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Cabecinhas, R. & Abadia, L. (eds.) (2013)Narratives and social memory: theoretical and methodological approachesBraga: University of MinhoISBN: 978-989-8600-04-2pp. 119 -133Researching Identity Narratives in Cyberspace:Some Methodological ChallengesLurdes Macedo, Moisés de Lemos Martins,Rosa Cabecinhas & Isabel Macedo1, 2, 3, 4University of Minho, Portugalmlmacedo71@gmail.comAbstractCyberspace as a study object entails remarkable challenges to researchers, especiallybecause it is an immaterial and highly changeable environment. This paper addressessome of the methodological challenges faced during a research about Lusophone identitynarratives in blogs and sites in Brazil, Mozambique and Portugal, and the outlinedstrategies to overcome the difficulties found.The first challenge was how to design a Lusophone cyberspace cartography, due to thefact that, on one hand, everyday there are new blogs and new sites online, on the otherhand, many of these blogs and sites suddenly disappear. Then, some challenges werefaced to conduct the content analyses of the selected blogs and sites. In addition, thestudy objects were too different to enable the use of a single observation protocol, withpre-established categories.Furthermore, there were some questions to deal with the statistical analyses of the blogs.Initially, the researchers concluded that the statistical analyses, which in some casesdepend on the collection of data within the blogs, might inflate the results obtained, forinstance the number of visitors, the visitors’ origin and the visit average time. Therefore, theHeisenberg uncertainty principle was a valid methodological concern because the blogsand sites observation probably would change the object behaviour. Finally, a well-knownresearch question was addressed: how to interview the bloggers and the webmasterswhile minimising the impact of the interview in the blogs’ content production.Having identified and described the challenges faced during the research, the aim of this paperis to discuss some methodological ideas about how to study identity narratives on cyberspace.Key wordscyberspace; identity; methods; Lusophony1. The starting point: identity narratives in the Lusophone world 1According to some authors we live in ‘the age of community’, an age characterized bythe need to belong to a meaningful social group (national, ethnic, religious, linguistic, etc.)which may give us a sense of shared identity and history (e.g. Anderson, 1983; Appadurai,1997; Castells, 1997; Hall, 1997).1 This research was conducted under the scope of the project “Identity Narratives and Social Memory: the (re)making ofLusophony in intercultural contexts”, Communication and Society Research Centre, University of Minho. This researchproject is supported by Science and Technology Foundation (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia), Portugal, and by FEDER,program Compete (PTDC/CCI-COM/105100/2008).
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