I finished my data collection in July 2023 and am now writing my dissertation. (See the recruiting blurb blog post below for what I was working on). A preliminary report of the research has been published (DOI: 10.1177/00918296241261735 )
My overall impression of my data was that many people in the interactions I looked at are “standing up for Truth” as they see it, a good number are “speaking out against injustice,” but none that I could find were doing anything I could clearly identify as loving their neighbor (in a way identifiable as such by the neighbor)! (There were plenty explaining why “speaking the truth” as they see it was actually the most loving thing they could do; but that was received as hate, not love, by the recipients.)
My overall impression of my data was that many people in the interactions I looked at are “standing up for Truth” as they see it, a good number are “speaking out against injustice,” but none that I could find were doing anything I could clearly identify as loving their neighbor (in a way identifiable as such by the neighbor)! (There were plenty explaining why “speaking the truth” as they see it was actually the most loving thing they could do; but that was received as hate, not love, by the recipients.)
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A recruiting blurb that didn't work
This was the recruiting blurb I used (completely unsuccessfully!) to recruit research participants. Instead, I ended up just using actual social media interactions. I preserve users' confidentiality by excluding all metadata that could lead to them bei...
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Privacy is important
I take people’s privacy seriously. So, even though posts on public pages are open to anyone, it doesn’t necessarily follow that the people who made the posts want “what they have entered online” to “become [a researcher’s] data unbeknownst to them,” as...
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