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A case study of Twitter as a research tool
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posted on 2018-03-27, 13:46 authored by Ben Corbett, Allan EdwardsThis 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.
History
School
- Loughborough University London
Published in
Sport in SocietyVolume
21Issue
2Pages
394 - 412Citation
CORBETT, B. and EDWARDS, A., 2017. A case study of Twitter as a research tool. Sport in Society, 21 (2), pp.394-412.Publisher
© Taylor & FrancisVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
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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
2017-08-07Notes
This paper is in closed access.ISSN
1743-0437eISSN
1743-0445Publisher version
Language
- en