Hi there. My name is Benjamin Gleason and I'm a 2nd year PhD student at Michigan State University. I'm currently doing a study that explores the digital literacy practices and identity performances of high school aged Twitter users. The study design is composed of two stages-- the first will be a discourse analysis of tweets and the second will be semi-structured interview about their Twitter practices. I've received IRB approval for my study and am ready to recruit and enroll participants, who I've been following on Twitter for the past 4-6 weeks or so. Anecdotally, I've seen a lot of interesting identity-work happening and would like to get the young people I've been following to participate in the study. I invited a few of the participants to join the study, but the response has been limited. I was hoping to find participants through Twitter who may be interested in participating, but that doesn't seem to be happening. I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions for how to recruit participants (aged 15-18) to join my study. The requirements of the study *seem* pretty minimal-- only one (or maybe two) interviews about their Twitter use. But I'm having a hard time getting young people to participate. Your help is appreciated. Thanks and have a great day :) -- p: 415-516-6240 https://sites.google.com/site/bwgleason (research) http://www.progroup.us <http://www.prospectusgroup.us> (consulting) "For every single idea of a judicious and reasonable nature which offers itself to us, what hosts of frivilous, bizarre, and absurd ideas cross our mind." [Paul Soriau, Theory of Invention, 1881]