Abstract
A significant part of the world’s population, as internet users, use digital technologies in their daily lives. Internet and digital technologies have turned into a platform where people both maintain their daily life practices and produce new social spaces. The rapid spread of the internet in the world and the new social fields created by social media tools have enabled social science researchers to accept this field as a research object. Researchers have incorporated every interaction on social media into social science research, similar to that in the real social world. On the one hand, this process has forced qualitative social science researchers to consider how they can apply their methodologies interactively with online tools. Some of the qualitative social science researchers get help from computer-assisted data analysis programs in the data analysis phase of their research. Due to different approaches, some of them prefer to stay away from digital technologies during the data collection phase. This study examines the situation of extending the methods of social science research in a digitalized world to include the digital social world (in the process of drawing and coding the expressions and content of social sharing networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram) and structuring them to include digital research techniques. The study, in general, discusses the deployment of grounded theory (GT) pattern with digital techniques. Therefore, the aim of this study, which is based on the traditional compilation method, is to show whether researchers can use digital technologies in the GT research process.