Visual Methods for Social Media Research

This online workshop has been organised by the Data, Communication and New Technologies (DCT) Pathway and is open to all ESRC and non-ESRC funded PhD and MA Social Research students within the WRDTP’s seven partner universities. Whilst this workshop is aimed at DCT Pathway students, PGRs from all seven interdisciplinary Pathways are welcome to attend.

This course provides an introduction to using visual methods in social media research. The course is in two parts. 1) Participants will familiarise themselves with an introduction to visual methods within social media research through a video and readings from experts in the field. These resources will cover the visual and the digital; visual research and analysis and how to tackle challenges. 2) Participants will attend a live online session  where they will be able to ask questions related to the content of the video and the readings irrelevant to  their own PhD project.

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

• Understand what can be researched through social media visual content;
• Discuss and potentially apply a range of techniques to conduct visual analyses of social media content;
• Discuss ethical issues in visual methods for social media research.

Prior to attending the session participants should watch the recorded session available here