriptions, number of likes, and album names of individual photos." And I will pose it generally to the list: I am interested in your view of ethical issues and approaches for such a study. Are you obtaining consent from the people who posted the images? How will you protect anonymity if you plan to use metadata? Will you have any other interactions with them, for example an interview to ask about the motivations behind posting the image? Or their explanation of what the image represents? Just curious.... You might find this study of interest <http://www.natcen.ac.uk/media/282288/p0639-research-using-social-media-report-final-190214.pdf>-- about users' perspectives on the use of their posts (including images) as data. Regards, Janet *Janet Salmons Ph.D.* *Capella University School of Business and Vision2Lead* Site- http://www.vision2lead.com Follow Twitter @einterview New from Sage!* Qualitative Online Interviews* PO Box 943 Boulder, CO 80306-0943 jsalmons@vision2lead.com