Principal Investigator:
Eszter Hargittai
While lots of methods exist to gather data about youth digital media practices, few yield the level of richness that can be captured when users’ online behavior is observed directly. That is, when we are able to record – at the level of screen content, as well as accompanying commentary and social context – how youth are using digital media in real time, we manage to collect details which can be elusive when using other methods such as surveys or interviews. The Observational/Log Data Methods Working Group will make methodological advances in how to gather, code, analyze, interpret and compare observational and log data about youth digital media practices.