Unobtrusive research is a kind of research method we all use on an everyday basis. We probably do not even realize when we are performing unobtrusive research, but the following blogs are two simple yet common ways we execute unobtrusive research in our everyday lives. Social media is a tool that we most commonly use to perform our everyday unobtrusive research.
In Jessica's blog she discusses how she performed unobtrusive research in sports. By simply coming across an article on Yahoo! she was intrigued by the article and decided she wanted to know more about a specific player mentioned in the article, therefore she went on to do more research and find some blogs about the player. The blogs helped provide more insight on the questions Jessica had after seeing the initial article on Yahoo!. This is a great example of using social media to do unobtrusive research. Everyone is always interested in finding out the latest about their favorite sports teams and athletes and social media is one way of retrieving more information.
Francesca's blog is great at pointing out how there is basically a social media outlet that one can use to answer just about any questions you are looking to research. For example, if you are trying to find out what your friends or even celebrities are up to, you know that Twitter would be the perfect outlet to go to for such information. This is a form of unobtrusive research because you are not directly asking a person what they are doing, but instead you are using social media to find out on your own. Each social media outlet provides different kind of information, which makes it helpful when performing everyday unobtrusive research because you know which outlet to go to for which kind of information.
Social media is probably one of the most used sources for unobtrusive research these days.
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