Participant Recruitment through Social Media: Lessons Learned from a Qualitative Radicalization Study Using Facebook

Sikkens, Elga; San, Marion van; Sieckelinck, Stijn; Boeije, Hennie; Winter, Micha de

doi:10.1177/1525822x16663146

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“…In common with much recent qualitative health research Facebook proved to be a useful tool for promoting the study and for recruiting participants (Gelinas et al, 2017;Sikkens, van San, Sieckelinck, Boeije, & de Winter, 2016) with a majority of participants being accessed via this route rather than researcher visits to groups in centres. However, although participation in social media is now normative for people in the UK, this may also have ended up rather limiting the sample of participants recruited to the study and potentially skewed our findings over the importance of on-line peer support.…”

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Why aren't you stopping now?!’ Exploring accounts of white women breastfeeding beyond six months in the East of England

Newman

Williamson

2018

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Breastfeeding infants for a period of two years is endorsed by international health agencies such as the World Health Organisation. However, discourses of breastfeeding in a British context are complex and contradictory, juxtaposing representations of breastfeeding as healthy and a moral obligation for mothers with views of the act as unseemly and an expectation that nursing women practice 'socially sensitive lactation' especially in public spaces. Sustained breastfeeding rates in the UK are poor and most British women discontinue breastfeeding well before six months. Mothers who elect to feed their infants at the breast for longer than these normative periods appear to experience suspicion and disapproval, especially in a public context and breastfeeding women are only legally protected in feeding their infants in public for up to six months. Although breastfeeding research is flourishing, research on this particular population of mothers remains relatively limited. Therefore, in this study, we explore in-depth experiential accounts of eight women, resident in a town in the East of England, who breastfed their infants beyond six months. Using interpretative phenomenological analysis four themes are presented. Really horrible looks': stigma from families and the community', 'Feeling quite exposed': managing extended breastfeeding etiquette', 'Weird freaky paedophiles': representations of extended breastfeeding women in the media' and 'You really need that': the importance of support for longer-term breastfeeding women'. Applications to extended breastfeeding promotion and advocacy are discussed.

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Why aren't you stopping now?!’ Exploring accounts of white women breastfeeding beyond six months in the East of England

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Williamson

2018

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“…For the "offline" part of our study, in-depth interviews were conducted with 20 women who identified themselves as lesbian feminists. Often, it is difficult to gain access to RSMs, as their members are afraid of being prosecuted (Sikkens et al, 2017). Thanks to the connections with community gatekeepers, we were able to build trustful relations with several other members.…”

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Radical Self-Representation in a Hostile Setting: Discursive Strategies of the Russian Lesbian Feminist Movement

Mikhaylova

Gradoselskaya

2021

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Today, internet provides opportunities for solidarization and collective action to initiative groups of social movements, including those of high degree of radicalism. For radical groups, language continues to be a crucial instrument through which social movements influence public attitudes. In this article, we analyze discursive strategies that the radical social movement (RSM) of Russian lesbian feminism uses to shape its image among the out-group and in-group publics. To identify the strategies of RSM self-representation, we employ semi-structured interviewing, qualitative content analysis, discourse analysis, and semantic network visualization. We find that, in a hostile anti-LGBT legal and discursive environment, self-representation of lesbian feminists is mostly linked to issues of aggression, violence, and systemic social, political, and legal constraints, unlike in the United States; it is also based on separation from the wider society and dehumanization of bearers of patriarchal views.

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“…While social science researchers have tended to focus on recruiting hidden, special, or minority populations of young people using digital means (Sikkens, van San, Sieckelinck, Boeije, & de Winter, 2016; Temple & Brown, 2011; Worthen, 2013), digital methods can be equally as important in recruiting those who identify with majority/normalized social groups and statuses. This is because it is no longer just members of certain social groups, but a majority of millennial young adults in the United States, who are now seeking out social opportunities and information online (Duggan & Brenner, 2013).…”

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Recruitment Tools for Reaching Millennials

Dalessandro

2018

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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While some research has explored the use of Craigslist or other digital technologies to recruit research participants, little social science research has reflected on how digital technologies and Internet websites might be useful specifically for recruiting millennials. In this article, I discuss attempts to recruit millennial study participants through both digital and nondigital methods. Based on these attempts, I come to the conclusion that because U.S. millennials' social worlds are increasingly intertwined with digital technologies, this group of young people search for a range of opportunities and experiences primarily using digital means. Therefore, in order to recruit millennial participants in the United States most successfully, social researchers should consider using digital technologies.

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Participant Recruitment through Social Media: Lessons Learned from a Qualitative Radicalization Study Using Facebook

Cited by 33 publications

References 11 publications

Why aren't you stopping now?!’ Exploring accounts of white women breastfeeding beyond six months in the East of England

Why aren't you stopping now?!’ Exploring accounts of white women breastfeeding beyond six months in the East of England

Radical Self-Representation in a Hostile Setting: Discursive Strategies of the Russian Lesbian Feminist Movement

Recruitment Tools for Reaching Millennials

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