Guest lecture with Nancy Baym: ”Qualitative Internet Research: New Media and Methodology”

Abstract of talk:
Nancy Baym will be discussing the methodological issues she's encountered in her recent qualitative and quantitative research online. Her research on friendship in the music-based social networking site, Last.fm, for example, combines quantitative and qualitative survey questions and raised several challenges in recruiting appropriate participants as well as integrating the two kinds of responses. Her work on independent Scandinavian music and its online fans involved multiple forms of online interviewing including email, chat and skype (audio and video), and she will discuss the variation in interviews that resulted.

About Nancy Baym:
Nancy Baym is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas. She is currently involved in a research project examining community, friendship, and music fandom on the social networking site Last.fm. She has published widely on the topics of online community and the internet’s place in personal relationships.

Nancy keeps a blog about “Online Fandom”: http://www.onlinefandom.com/
Nancy’s homepage: http://people.ku.edu/~nbaym/


The guest lecture is arranged by Malene Charlotte Larsen (http://malenel.wordpress.com/) and Centre for Qualitative Studies, Aalborg University.

For more information about the lecture e-mail Malene Charlotte Larsen: malenel@hum.aau.dk