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posted on 2018-03-27, 13:46 authored by Ben Corbett, Allan Edwards
This paper documents the process of utilizing Twitter for a doctoral dissertation in rugby governance, and highlights the key benefits of using Twitter as a research tool. Research followed a case study approach to delve into the four major uses of Twitter: (1) a warning system for dramas or incidents relating to one’s research field; (2) data collection; (3) finding and recruiting research subjects; and (4) building a personal research brand. The research design used a mixed method approach that combined qualitative and quantitative analysis methods. The findings serve as the basis for the pursuit of more detailed future research with Twitter as the principal medium in focus within the area of sport.

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  • Loughborough University London

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Sport in Society

Volume

21

Issue

2

Pages

394 - 412

Citation

CORBETT, B. and EDWARDS, A., 2017. A case study of Twitter as a research tool. Sport in Society, 21 (2), pp.394-412.

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© Taylor & Francis

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2017-08-07

Notes

This paper is in closed access.

ISSN

1743-0437

eISSN

1743-0445

Language

  • en

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