Inclusion criteria of the selection of the papers:
(1) The selected papers need to discuss about Myspace and
its users.
(2) The method of the selected papers needs to be
qualitative. The qualitative methods could be interview, openend
question in questionnaire, texture analysis and other
methods which are considered as qualitative method.
(3) The selected papers need to provide the issues that this
research could use to describe the users' preference, users'
behavior, or the problem that led to the fall of Myspace.
(4) The selected papers have to be published during 2006-
2012, since most of the research papers written about Myspace
were published during this period, as show in Figure 2.
(5) Two papers would be selected for each year. Hence, 14
papers were selected from the 7-years period of 2006 to 2012.
To select 2 papers per year would show the wider view
comparing with the finding of one single paper.
(6) The selected papers need to have "Myspace" in the title.
"A Place for Friends" is also allowed, because this phrase
refers to Myspace.
IV. RESULTS OF THE QUALITATIVE DATA COLLECTION
Qualitative method provides a flexible tool for the
researchers to collect the data. The researchers of the selected
papers mostly collected the data from Myspace users, and
some from the key informants. The tools found in the selected
paper are followings:
A. Interview
The selected papers show various types of interview. The
interview could be up to 30 minutes, and the in-depth
interview could be over 1 hour, which the researchers could
work with discourse analysis. In a selected paper, the
researcher let the experts describe the unclear data, which
he/she collected from the interview with Myspace users. This
phase of qualitative method could give an exact and deep
understanding of results.
One of the selected papers (Salimkhan, Manago&
Greenfield, 2010) showed a method of interview which is,
"Take a Tour". The interviewees would describe their profiles
along with answering the questions from the interviewers. For
this paper, male interviewer would interview male
interviewee, and vice versa. This is because, according to
Folch-Lyon and Trost (1981), the communication of the same
gender was more comfortable than the different-gender
communication.
B. Open-ended-question questionnaire
Open-ended-questions in the selected papers appear on both
paper questionnaire, online questionnaire and also on e-mail.
The open-ended questions could be used in e-mail for the
research about Myspace, because every Myspace user needed
to have an e-mail to register for a Myspace account. This is
how the e-mail was a convenient method for all Myspace
users.
C. Group Discussion
Group discussion normally appears in an actual place, such
as a room or a hall. Group discussion for the research about
online social network users could be different. One of the
researchers of the selected papers created chat rooms and
displayed them on Myspace page. This method was suitable
for Myspace users which normally spent their time online. The
data of this paper were collected from the youth of color with
HIV infection. Myspace could be the right tool to reach this
group of people. Danah Boyd (2006) wrote about the usage of
Myspace by working class group in "Viewing American Class
Divisions through Facebook and Myspace". This might be
possible that hard-to-reach populations would use Myspace as
the tool to communicate.
D. Textual Analysis
The researchers of some selected papers visited the profiles
and bulletin post of Myspace users which were selected
randomly. They labeled each material they found, and analyze
the conversational pattern and conflict to see users' selfdisclosures
and other users' behaviors