In this Productivity During Pandemic talk, PhD sutdent Andrey Kasimov shares tips and insights gained from conducting online interviews with anonymous participants belonging to reactionary online communities. He talks about the challenges of recruiting participants online and within the boundary of online forums. He also shares tech tips for fluid interviewing and discusses how to obtain consent and maintain anonymity for participants.
Bio:
Andrey is a PhD student in Sociology, and doing fascinating research into anonymous online spaces and their use by right-wing/reactionary movements. He anonymously interviews users of these spaces to learn more about the interaction between their online communities and political identities.
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