newms-research-design
Use when defending the research design of a New Media & Society (NM&S) manuscript — informant/site logic for interviews and digital ethnography, sampling and coding for content/discourse analysis, data construction and validation for computational work, and integration logic for mixed methods. NM&S judges each tradition on its own terms. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill newms-research-design --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Research Design (newms-research-design) NM&S welcomes many methods and is exacting about each. The design must credibly link the argument (`newms-theory-building`) to evidence and rule out the leading alternative reading. Pick the section matching your method; mixed-methods papers must satisfy both relevant sections *and* state how the strands talk to each other. ## When to trigger - Specifying sampling, case/site selection, coding, or data construction - A reviewer questioned generalization, selection, coding reliability, or scraping validity - Justifying why your design adjudicates the rival reading from `newms-literature-positioning` ## Qualitative — interviews / digital ethnography - **Informant and site selection justified theoretically**, not by access alone; state recruitment, positionality, and access conditions (e.g., joining a platform, gaining moderator trust). - **Depth, saturation, and negative cases**: how you know you have enough, and how disconfirming cases were sought and handled. - **Online specificity**: handle the blur of public/private space, pseudonymity, and the ethics of observing online communities (see `newms-transparency-and-data`). ## Content / discour
- When to trigger
- Qualitative — interviews / digital ethnography
- Content / discourse analysis
- Computational
- Mixed methods
- The adjudication test (NM&S-specific)
- What NM&S referees demand of each design
- Worked micro-example (illustrative)
- Referee pushback → NM&S-specific fix
- Calibration anchors
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the newms-research-design skill do?
Use when defending the research design of a New Media & Society (NM&S) manuscript — informant/site logic for interviews and digital ethnography, sampling and coding for content/discourse analysis, data construction and validation for computational work, and integration logic for mixed methods. NM&S judges each tradition on its own terms. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill newms-research-design --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.