Dear Carmen et al.... I recently gave a refereed paper at the Emerging Researchers in Ageing conference which compared the four different interviewing methods I used in my study of late life romantic relationships: face-to-face, telephone, instant messaging and email. The paper is relatively brief (only 2000 words), but may be helpful to you. Like Monica, I found IM (I used Yahoo and Hotmail) and email to be particularly good for dealing with sensitive topics, especially in my case as I was looking at issues of love, sex, intimacy and infidelity in older adult relationships - all issues which could be pretty confronting and/or embarrassing at times in the face-to-face and telephone interviews. Malta, S. (2009) Qualitative Interviewing of Older Adults: Offline versus Online Methods. Proceedings 8th National Conference of Emerging Researchers in Ageing. A New Era for Ageing Research: What's in Your Toolkit? pp. 133-137. www.med.monash.edu/sphc/haru/conference09 Kind regards Sue Malta PhD Candidate Social & Policy Studies Faculty of Life & Social Sciences Swinburne University ............................................... Sue Malta Managing Editor International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society (iJETS) Swinburne University of Technology John Street, Hawthorn, VIC 3122 Email: ijets@swin.edu.au Or: smalta@groupwise.swin.edu.au www.swin.edu.au/ijets

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"Becker, C. (Carmen)" 28/10/09 5:28 AM >>> 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 _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/