Although ethical guidelines for doing Internet research are available, most prominently those
of the Association of Internet Researchers (www. aoir. org), ethical decision-making for …

New to online research? This book will give you the foundation you need to confidently
design and conduct a project using internet methods. First providing an overview of online …

In introducing the new concept of context design, this book draws on data collected as part
of a research project titled Creating Facebook. This introductory chapter outlines the aims …

This book investigates how social media are reconfiguring dying, death, and mourning.
Taking a narrative approach, it argues that dying, death, and mourning are shared online as …

This article explores ethical conundrums in linguistic research on online platforms populated
by 'pick-up artists'(PUAs), a community that learns and practices speed-seduction for short …

Emotion has long been a contested concept and subject to different, often conflicting,
definitions and approaches. Emotions have long been viewed in a reductionist way as solely …

As early career researchers studying the end of life, we recognise that scholarly activity in
the field of death studies–an umbrella term for research spanning all aspects of death, dying …

Internet users' comments in online spaces have attracted researchers' attention in recent
years. Although this data is typically publicly available, its use requires careful consideration …

Trains and, later, planes have exerted a peculiar fascination on travellers for almost two
hundred years. As Marchant (2004: 3) notes, in the UK '[t] he railway has been a national …

Background The depiction of dementia in public discourse tends to operate on two levels:
the tragedy discourse or the living well with dementia discourse, where metaphors play a …