May 14, 2024
14/05/2024
Experiment - YouTube Comment Data Scraping
+ Decide on ideal platform for clustering ideas and notes. Tagging system clusters within a site like Tumblr.
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14/05/2024
Experiment - YouTube Comment Data Scraping
+ Decide on ideal platform for clustering ideas and notes. Tagging system clusters within a site like Tumblr.
08/05/2024
A small "eureka"! or "Brain blast!"
When reading the coding section of Kozinets data analysis entry in his book, I worried once again about my netnography. Is this even what I am doing? But i realised that I can 1) code youtube comments once I learn how to scrape them (if the website to scrape them is truly down) and I can 2) code across videos, both within a) a user and b) inter-user dialogues to see what is common and novel to be found. I need to re-look at the other observation techniques also mentioned by Danielle and: more importantly: need to chart a systematic viewing process to begin truly starting and watching my netnographic processes and beginning my research and coding.
Wendy McCai: Reflexive Thematic Analysis
03/05/2024
Not needing to scrape: wanting to scrape: scrape, scales, et al
So I did what I could from the netnography text which was: less than I had hoped as the YouTube scraping website mentioned (ytcomments.klostermann.ca) no longer exists - or may be simply temporarily down should I wish to be more optimistic about things.
The rest of the 'coding data' exercise presented in the book could be played with, however, and I have once again tried to play with NVivo. It is one of those cruel softwares that feels much smarter than I am (one would think I would be used to this by now). As is, I was digging around with saving the Netnography dataset as a PDF and letting Nvivo aut-collate code. It also spits out pretty graphics. Suddenly, without reading 15k YouTube comments, I have a clearer picture of what the 'Epcot' video may have been about:
01/05/2024
Going through the netnography text.
I will eventually need to make a smarter tagging system (or as netnographers love to call it - coding system) within my blog alone as I begin to build my proper netnography - which needs to start happening. It's the fifth month now - we are almost half way through the year. i should be almost half way through my netnography. It is time to critically re-examine my timetabling and re-assess how I am going to get things done in the timeline I wanted or anything close to it.
Kozinets has provided an exercise in his textbook to follow - P. 335 - Which I have time now to begin to look at.