E-Research Collaboration of International Scope in Social and Political Sciences decrease of transportation costs and the processes of political regionalisation (such as the creation and promotion of the European Union), there has been an increase in international associations around disciplines or specific topics. In addition, there has been a proliferation of international meet- ings associated with these, such as the European Consortium of Political Research. In terms of e-research grouping collaboration of global scope, three typologies can be distin- guished: groups around a specific research project, large networks, and communities of researchers building or sharing a common goal. These three typologies of research collaboration will be pre- sented in more detail in the next section as part of the empirical analysis. METHODOLOGY network that builds connections around common interests (the Networked Politics collaborative network), and finally, a large community building and sharing a research commons, that is to say, a community (composed of a galaxy of individuals and research groups) that collaboratively builds and shares a common resource (Wikipedia research commons). Concerning empirical data, the use of "organic data" was privileged. "Organic data" refers to a collection of digital threads available online, or the observation of the public practices and dis- cussions that the cases generate in their daily on and offline lives without the researcher's external intervention. In using "organic data," the digital methods approach, which was based on "follow- ing the medium," was followed (Rogers, 2009). This contradicts the virtual method approach of trying to adapt already known methods of the study of online practices and methods, requiring