This research seeks to understand how social media is used for finding, sharing, and creating information in ultrarunning. Interviews will be used to find out about ultrarunners experiences of using social media.
Ultrarunners who participate in the ultrarunning community on social media. I am interested in interviewing ruuners who regularly share content about ultrarunning as well as runners who use social media for information about running.
Other members of the ultrarunning community on social media such as coaches, sports therapists, nutritionists and race directors are also invited to participate.
Participants will be interviewed. The interview will be a conversation about your experiences as an ultrarunner, your experiences using social media, and how you create content about running. The questions will be open-ended, and you will have the opportunity to discuss other issues you feel are relevant to the subject in question.
This research has been reviewed and approved as part of the University of Sheffield’s Ethics Review Procedure.
All the information we collect about you during the research will be kept strictly confidential and will only be accessible to members of the research team. You will not be able to be identified in any reports or publications unless you have given your explicit consent for this. Full details about how your personal data will be processed, stored and deleted are available in the participant information sheet for this research.
You will be given a more detailed participant information sheet if you express interest in participating in the research. You will also be asked to sign a consent form.
You can contact Laura Williams by email at ljwilliams1@sheffield.ac.uk for more information about this research.
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