Qaiku | #someme | Jaakko Suominen: How do you do, Social Media? On triangulation matrixes and everyday research practices

Jaakko's blog: http://jaasuo.wordpress.com/

pe3 commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

Studying Internet use from the cultural perspective.

priio commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

Many times we focus on early adopters instead of later lifecycle phazes.

Probably one explanation for that there is more economical incentives to research early adopters. Is there more funding available for early adopters?

pe3 commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

"You cannot think of social media without including a variety of other media forms"

ConnectIrmeli commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

Quite a long introduction about Jaakko's earlier work...

pe3 commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

Coming up: "the rise and fall of social media"

troppone commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

First part of the presentation: Triangulation as a meta-method

aharju commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

Oh! Jaakko is one of the writers of Funetista Facebookiin. Now I'm a fan!

pe3 commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

Jaakko encourages people to read his blog post on todays subject.

pe3 commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

Methods are not exact instruments or machines! The same point as in the first presentation. You have to be carefull what you ask! And assume.

pe3 commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

@pe3: Should the name of this seminar have been "Research questions in social media" instead of the methods..? :)

priio commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

Triangulation as a meta method: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangul...

pe3 commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

@priio: good point! maybe we could have a method for forming questions :-D

pe3 commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

triangulation has a positivistic background, but is still useful as a concept and meta-method

awiklund commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

Let's collect questions for the panel in this thread http://www.qaiku.com/channels/show/someme/view/3f1...

juhak commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

@pe3: and that's maybe what Jaakko is just saying: reason to use triangulation as a method is that you can start with the mapping of area. --> The questions will be found from there

priio commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

Book: "Yhdessä ja liikkellä - mobiili sosiaalinen media"

personaleu commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

the holistic perspective is important in social media research

awiklund commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

I want Jaakko' slides. A lot of text - but good for copy/paste into method essays :-D

pe3 commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

The Medici Effect: New (research) innovations are discovered in boundaries and borders. So, there's the need to combine the perspectives. And the need for multidisciplinary research as well...

aharju commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

@pe3 they are posted at the simlab webpage. url is on the blackboard.

juhak commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

Ouh. I missed Jaakko's point about research funding. What did he say?

pe3 commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

Hmmm. So how to summarize why to use triangulation? Anyone?

pe3 commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

Hmm, the Medici effect has been on my "should read" for some time...

troppone commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

Triangulation matrix

personaleu commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

Now we go into planning triangulation

Make a table...
...for every method explain:
1) theoretical background
2) research material
3) schedule in research process
4) meaning for the whole research project

pe3 commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

@pe3 I regard it simply as a tool to improve "certainty" - in this case uncertainty comes from a new research topic, which is hard to define or categorize into existing discipline categories...but what is it that you want for an answer :)

troppone commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

1) Doing research about social media
2) Doing research while utilizing or abusing social media
3) Doing research in social media?

jahapaula commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

Social media - a tool, adapter (what's that?), or object?

pe3 commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

Was the "seeking and wandering" considered(mainly) a negative phenomenon in research? We in #somus project tend to call it openness, inclusiveness and agility and think it as beneficial for research - while of course acknowledging also the negative (time-taking, unfocusing, ...) side of it. :)

aharju commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

@troppone: that will do :-)

pe3 commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

@aharju that's a good question for the panel?!

troppone commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

We are living in social media.

personaleu commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

using triangulation is a pragmatic process driven by the research question, where you want to get published, etc

awiklund commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

It would be very fruitfull to have a research project case to look at while we think about this meta level.

pe3 commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

@aharju I've been calling ti "Salla surfing" method :P Just puts a bit more pressure to the part where you need to clearly define what you have been doing and to make it reliable.

jahapaula commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

@troppone @aharju: please also copy/paste good questions to this thread

pe3 commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

Digital culture

personaleu commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

@pe3 I agree that a case would demonstrate this well...

troppone commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

@jahapaula: I would want to test doing "Salla surfing" :-D

pe3 commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

Open Research Swarm (Tutkimusparvi) mentioned (microblogs, wiki, crowdsourcing)

troppone commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

Tutkimusparvi mentioned.

pe3 commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

Or should I say #tutkimusparvi - or has it become #somus

pe3 commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

a new kind of ideology, not just practice or methods

troppone commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

crowd sourcing as a new research culture with new research methods

awiklund commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

hmm... crowdsourcing research is a research ideology. well said.

juhak commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

But should we speak about Tutkimusparvi in imperfect form... Or does the swarm still exist?

priio commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

Is Jaakko underlining that in research life documents about your daily activities are important , what else triangulation means?

t23qaiku commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

@pe3 @troppone Yes, miss a concrete case example... Must do some practical reflection based on this slide afterwards... (slide captured from link through: http://www.simlab.tkk.fi/Research+Met...)

ConnectIrmeli commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

Ethics of using social media contents in research - not clear, not properly thought through yet, are they?

aharju commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

Important information about the risks of using social media for research data. Students might not be taught enough about the specifix ethical questions regarding the use of social media. For example, is using the nicknames for reserach about drug use among youths ok?

juhak commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

@priio: If you would have to answer that based on what our keynote speakers have said how would you answer?

pe3 commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

Here is a short paper on triangulation of methods
Wiklund-Engblom, A., Bengs, A., & Sperring, S. (2010). Triangulating UX Methods for Targeting End-Users’ Subjective Experiences of Media Content. In adj. proc. of the 8th EuroITV, 9-11 June, Tampere, Finland.
Availabe online at: http://usit.ieis.tue.nl/final%20paper...

awiklund commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

@aharju "innovations discovered in borders and boundaries" comes through the reality that social media is connecting people. I see a big upcoming change in the personalization of corporate / organizational cultures and communication. Weak links, swarms, ad-hoc teams, increased openess, cross-border collaboration and thie mixcture of multiple experts. Traditional specialization of operations can be modified to continuous adaption to change and complex needs of society.

visualradio commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

@pe3 few active participation, but... maybe I just don't see everything that is happening. People sending direct messages to each others? ;) Hmm.. there are so many forms of participation, collaboration and crowdsourcing that maybe it would be fairer to say that the swarm is not dead but has changed.

priio commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

@juhak: For us active in social media the border between hanging out in social media vs. research is also quite a fuzzy line. At what point should you switch to research ethics thinking?

pe3 commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

@awiklund added your paper on the reading lists at http://somus.etherpad.vtt.fi/166 hope that's ok!

aharju commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

@pe3 the point for asking that question comes when you want to publish, i think.

juhak commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

I find this slide very interesting - how much researchers' background before the era of social media affects on the research performance; how is the researchers' cultural self-understanding modeled / measured / visualized?

ConnectIrmeli commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

@juhak: at what point should you inform people that you are collecting material? if at all?

pe3 commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

hmm... did we already pass the question of triangulation...

pe3 commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

The idea of using research blogs as a part of supervising thesis work is a good one! Some advance compared to the good old essay method...

jahapaula commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

questions?

pe3 commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

@jahapaula: I agree. Just considered (again) starting to use a supervising blog finally...

priio commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

Thank you Jaakko! Very interesting!

awiklund commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

how do you supervise the quality of research diary blogs?

pe3 commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

I think the audience question was: how does triangulation work for research related to developing social media tools.

pe3 commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

"We need more discussion on how we utilizice social communities!"

ConnectIrmeli commented on posted to #someme 31.08.2010 (en)

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