This article provides some code snippets that can be used to query user data on Facebook via Facebook Query Language. It also describes how to use the Graph URL Scheme if you'd prefer to explore using URLs in your browser and not with code. Very useful for conducting online and virtual ethnographic research that entails Facebook users and communities.

This is quite an amazing development, and only the tip of the iceberg when considering the wide array of mash-up possibilities that social graphs provide. While this project deals with place - check-ins at Foursquare - similar projects can be launched that incorporate a variety of data - from place-based opinion to micro-migration pathways and beyond.

As digital continues to influence behavioural change across all demographics and cultures, new tools and techniques are starting to allow greater access and insight into people's behaviours globally.

Watkins studies young people's social and digital media behaviors. He teaches at the University of Texas, Austin, in the departments of Radio-Television-Film, Sociology, and the Center for African and African American Studies. C.

Beautifully crafted timelines that are easy, and intuitive to use. Document History Connected: Timeline is also great for pulling in media from different sources. It has built in support for pulling in Tweets and media from Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo, Google Maps and SoundCloud. More media types will be supported in the future. Timeline is open source and could be quite useful for mashing together different types of content associated with ethnography projects.