These two articles offer a good overview of how social media platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook can be used for conducting diary methods, thereby offering qualitative researchers enhanced insight into everyday experience.

Do share with your students and colleagues!

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Key Considerations When Designing a Social Media-Based Diary Study

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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The Advantages of Social Media-Based Diary Methods: Using WhatsApp and Facebook Groups to Collect Diary Data on Everyday Lived Experience

Methodological Innovations

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I’ve now published two journal articles which explore this method in greater depth.

• The Advantages of Social Media-Based Diary Methods: Using WhatsApp and Facebook Groups to Collect Diary Data on Everyday Lived Experience

• Key Considerations When Designing a Social Media-Based Diary Study

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