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<h1><span class="header-section-number">Chapter 5</span> Exercise 2 - documentary analysis</h1>
<p>For your next exercise, wed like to stick with the facebook theme and have you to conduct an informal study of a digital chat in an online forum. Facebook has a range of privacy settings for their groups (<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/06/understanding-public-closed-and-secret-facebook-groups">you can read more about public, closed and secret fb groups here</a> and <a href="https://www.lifewire.com/facebook-groups-4103720">here</a>), but for this exercise, wed like you to focus on one of the large public groups, for reasons which will become clear below.</p>
<p>If you have a facebook account, and dont mind using it (we will completely understand if you dont or prefer not to - see below for more on this), navigate to the Facebook group directory: (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/?category=discover" class="uri">https://www.facebook.com/groups/?category=discover</a>). For this exercise, you need to avoid groups which are “closed” or “private” even if youre already a member. Facebook does not have a feature which you can use to search for a public (as opposed to private or closed) group, so your best bet is to run a search for the term “public group”. Be careful, some groups may have chat with offensive content. Try to avoid groups which centre around sensitive topics. For this example, we ran a search for “public group” and in the list which came up, one was a group called “Tea &amp; Empathy (PUBLIC GROUP)” which the description tells us is “… a national, informal, peer-to-peer support network aiming to foster a compassionate and supportive atmosphere throughout the NHS.” Search for a different group, but make sure it has at least 500 members, so that there will be an active chat for the exercise below.</p>
<p>Now, click on “discussion” on the bar to the left to filter just discussion postings. Spend an hour reading through the threads and taking some notes towards a documentary analysis. What types of information are people sharing in the group? Are there any persons contributing data to this group sharing personal information? Now that you have a level of understanding of the facebook T&amp;Cs can you find any data here that a person might not want to post if they had the same level of understanding? Do you think that it would be ethical for a scholarly researcher or marketing consultant to make use of this data?</p>
<p>Write up a brief (but at least two paragraphs - 8-10 sentences) report. This should be strictly anonymised, i.e. dont mention any specific users in your report. Imagine that you are a consultant who has been hired to detect user literacy about platform T&amp;Cs. Summarise what youve found and your appraisal of the nature of this online chat.</p>
<p>Note: if youd prefer to avoid using facebook. Heres an alternative approach: check out one of the major alternative chat platforms. Wed recommend you start with something like StackExchange and browse to their <a href="https://stackexchange.com/sites#lifearts">directory of sites</a>. Scroll through the Q&amp;A and see if you can answer the questions as above.</p>
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