Dear all, I am in the middle of my phd research/fielwork on media practices of young Muslims in Germany and the Netherlands who are inspired by Salafism. My research involves among other things participant observation in chat rooms and also Internet forums. I have done quite some (offline) interviews with both, men and women. Some men that I know from Islamic chat rooms would like to participate in interviews. However, their understanding of Islam does not allow them to talk to women that are not related to them by family. They offered to talk to me via msn (or paltalk). I would like to prepare myself and I am looking for some literature expanding on the methodology and ethcial questions of online interviews (via synchronous chat). I would be happy about any recommendation from the list. Thanks a lot in advance! Best, Carmen Carmen Becker ----------------------------------------- research.carmenbecker.net Radboud University Nijmegen Postbus 9103 6500 HD NIJMEGEN The Netherlands
Dear Carmen, In my experience the use of online interviews is perfectly suited to deal with sensitive relationships with research participants. In a study of an online community of right-wing extremists I have combined content analysis of a forum with synchronous online interviews because participants were too concerned about their privacy to meet offline. This worked out very well, and the interviews yielded rich data that are no less useful than data from face-to-face interviews. If you are interested in a modest reflection on some ethical and practical aspects of these methods, you might like to read the section on data and methods in De Koster, Willem and Dick Houtman (2008) '" Stormfront is Like a Second Home to Me": On Virtual Community Formation by Right-Wing Extremists.' /Information, Communication and Society/ 11(8), 1153-1175 I hope this might provide a starting point to gain further insight. Good luck with your research, which sounds exciting! Kind regards, Willem -- Willem de Koster Department of Sociology Faculty of Social Sciences Erasmus University Rotterdam P.O. Box 1738 3000 DR Rotterdam The Netherlands tel: +31 10 408 2390 fax: +31 10 408 9098 e-mail: dekoster@fsw.eur.nl homepage: http://www.willemdekoster.nl Becker, C. (Carmen) schreef:
Dear all,
I am in the middle of my phd research/fielwork on media practices of young Muslims in Germany and the Netherlands who are inspired by Salafism. My research involves among other things participant observation in chat rooms and also Internet forums. I have done quite some (offline) interviews with both, men and women. Some men that I know from Islamic chat rooms would like to participate in interviews. However, their understanding of Islam does not allow them to talk to women that are not related to them by family. They offered to talk to me via msn (or paltalk).
I would like to prepare myself and I am looking for some literature expanding on the methodology and ethcial questions of online interviews (via synchronous chat). I would be happy about any recommendation from the list.
Thanks a lot in advance!
Best, Carmen
Carmen Becker ----------------------------------------- research.carmenbecker.net
Radboud University Nijmegen Postbus 9103 6500 HD NIJMEGEN The Netherlands
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Hi Carmen, Willem and AoIRers I also used MSN and other chat programs to interview mainly young people who used ecstasy and other recreational drugs. My participants and I also found the instant messaging format worked well for discussing sensitive topics. You mentioned the need to use online interviewing so your participants could speak with you as a female from outside their family circle. I found that some of my younger online interviewees were amused to discover I was 10-15 years older than them as the interview progressed. The lack of visual cues can assist the building of rapport in some of these situations! Willem, I didn't know about your work - it was interesting to read about your approach to the Stormfront group. I'm writing about both those methodological issues regarding the online forums in my work (drug user groups) so will let you and the list know when it's available to read. Carmen, I would recommend reading the following papers which I have found particularly useful: Ayling, R., & Mewse, A. J. (2009). Evaluating Internet interviews with gay men. Qualitative Health Research, 19(4), 566-576. Dunkels, E., & Enochsson, A. (2007). Interviews with young people using online chat. In M. Quigley (Ed.), Encyclopedia of information ethics and security (pp. 403-410). Hersley: Idea Group Reference. Kazmer, M. M., & Xie, B. (2008). Qualitative interviewing in internet studies: Playing with the media, playing with the method. Information, Communication and Society, 11, 257-278. Al-Saggaf, Y., & Williamson, K. (2004). Online communities in Saudi Arabia: Evaluating the impact on culture through online semi-structured interviews. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 5(3). Voida, A., Mynatt, E. D., Erickson, T., & Kellogg, W. A. (2004, April 24–29). Interviewing over instant messaging. Paper presented at the CHI 2004, Vienna, Austria. see http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=986060 Also, I would love to read the following paper on this issue, but cannot get access to it. Can anyone else on this list get the full text for this article below? If you can, I would be most grateful if you were able to email it to me. Thanks! van Eeden-Moorefield, B., Proulx, C. M., & Pasley, K. (2008). A comparison of Internet and face-to-face (ftf) qualitative methods in studying the relationships of gay men. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 4(2), 181-204. Kind regards, Monica -- Monica Barratt BSc(Psych); PhD in progress... National Drug Research Institute Melbourne, Victoria, Australia http://preview.tinyurl.com/lwyyzq
Hi Carmen, I did synchronous online interviews back in 1996 and got really interested in how digital media influence our interviewing and ethnographic research methods. I talk a lot about the complications and processes of interviewing in synchronous chat the book Life Online (Sage 1998). I also recommend reading the stuff in Gubrium & Holstein's edited volume entitled: Inside Interviewing. The collection covers both classic and contemporary concerns and techniques. There's also a classic work by James Spradley (1979) called The Ethnographic Interview. His techniques for developing open ended interviews and asking good questions that will get people to open up and tell their stories are invaluable, whether you're doing interviews in person or online. I always return to this small volume. Cheers, Annette ***************************************************** Annette N. Markham, Ph.D. Senior Research Fellow, Internet Research Ethics Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee amarkham@gmail.com http://www.cipr.uwm.edu/ http://markham.internetinquiry.org/ Co-Editor, International Journal of Internet Research Ethics http://www.ijire.net On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Becker, C. (Carmen) <c.becker@rs.ru.nl>wrote:
Dear all,
I am in the middle of my phd research/fielwork on media practices of young Muslims in Germany and the Netherlands who are inspired by Salafism. My research involves among other things participant observation in chat rooms and also Internet forums. I have done quite some (offline) interviews with both, men and women. Some men that I know from Islamic chat rooms would like to participate in interviews. However, their understanding of Islam does not allow them to talk to women that are not related to them by family. They offered to talk to me via msn (or paltalk).
I would like to prepare myself and I am looking for some literature expanding on the methodology and ethcial questions of online interviews (via synchronous chat). I would be happy about any recommendation from the list.
Thanks a lot in advance!
Best, Carmen
Carmen Becker ----------------------------------------- research.carmenbecker.net
Radboud University Nijmegen Postbus 9103 6500 HD NIJMEGEN The Netherlands
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