YouTube-Based Accent Challenge Narratives: Web 2.0 as a Context for Studying the Social Value of Accent International Journal of Sociology of Language. Discussion Questions

#1 “The New York Times’ circulation of the survey and its subsequent recirculation via social media illustrates that many individuals are interested in descriptions of how they speak.” What are other reasons why this was so successful (the mass recirculation of the survey)? 

#2 One of the videos with the most views (~5000) only had about 27 comments. I was not able to look at the other videos as they have been deleted since publication, but you can imagine the videos with fewer views had fewer comments. What is the appropriate number (or in this case views) a published article should represent? What do the findings tell us if the sample size is so small? 

#3 Internet, specifically Twitter and YouTube comments seem to be hot right now, what can be done to filter out “trolls” when doing qualitative research?