Methodological implications of social media as a research setting for IS studies in healthcare : Reflections from a grounded theory study
(2013) 24th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, ACIS2013- Abstract
Over the last decade, social media environments have increasingly become an attractive research setting for Information Systems researchers. However, the methodological implications of this research setting for IS studies, are still not fully understood. In this paper we develop and present a framework to reflect on a recent qualitative healthcare IS study that focussed on the use of social media as a research setting. We argue that focusing on social media as a research setting in qualitative IS study can have implications for the contextualisation of the study (implications for the research paradigm), defining research setting (implications for research design), theoretical sampling (implications for data collection and data... (More)
Over the last decade, social media environments have increasingly become an attractive research setting for Information Systems researchers. However, the methodological implications of this research setting for IS studies, are still not fully understood. In this paper we develop and present a framework to reflect on a recent qualitative healthcare IS study that focussed on the use of social media as a research setting. We argue that focusing on social media as a research setting in qualitative IS study can have implications for the contextualisation of the study (implications for the research paradigm), defining research setting (implications for research design), theoretical sampling (implications for data collection and data analysis), and research ethics (implications for research design). With the popularity and growth of IS studies that focus on social media as a research setting in healthcare context, we conclude by calling for an extensive re-examination of methodological practices to meet the challenge of researching of social media in healthcare.
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- author
- Pousti, Hamid ; Urquhart, Cathy LU ; Burstein, Frada and Linger, Henry
- publishing date
- 2013
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Grounded theory method, Healthcare IS, Interpretative paradigm, Research setting, Social media
- host publication
- ACIS 2013: Information systems: Transforming the Future: Proceedings of the 24th Australasian Conference on Information Systems
- editor
- DENG, Hepu and STANDING, Craig
- publisher
- RMIT University
- conference name
- 24th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, ACIS2013
- conference location
- Melbourne, Australia
- conference dates
- 2013-12-04 - 2013-12-06
- external identifiers
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- scopus:84923902793
- ISBN
- 9780992449506
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © Hamid Pousti, Cathy Urquhart, Frada Burstein and Henry Linger 2013.
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- 06053f77-e40c-491a-8256-76d9aeac9bc9
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- 2023-11-22 15:14:31
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abstract = {{<p>Over the last decade, social media environments have increasingly become an attractive research setting for Information Systems researchers. However, the methodological implications of this research setting for IS studies, are still not fully understood. In this paper we develop and present a framework to reflect on a recent qualitative healthcare IS study that focussed on the use of social media as a research setting. We argue that focusing on social media as a research setting in qualitative IS study can have implications for the contextualisation of the study (implications for the research paradigm), defining research setting (implications for research design), theoretical sampling (implications for data collection and data analysis), and research ethics (implications for research design). With the popularity and growth of IS studies that focus on social media as a research setting in healthcare context, we conclude by calling for an extensive re-examination of methodological practices to meet the challenge of researching of social media in healthcare.</p>}},
author = {{Pousti, Hamid and Urquhart, Cathy and Burstein, Frada and Linger, Henry}},
booktitle = {{ACIS 2013: Information systems: Transforming the Future: Proceedings of the 24th Australasian Conference on Information Systems}},
editor = {{DENG, Hepu and STANDING, Craig}},
isbn = {{9780992449506}},
keywords = {{Grounded theory method; Healthcare IS; Interpretative paradigm; Research setting; Social media}},
language = {{eng}},
publisher = {{RMIT University}},
title = {{Methodological implications of social media as a research setting for IS studies in healthcare : Reflections from a grounded theory study}},
year = {{2013}},
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