Social Media Research - Science topic

are there scientific foundations related to Social media research especially data analysis of social media I can join?

On social media platforms (e.g. Twitter), after posting a tweet that has been used to refute false information, is it reliable to use the comments below it to assess the credibility of the tweet? As it is the user's choice whether or not to comment, does this practice lead to selection bias? For example, under the pressure of certain social norms, it takes courage to refute information posted by an official account, i.e. users who support the official claim are more likely to comment.

Hello everyone. I have question about obtaining data from Internet.

In my research I will analyze comments from websites and social media platforms. And I am searching for applications/apps/technologies other tools to download comments from Internet to my computer.

Do you know any tools/apps to download comments for free?

There is around 10.000 comments and if I would copy/paste one by one it would take me a lot of time. I want to obtain data quickly.

Do you have any suggestions for me?

Thank you so much for help.

Regards, Nejc

We are conducting a research about the language use of Manobo students on social media specifically facebook, twitter and instagram. Your input could surely enhance the said endeavor.

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In my opinion, this may be interesting research. It is worth exploring correlations between the profile of interests, between the environment of bringing up children and youth and the type of social networking site and the thematic profile of websites, types of social media websites, their specific thematic subpages. In this respect, there may be strong correlations that are worth investigating scientifically. Interesting may also be correlations between the development of children's and teenagers 'interests and the websites of social media portals viewed and certain types of thematic and group websites focusing on particular Internet users' environments.

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Which social media portals are currently being used to the greatest extent in business, for example in internet marketing, in order to present the offer of products and services, present the mission and perspectives of the company's development, improve the company's brand image?

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Is it for children and young people to limit, limit the use of smartphones?

Should I fully control the use of smartphones by children and adolescents?

If children or adolescents use smartphones for learning, as a tool to support education processes, communication with schoolchildren and friends, and if these devices use new online media from time to time, this may not be positively assessed. However, if divides or young people from smartphones use many hours a day, among other things, viewing advertisements on social media portals and worthless memes and films, then it can have a destructive effect on the intellectual and psychological development of children and adolescents. In this situation, the use of smartphones by children and teenagers should be limited and controlled by parents, guardians and teachers.

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I have started writing an article related to "Narcissism" and its effect on "Social Media". Can anyone suggest a good quality journal where I can submit it. Basically, it will be a systematic literature review paper.

I do not finish my writing yet, so I am not able to share my title or abstract yet.

The database of a social media portal such as Facebbok is already a powerful collection of information. Some research centers specializing in the use of Big Data datasets downloaded from social media portals through sentiment analysis, develop reports that can help in forecasting phenomena and processes in the future.

Medicine is one of the areas in which there are great possibilities in this matter. For example, insurance companies and commercial banks granting loans may be interested in information shared by users on Facebook and, possibly, also on other social media portals.

Apparently, some insurance companies and commercial banks during the analysis of a submitted insurance or credit application review the information content of accounts, applicant profiles, potential customer, contractor posted on social media portals. Does anyone from you conduct research in this field? Does anyone of you have scientific publications with research results in this field?

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I am doing a research on Twitter and would like to archive tweets over 6 to 10 months. is there any software that I would use to archive the tweets?

1. Please suggest easy to use questionnaire.

The continuous increase of online users, have given opportunity to many business executives to utilize social media for their brand promotion or recognition. Organizations utilize social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Flicker, Google Plus and YouTube to promote their product, service or brand worldwide. Increase of consumer engagement in online social activities forced companies to integrate social media factors into their marketing strategy.

How should/could we consider all of the dimensions, polarization and dialectic and problematic forms of engagement within and in relation to social when doing research on citizen engagement in relation to social media? Our research team has been doing research on the subject for the past few years, and this has involved online questionnaires in a number of countries, case studies using mainly Twitter data, interviews with diverse colleagues and civil society activists internationally, and knowledge dissemination and debate mainly through Facebook, among other connected projects. While we can theorize and conceptualize citizen engagement (we’re interested in examining the effects of social media on citizen engagement?), we’re also participants (consumers and producers of debate, dialogue and interaction). We’ve noticed and also experienced bots, trolls, cantankerous individuals and moments of in- and mis-comprehension. This goes with the terrain but also makes us reflect on how debate does, should and might take place within the confines of click-bait, clictivism and sharply divergent viewpoints. Some have argued that there isn’t a lot of space between disconnected and unlike groups and interests to address concerns in a meaningful way, and we can see this. Others have noted there are some openings for more engaged and salient debate, and we can also see that some social movements have been able to move beyond mobilized opposition to reach higher levels (BLM, #metoo, Idle No More and other examples), and, effectively, bring about some levels of conscientization and social change. My question relates to this changing context, and how we should consider social media research, warts and all. Traditionally, there have been many levels of control on who participated and how through research but now the gate has been, proverbially, blown open. How do researchers consider the ethical, epistemological, methodological and personal dimensions of research that connects with, is interwoven with and overlaps with social media?

Security of social media portals is currently one of the most important topics of social media portals and other new internet media and information services. Therefore, scientists at various universities are involved in researching this issue. Therefore, security tools for information collected in social media portals databases and data security systems on the Internet are being developed. In companies and key public institutions, systems for risk management of information systems and information transfer on the Internet are also developed.

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There is a lot of mental disturbance due to social media platforms. How can someone manage that mental stress? Won’t social media platforms harm our brain more than now. What about the future generations?

I am trying to complete my PhD thesis and I would like to extract data from social media (in particular Facebook).

Most of the methods I found are now obsolete. Any recommendations? Thanks.

The Internet has been developing only for 3 decades becoming the main global information medium and the environment for creating new types of websites and innovative, technological startups that are successful in business if they offer attractive information services. Examples of companies that initially as startups and now as large technology companies have achieved spectacular business successes are corporations offering Internet information and marketing services in the environment of created and developed social media portals.

Currently, there are many, at least several dozen globally operating social media portals, several of which have gained a large, minimum percentage or larger share in the market of information and marketing internet services. Globally, these markets are dominated by several social media portals that have specialized in a specific profile of information and / or information offered to a particular segment of Internet users. Social media portals dominating globally include: Facebook, Instagram, Tweeter, LinkedIn, Google+, YouTube, Pinterest and others. Among the Internet users, the largest segment of the recipients of information services for social media portals are young people, many of whom are still students of primary and secondary schools as well as students studying at universities. As a result, social media portals used as a communication medium by students are increasingly becoming an instrument supporting the learning process.

Due to the above, the dynamic development of social media portals on the Internet is currently underway. For young people using smartphones, social media portals are one of the main sources of information. Probably the next stage in the development of social media portals will be the implementation of artificial intelligence to these portals and to search engines and the creation of applications of the type of interactive advisors on individual Internet information pages. New technologies of computerized, advanced information processing, technologies typical for the current fourth technological revolution, known as Industry 4.0, are increasingly integrating and functioning in the Internet environment.

The current technological revolution, known as Industry 4.0, is determined by the development of the following technologies of advanced information processing: Big Data database technologies, cloud computing, machine learning, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, Business Intelligence and other advanced data mining technologies. These technologies are successively implemented to developed social media portals. Due to the development of applications of these advanced information processing technologies, new types of computerized teaching instruments are created in educational processes, and educational systems also undergo technological transformation and Education 4.0 is defined.

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Do you think artificial intelligence will be implemented in social media portals?

What are the effects of artificial intelligence implemented on social media portals?

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Please share any representative constructs and measurement scales pertaining to Firm Generated Content (FGC) and Social Listening.

I am looking for a database where social networking sites statistics such as facebook, twitter etc are available for Australian companies. Has anyone an idea whether something like that exists and/or if there is a software which will extract that data? 

Seeking the equivalent to a social networks structure graph for online scholarly article mentions. 

The market of information and marketing services on the Internet is developing dynamically.

First of all, large technology companies, owners of information portals and social media prevailing on these Internet markets based their business concepts on the provision of information and advertising services through the websites of their online portals.

However, it is still possible to analyze the division of marketing instruments into traditional ones and implemented in new online media in correlation with specific types of advertising in particular types of media for products and services.

In view of the above, the current question is: What types of products or services are already advertised in your countries in new online media, including on social networking websites?

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Hello, colleagues! Which social media monitoring / listening system do you prefer in your countries? In Russia we mostly use Brand Analytics and Youscan.

As a student I am currently working on a Social Media Research report project analysing a piece of content that has both interesting audio voice over and interesting videography.

In my research of this content I would like to briefly discuss how we absorb content and if there is any difference between genders when absorbing content that has both visual and audio.

Some high ranked journals are asking for theoretical framework regarding my social media research. Is it essential? Does anyone provide me some social media and communication journals with high acceptance rate?

We are using the social media (FB, blog, and twitter) as an advocacy tool for our community research interventions. We have challenges of penetration into the main stream marginalized population with limited literacy. We're using innovative approaches for every campaign. I'm very interested to know about the functional types of social media related to community based research.

I am currently writing my dissertation investigating the motivations of older adults in their participation in online communities. I am looking for journals where I can publish. This is my first attempt to publish in a journal. Any recommendations? Perhaps you can share your experience in publishing in these journals (timeline, processing charges, review processes). Since my study is multidisciplinary, journal recommendations on the areas of ageing, gerontology, social media and communication are appreciated.

What kind of scientific research dominate in the field of social media portals? What are the important topics in the field: Social media?

Social media can affect the personal lives of individual people. The sociological behavior of people is changing. Some people exchange traditional contacts with other people for contacts via social media portals. It changes the sociology of people's behavior, it affects sociological behavior, it generates new types of problems that also affect behavioral economics and the behavior of entire communities.

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The protection of private life is essential since a possible injury might be impossible to repair. The video gives a larger view of the invasion of private life caused by social media with a distinct emphasis on FB as the first mover in this business, but in the end only refers to possible financial damages. In my opinion the safety of the internet transactions is only a secondary aspect of a much bigger problem, which is protection of privacy on internet. I am asking for you opinion.

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a couple years ago I used linked to elicit respondents to a survey about the demise of a large global company. It was ideal to connect with people that had worked there and that could provide first hand accounts of this specific case. Are you aware of other published studies that have used social media platforms for their data collection needs? A quick literature review turned up very little.

Laurent

I'm willing to submit my research work on a Bangladeshi social movement related to social media. It is a descriptive research based on a case study. But I'm in a confusion about choosing a suitable journal. Looking for experts' help.

October is celebrated as Employee Ownership Month. I am interested in using the NCapture feature of NVivo to capture the Tweets tagged with Employee Ownership Month and variants. The purpose of the research would be to analyze common themes in employee owned companies in how they recognized or celebrated employee ownership. This may include traditional qualitative coding, or analyzing the tweets via NVivo for sentiment.

Have/ or how have other researches incorporated Social Media into research?

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I intend to study some health posts and comments on the social media with the intention of analysis such information for research purposes. I plan to maintain anonymity of the originators of the posts and those that commented. Is ethical for me to do so?

Social media research is gaining ground , so is the search for theories other than spawned by old media research in terms of media control, technology, audiences and effects on audiences. The same for data-sets to measure effects, emotions, consumer behavior and hybrid warfare.

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I am interested in the field of experience economy and atmospherics and how can brands use this to leverage their social media marketing efforts.

In practitioner literature they are highlighting the trend of brands designing experiences purposively to be showcased on social media.

For example, restaurants are becoming "instagrammable" to increase the chances of customer taking photos and sharing it on social media.

Firms can design their offline space in a strategic way in order to get visitors motivated to generate user-generated-content and post it on social media, which increases the social media presence of the brand.

Although I have found a vast amount of research on experiences and atmospherics, I have not ben able to find literature related that has identified this specific gap.

Can anybody help me with this?

Does anybody know of any author that might have, even slightly, touched on this topic?

Is for my Master's Dissertation.

Thank you very much for your help.

Instead of switching on our laptops now we have handy touch screen mobiles with many apps of social media and research stool.Do you think such mobile and advances in their technology have positive impact on our researches or publication? why ,how and how much.

As we know social media has become an international product that connect all the world, but if we starting band company like Huawei, their is a consequences (ex. economically,socially). Because most users of the social media are a smartphone users. And Huawei has the second best sales in the world. Android has more than 80% of the smartphone market and a huge amount of that market is owned by foreign country(Huawei China and Samsung South Korea) The dilemma here is USA has the most of Social media market but at the same time do not have the same advantage in the smartphone market.

I am currently working on a students of Mass Communication perception towards advertising in social media research.

May I know how to measure the perception in my study and what Independent variables that lead to Perception? Thanks.

What kind of scientific research dominate in the field of Social Media portals?

Please, provide your suggestions for a question, problem or research thesis in the issues: Social Media portals.

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The problems of the analysis of information contained on social media portals for marketing purposes are described in the publication:

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I need to collect data for research. How do I gain access to Twitter pipeline and how much will such access cost?

Many data show that the largest internet technology companies that run social media portals, search engines, information services in cloud computing, instant messaging and other Internet information services gather in their Big Data database systems various information about Internet users using individual information, communication and marketing internet services. Often Internet users are not fully aware of how much information is available about them in Big Data database systems run by the largest online technology companies. on the basis of information collected from various websites and portals about Internet users in Big Data database systems operated by these online technology companies, electronic equivalents of individual People are created in the form of so-called avatars. On the basis of this information, result reports are created in the Big Data database systems of internet technology companies, which are sold to other companies interested in a specific target group of clients, to which they direct their offer of products or services. Frequently, Internet users notice that after they have searched the Internet for information on a specific topic, right after this search on various websites they use, advertisements or products related to what they just searched on the internet have been displayed on advertising banners. This is an example of the use of collected information in the Big Data database systems on the subject of users of individual websites and web portals via the Internet technology company.

In view of the above, I am asking you:

Are there any publications describing the avatars of users of social media portals built in Big Data database systems belonging to the largest online technology companies?

Does anyone of you research the problems of users of online portals built in Big Data database systems?

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A lot of people are making money by taking videos for youtube, or by tweeting etc. They usually called as youtuber or twitter phenomenon.

As they make money from this work and most of them professionals of this area. What do you think about naming them as social media entrepreneurs? Or do you think they are artists? What is your opinion about what their title is? How can we address them in academical publishings?

It seems to me that the answer to this question can be sought through the study of behavioral, social and informational activities of users of social media portals.

Users of social media portals provide specific information for their friends or publicly on the websites of specific social media portals and in the comments posted on other websites.

In this way, social communication develops, which significantly complements and displaces the classic mass media information.

On the other hand, social media portals written by users are a valuable source of information for marketing companies, which analyze and analyze analytical reports commissioned by other companies interested in the opinions of Internet users relating, for example, to the recognition of a brand, product, mission of a specific company.

In view of the above, the current question is: The development of social communication on the Internet?

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Nowadays, a lot of social media occupied the minds of PhD Scholars and as such most of their times are being devoted on this social media activities. Most scholars are being distracted at home by family activities. How did you do it that you finish as expected? What did you do to your times? How much time did you spend daily on your write up or your research? How did you prioritize your time? I heard of a Doctor saying that during his PhD Program that he deactivated his Facebook and Whatsapp just to ensure that he finish as designed by the university. In your own case, what method(s) did you apply that makes you finish on or before the time? I will appreciate your candid opinions. Thanks

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I am currently pursuing my MSc. in Information Systems Management from the University of Liverpool. As part of my dissertation research, I would like to help us discover the market’s sentimental mood from micro-blogging posts through identified text clustering and lexical analysis algorithms.

To begin the survey;

What you’ll experience will be a simulation of the identified algorithms at work which automatically mark text comments as very negative, negative, neutral, positive and very positive. Your participation in the remaining part of the survey will help us establish how these algorithms can further be used to improve market research in terms of effectively analyzing the market's response to corporate social media posts.

All information collected as part of this research will strictly be treated in confidentiality with individual firms or people not identified.

Thank you for your consideration, your feedback is important.

Yours Sincerely,

Wendy Oludhe

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Tweets can be downloaded through the R with the Twitter API. Various filters can be used for these tweets (e.g. language, region, time period). While doing so, a word or hashtag is determined and the tweets containing these can be downloaded.

Well, is there any way to get tweets from a particular time frame or location without using any hashtags or words via Twitter API? I just want to get tweets using filters without any specific word or hashtag. I wonder if there is a function like that on Twitter's premium or enterprise API account?

Thanks in advance.

hi, I am looking for a sms/text/tweets collection about racism, xenophobia and violence in order to train an algorithm. I am using RapidMiner.

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For a common user, does Facebook differ from Twitter? And they care more about technological features or other things of different platform?

 corpus is not publicly available , so how can i get it?

Please tell me current problems and challenges for social media like facebook, twitter, youtube.

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I am looking for a scale of self-enhancement to use in my social media research. Does anyone have any scale recommendations? The fewer items, the better in this instance.

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Do you know some framework / approach I could use on the analysis of the moral related aspects of reviews online? Many thanks in advance.

I would love to collect some input from the community.

Until 2016, it was possible to develop apps that could mine Instagram information for analysis; a masters student of mine built her thesis around information processed through a custom-built tool. Then Instagram closed access, and apparently only commercial use is allowed, and through a difficult process.

I'd like to know if there have been any changes to that situation, or to Instagram policy, and whether any fellow researcher has been able to access Instagram data for academic research.

I want to create a credit scoring system based on social media data and I am looking for a suitable dataset, but I have not been able to find it. I need a dataset containing:

1- content text

2- metadata about the post (user's age, location, etc.)

3- ego network

4- financial information or credit score (want to compare social credit score with traditional FICO score)

Can anybody help me to find a data-set with this features please?

This study focused on social media influence on youth social life.

I have witnessed that most of the recent quantitative social media research studies which published in the top world ranked journals were employing statistical technique as simple as regression analysis and as advanced as SEM to a greater extent. However, almost every research is using convenient sampling. But still, most of the academia being as panel members of research viva voce are strictly expecting the sampling method to be random to perform such analysis techniques. I want expert scholarly insights on above issue.

I and my research group are doing research related fake news (hoax) on social media especially Twitter. We are somewhat confused to specify the parameters that characterize the fake newsletter accounts. And here are some questions we are confusing about.

I would like you to share your understanding in response to the following:

a) Why sites like mystarbucksidea.force cannot be counted under social media? Even if such stakeholder engagement platforms are owned by companies that market directly, they can be spun off tomorrow to make them largely independent and broadbase themselves as general purpose social media.

Isn't there too much at stake for big companies to leave social media to few outside players like facebook and google+?

b) If social media continues to be increasingly powerful, it may eclipse or even subsume traditional media (print, broadcast etc.) that is mainstream media today. In such an event, it may no longer be possible to tell social media apart from other media and as a consequence; social media marketing apart from rest of marketing. It'll just be part of integrated marketing like what happened in the case of Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC).

Do you foresee a scenario in which almost all media shall be subsumed under social media?

I'm currently trying to find out that our perception about the millennial generation (Gen Y) is that they are overly exposed to social media and look for ways of connecting with people even when at the workplace, does this perception of them hold true in terms of their workplace behavior? And what are the behavioral differences across different generations at the workplace?

I have a large (very large) Facebook data set which I used to write a paper on Facebook addiction. I am looking for people that would like to write joint papers using the data set. Here is an overview of the data available:

1. For 1200 people answers to a survey on Facebook addiction

2. 300 answers to a survey on Internet addiction

3. A follow-up study on motivations for Facebook usage (1100 people)

4. A test of friending decisions with a random group of unknown people sending invitations to each person (10 invitations were sent to each person)

5. Detailed information on the posting habits of 1500 people

6. Detailed information on the lifestyle and purchasing habits for 1500 people

The full data set is about 350 MB with a little over 4000 data fields

I recently finished a paper on a Facebook addiction measurement tool. This will be submitted soon

I am personally interested in writing papers on the following…

• What drives people to accept invitations from unknown people

• What are the correlates of Facebook addiction in terms of activity on Facebook ad general buying/lifestyle habits

If you would be interested in doing something together, please send me an email bcassady@vub.ac.be

Companies have started branding products and services via social media like FB, You tube etc. I am trying to look if a similar framework can be used by organizations to brand themselves as great places to work and what kind of impact such branding would have on potential applicants.

I have already done some work on this aspect - psychology and culture - the POVs and other explanatory aspects to understand the relevant implications on the sexually explicit materials in the media. There are many models related to the cultural studies that can be used when it comes to analysing these aspects from cultural point of views. For Psychology - what can a relevant theoretical framework in this regard? I want to explore a number of psychology related theoretical frameworks in this regard...

Preferably a quick measure to test adults, such as a questionnaire.

Hello, Researchers,

If you use anything of the Memes rule the World dataset slide show attached below, I will appreciate a citation. This is MLA format.

McMillan, Gloria. "Effects of Facebook Memes on the Brain." ResearchGate Accessed 28 Jul 2018. https://www.researchgate.net/post/Effects_of_Facebook_Memes_on_the_brain

Question:

Is anyone studying the costs and benefits of "meme trading" on social media?  Is the effect more negative?  That is, causing fewer neural connections to be formed because passing on "junk memes' is so low cognitive activity.  OR is there some burst of neural development that comes from passing on many slogans and posters?

I  wonder if the cognitive developmental of Facebook and other social media "memes" are being studied.

Older adults tend to use "boilerplate" language when they tell stories.  Key words will trigger a story told with identical phrases.  These older adults are not creating new neural connections, or very few, when they repeat the same phrases.  Do memes function this way and what are their effects on much younger people?

I am currently working on my dissertation and am studying why some people create and share content in online communities and some do not. Does anyone know a valid instrument I can use?

I define "bookish social media" as bookish minded communities on popular social media sites (i.e. BookTube, #bookstagram, book blogs, etc.). Any literature you think might be of value to read would be appreciated! 

So, Hornet is currently the most popular geo-social dating application for gay/bi men in Turkey. That is why I decided to study interactions there and my intention is to draw my sample for the quantitative part of the research from discreet Hornet users. Problem is those users are discreet meaning that they either have no picture on their profile (they don't see them unless they contact you), or they have pictures of part of their bodies, or random pics on their profile. Some of them identify their discreet status with hashtags. Anyways, I assume that maybe there are 1000-2000 Online hornet users on average at any time in a day in Turkey.

What should be the sample size for the survey, quantitative part?

How would you go about contacting those discreet members of the application?

Would you perhaps create a researcher account explicitly stating that you look for   Discreet users?

Or, how about individually contacting people on the platform? Would it be representative and/or ethical?

i have no field experience in social sciences, especially quantitative research. So I wonder how would you go about collecting this data?

In order to analyze and understand the behavior and common characteristics of spammers  on Facebook; I have decided to use a honeypots based method. Is anyone aware of creating honeypots on Facebook in a effective way which actual spammers get attracted?  

Hello Everyone,

Have you had experience of or  know any studiesusing Instagram photography as a research mode in a tourism context? I am interested in exploring the food images consumers "share" via Instagram and am struggling to find any examples

of a similar approach, and suitable methodologies, Pink does make reference, but I wondered if there were any more recent practical examples or studies that I could draw upon?

thank you and with best wishes

sharon.