RESEARCH IN ONLINE SPACE: THE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR RESEARCH SETTING

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21609/jsi.v13i1.513
Keywords: Social media, data gathering strategies, quantitative and qualitative research

Abstract

Web 2.0 technology has supported the arrival of various social and collaborative applications. Those applications, which is known as social media, provide an opportunity for  users to express their opinions and share their knowledge and thoughts with others in online space.  This provides opportunities for reseachers to extend their research setting and generate data within a broader environement. As a result, researchers have increasingly turned to social media sites  to practice their research  to expand the scope and improve the analytic power of their studies. Yet there is still relatively little direction on and much confusion about how to gather data using qualitative and quantitative approaches on social media sites. Through an exstensive literature review from Information Technology and Information System journals, this studi  proposes new data gathering strategies within a broader environment of social media sites.   This study contributes to understanding of using social media for new  research settings. The limitation and future research of this study is addressed.

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Author Biography

Nurdin Nurdin, Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Palu

Nurdin is a senior lecture at State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN) Palu. He has a Master degree in Information Management from University of Western Australia (UWA) and a PhD degree in Information and Communication Technology from Swinburne University of  of Technology, Australia. He has been a teaching staff at IAIN Palu since 1997 and he is also the Director of STMIK Bina Mulia Palu. His research interest is in e-government, Information systems, Social media, and knowledge management. He has published in a number of international journals and proceedings. He has presented paper in number of  international conferences.

Published
2017-04-29
How to Cite
Nurdin, N. (2017). RESEARCH IN ONLINE SPACE: THE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR RESEARCH SETTING. Jurnal Sistem Informasi, 13(1), 67-77. https://doi.org/10.21609/jsi.v13i1.513
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Vol. 13 No. 1 (2017): Jurnal Sistem Informasi (Journal of Information System)
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