Exploring Social Media x Research Methods

I’m teaching research methods this summer and writing (or trying to write) a paper about incorporating social media into a research methods class. When I’ve taught this class, I have used of Flickr for a photo ethnography assignment and blogs for focus groups. Any other ideas would be much appreciated. Any literature about social media assignments would be helpful as well.

Ideas from other professors are here (I’m looking for more links to add):

Assorted ideas from Kaye Sweetser

Social media press release from Tom Kelleher

Issue tracking with Twitter from Tom Kelleher