In an era in which social life is increasingly played out online, innovative digital research methods are providing new ways of asking questions and generating data. But with exciting new opportunities come a number of complex challenges. In this podcast researchers from the NCRM-funded project <a href="http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/research/NMI/2012/digitalmethods.php">Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodologies</a> talk to Christine Garrington about a new network that is trying build capacity in the research community to address the opportunities and challenges that digitally inspired methods present for social research.