Theme 6: Qualitative and case study research - Reflection

This week we read two different research papers, one paper that is using qualitative methods and one that is using the case study research method. The paper I read about qualitative methods thought me that it is very hard to get perfect results on your research, because when you test/investigate different things people will always react/behave differently, because we are all unique. This is something that is very hard to work around so to speak, and it is good to have it in mind when using a qualitative method. The other paper using case study research actually gave me a better picture of what a case study is. It was a typical example, in my paper they sent out a survey to students at a university (limits the area) and they did research in different social media websites such as Twitter. During this weeks seminar (the last one) we talked about the case study papers we had read, and looked at the description the groups before us had written on KTH social. We all thought it was well written and we agreed to everything it said. It was a great description on what a case study is. This course have been interesting to follow, and I believe I have a broader perspective about different methods now, and it will be fun to see how I use this new knowledge in the future.