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Seligmann, Linda J., and Brian P. Estes. "Innovations in Ethnographic Methods." American Behavioral Scientist 64, no. 2 (September 9, 2019): 176–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764219859640.
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This article reviews innovations in ethnographic methods that have developed over the past 25 years, specifically the emergence of multisited and short-term fieldwork, digital ethnography, various kinds of participatory and collaborative ethnography, and the use of interviews. Ethnographic methods, once primarily employed by anthropologists, have now been embraced by many other social science practitioners. The article discusses the strengths and weaknesses of how these methods are being implemented and applied; the ethical challenges their use raises; and the kinds of novel modes of interpretation, analysis, and representations of research findings they are producing.
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Sendler, Damian Jacob, and Michal Lew-Starowicz. "Digital Ethnography of Zoophilia — A Multinational Mixed-Methods Study." Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy 45, no. 1 (January 2, 2019): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0092623x.2018.1474405.
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Brooker, Phillip. "Computational ethnography: A view from sociology." Big Data & Society 9, no. 1 (January 2022): 205395172110698. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20539517211069892.
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This commentary elaborates on the ideas and projects outlined in this special issue, from a specifically sociological perspective. Much recent work in sociology proposes ‘methods mashups’ of ethnography and digital data/computational tools in different and diverse ways. However, typically, these have taken the form of applying (with or without tweaks) the principles of ethnography to new domains and data types, as if ethnography itself is stable and immutable; that it has a universal set of methodological principles that unify ethnographic practice. Returning to anthropology (whence, arguably, ethnography originally came) is, therefore, a useful way to extend our methodological thinking to (re)consider what ethnography is and how it operates, and from there think more clearly about how it may be effectively combined with digital data/computational tools in an emerging ‘Computational Anthropology’.
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Hahn, Allison. "Nomadic Digital Ethnography and Engagement." Nomadic Peoples 24, no. 2 (October 1, 2020): 299–311. http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/np.2020.240209.
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The availability of information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as cell phones, WIFI connections, and social media has broadly changed communication norms amongst mobile pastoralists. Scholars and development organisations have reported on the end results of digital tools, for example by examining the ability of governments and development organisations to send early-warning weather reports through enhanced cellular access; the use of SMS to engage in deliberative polling; and the use of WIFI connections to provide banking services. However, researchers have not yet fully addressed how these tools are changing the communicative norms and ethnographic research methods used between researchers and mobile pastoralists. These changing communicative norms embed relations that inform academic understanding of the opportunities that arise from the interplay of complex forms of social and economic variability as experienced by herders.<br/> This paper draws from the fields of Communication and Anthropology to understand how these same ICTs have changed the complex communication between herders and researchers through the establishment of new communicative networks. I ask how new communicative networks impact on both existing and emerging ethnographic research practices and how the emergent 'digital field' of research might open space for new communicative networks and research projects. Then, I propose that digital ethnography may be one way in which both herders and researchers can respond to variability while establishing research projects wherein herders are recognised both as participants in a research project and as co-producers of knowledge.
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Cottica, Alberto, Amelia Hassoun, Marco Manca, Jason Vallet, and Guy Melançon. "Semantic Social Networks: A Mixed Methods Approach to Digital Ethnography." Field Methods 32, no. 3 (March 12, 2020): 274–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1525822x20908236.
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We propose a mixed methods approach to digital ethnographic research. Treating online conversational environments as communities that ethnographers engage with as in traditional fieldwork, we represent those conversations and the codes made by researchers thereon in network form. We call these networks “semantic social networks” (SSNs), as they incorporate information on social interaction and their meaning as perceived by informants as a group and use methods from network science to visualize these ethnographic data. We present an application of this method to a large online conversation about community provision of health and social care and discuss its potential for mobilizing collective intelligence.
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Winarnita, Monika. "Digital Family Ethnography: Lessons from Fieldwork in Australia." Migration, Mobility, & Displacement 4, no. 1 (June 7, 2019): 105–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.18357/mmd41201918973.
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This article discusses the opportunities and constraints in using a digital family ethnography for qualitative studies amongst Indonesians in Australia. The frst half of the article highlights the opportunities that online and offine participant observation can provide in terms of understanding family transnational networks. Going beyond an ego-based narrative approach in interviews, digital family ethnography shows how social network analysis and refexivity can bring depth to a study on family by including the researcher’s position vis-à-vis the research participants. The second half of the article discusses challenges in using these combined online and offine methods and how these challenges might be mitigated in future studies. In particular, the article look at problems faced with interviews, multimedia usage, and social media analysis related to the researcher’s background and in working with different age groups. In the transnational family context, social media and electronic communication are critical parts of contemporary ethnographic methodologies, and the discussion thus centres on including online personhood in the research. The study concludes that although digital family ethnography methodologies have limitations, they can be used to account for the transforming relationships that make up family mobility.
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Zani, Beatrice. "Shall WeChat? Switching between online and offline ethnography." Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique 152, no. 1 (October 2021): 52–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/07591063211040229.
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Drawing on the ethnographic work conducted inside the digital platform WeChat, this article contributes to the ongoing discussion about the multi-sited ethnographic tools and the digital methods available for investigating virtual worlds and online practices. It analyses the communications, interactions, sociality, and economic activities produced on the application WeChat by Chinese migrant women, together with the same practices constructed offline in Taiwan. Taking a close look at the offline context from which these digital practices are generated, the article shows that when studying online practices, it is essential to understand what corresponds to them in the offline worlds. By updating the four Goffmanian interactionist fieldwork sequences, this research provides some reflections on the necessity to mix and merge online and offline ethnographic techniques in order to apprehend the new practices and scales of interaction at the crossroads where online and offline social spaces intersect. Virtual ethnography cannot be exclusive. Rather, it needs to be designed and performed in dialogue with ‘physical’ observations.
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Albris, Kristoffer, Eva I. Otto, Sofie L. Astrupgaard, Emilie Munch Gregersen, Laura Skousgaard Jørgensen, Olivia Jørgensen, Clara Rosa Sandbye, and Signe Schønning. "A view from anthropology: Should anthropologists fear the data machines?" Big Data & Society 8, no. 2 (July 2021): 205395172110436. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20539517211043655.
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If you are an anthropologist wanting to use digital methods or programming as part of your research, where do you start? In this commentary, we discuss three ways in which anthropologists can use computational tools to enhance, support, and complement ethnographic methods. By presenting our reflections, we hope to contribute to the stirring conversations about the potential future role(s) of (social) data science vis-a-vis anthropology and ethnography, and to inspire other anthropologists to take up the use of digital methods, programming, and computational tools in their own research.
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Fenton, Alex, Aleksej Heinze, McVal Osborne, and Wasim Ahmed. "How to Use the Six-Step Digital Ethnography Framework to Develop Buyer Personas: The Case of Fan Fit." JMIR Formative Research 6, no. 11 (November 25, 2022): e41489. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/41489.
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Background One of the key features of digital marketing is customer centricity, which can be applied to the domain of health. This is expressed through the ability to target specific customer segments with relevant content using appropriate channels and having data to track and understand each interaction. In order to do this, marketers create buyer personas based on a wide spectrum of quantitative and qualitative data. Digital ethnography is another established method for studying web-based communities. However, for practitioners, the complexity, rigor, and time associated with ethnographical work are sometimes out of reach. Objective This paper responds to the gaps in the practically focused method of using social media for digital ethnography to develop buyer personas. This paper aims to demonstrate how digital ethnography can be used as a way to create and refine buyer personas. Methods Using a case study of the Fan Fit smartphone app, which aimed to increase physical activity, a digital ethnography was applied to create a better understanding of customers and to create and refine buyer personas. Results We propose two buyer personas, and we develop a 6-step digital ethnography framework designed for the development of buyer personas. Conclusions The key contribution of this work is the proposal of a 6-step digital ethnography framework designed for the development of buyer personas. We highlight that the 6-step digital ethnography could be a robust tool for practitioners and academicians to analyze digital communications for the process of creating and updating data-driven buyer personas to create deeper insights into digital and health marketing efforts.
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Watson, Ash, and Deborah Lupton. "Remote Fieldwork in Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Video-Call Ethnography and Map Drawing Methods." International Journal of Qualitative Methods 21 (January 2022): 160940692210783. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/16094069221078376.
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Restrictions on physical movements and in-person encounters during the COVID-19 crisis confronted many qualitative researchers with challenges in conducting and completing projects requiring face-to-face fieldwork. An exploration of engaging in what we term ‘agile research’ in such circumstances can offer novel methodological insights for researching the social world. In this article, we discuss the changes we made to our ethnographic fieldwork in response to the introduction of a national lockdown to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. The ‘Living with Personal Data’ project, based in Sydney, Australia, and designed well before the advent of COVID-19, explores a diverse range of people’s feelings, practices and understandings concerning home-based digital devices and the personal digital data generated with their use. Using a video ethnography ‘home tour’ and an elicitation technique involving hand-drawn maps of people’s homes, digital devices and the personal data generated with and through these devices, this approach was designed to elicit the sensory, affective and relational elements of people’s digital device and personal data use at home. The fieldwork had just commenced when stay-at-home and physical distancing orders were suddenly introduced. Our article builds on and extends a growing body of literature on conducting fieldwork in the difficult conditions of the extended COVID-19 crisis by detailing our experiences of very quickly converting an ethnographic study that was planned to be in-person to a remote approach. We describe the adaptations we made to the project using video-call software and discuss the limits and opportunities presented by this significant modification.
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Esquinas, Antonio Silva, Rebeca Cordero Verdugo, Jorge Ramiro Pérez Suárez, and Daniel Briggs. "Observing Participants: Digital Ethnography in Online Dating Environments and the Cultivation of Online Research Identities." Journal of Extreme Anthropology 3, no. 1 (September 23, 2019): 135–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/jea.6931.
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This article offers a critical methodological reflection on how we undertook covert digital ethnographic research on Spanish young people and their use of online dating apps with a focus on the potential risk attached to using them. We were interested in showing how we approached the fieldwork, how we developed different research identities and how those identities were able to draw out raw data which reflected the risk attached to the online dating apps. While the project as a whole used a mixed-methods framework which also encompassed open-ended interviews and surveys, we provide a series of critical reflections attuned to digital ethnography. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to show how the methodological techniques cultivated ‘identities’ for our ethnographer that became effective in teasing out attitudes to risk and sexual exploration. We also hope that the paper can facilitate similar studies in the future, thus paving the way for other researchers. For this reason, we highlight the problems we encountered during the fieldwork and discuss the ethical issues related to this specific field.
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Baylosis, Cherry. "Mad Practices and Mobilities Bringing Voices to Digital Ethnography." Digital Culture & Society 3, no. 2 (December 20, 2017): 229–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/dcs-2017-0214.
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Abstract There is a claim that digital media technologies can give voice to the voiceless (Alper 2017). As Couldry (2008) points out it is now commonplace for people - who have never done so before - to tell, share and exchange stories within, and through digital media. Additionally, the affordances of mobile media technologies allow people to speak, virtually anytime and anywhere, while the new internet based media sees that these processes converge to allow stories, information, ideas and discourses to circulate through communicative spaces, and into the daily lives of people (Sheller/Urry 2006). The purpose of this paper is to discuss a methodological framework that can be used to examine the extent that digital media practices can enable voice. My focus is on people ascribed the status of mental illness - people who have had an enduring history of silencing and oppression (Parr 2008). I propose theories of mobilities, and practice, to critically examine voice in practices related to digital media. In doing this, I advocate for digital ethnographic methods to engage these concepts, and to examine the potential of voice in digital mobile media. Specifically, I outline ethnographic methods involving the use of video (re)enactments of digital practices, and the use of reflective interviews to examine every day routines and movements in and around digital media (Pink 2012). I propose that observing and reflecting on such activities can generate insights into the significance these activities have in giving voice to those who are normally unheard.
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Cartledge, Mark J. "Studying Digital Pentecostalism." Pneuma 44, no. 3-4 (December 20, 2022): 479–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700747-bja10073.
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Abstract One of the most important developments in recent history has been the invention of the internet and this has led to many academic disciplines developing digital research competence. However, there has been limited practical-theological research completed in the area of digitally mediated Pentecostalism. Therefore, this article addresses this important area, as conceived within the discipline of practical theology using empirical research methods. Even before the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, many Pentecostals had embraced an online delivery of worship and ministry. Nevertheless, the capacity for the digital mediation of beliefs and practices has developed considerably in 2020 and 2021, and these recent developments invite further critical attention. To develop competence in the study of digital Pentecostalism, practical theologians will be required to acquire competence in “virtual ethnography,” sometimes referred to as “netnography,” that is, the academic study of online communities, including online churches. As part of this competence, there is a need to reframe virtual ethnography within an empirical-theological approach as a subset of practical theology, and this includes attending to hermeneutical issues as well as technical competence (that is, methods of gathering and evaluating online data). In this article, I shall explore some of these methodological concerns and suggest ways in which scholars can develop approaches to the research of digital pentecostal and charismatic Christianity.
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Zaród, Marcin. "Tools of the game. Qualitative digital methodologies for the e-sports research." Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej 17, no. 1 (February 28, 2021): 26–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-8069.17.1.03.
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This article adopts methodology from digital qualitative studies in order to discuss issues specific to e-sport research in the sociology of sport. The applied concepts are built on a critical discussion of the existing theories and cases from the author’s fieldwork on e-sports among hackers. The employed theories and methods are taken from virtual ethnography, netnography, and digital ethnography. These approaches are discussed critically, especially regarding their relations with Science and Technology Studies and Communication and Media Studies.
The paper advocates acknowledging the cognitive approach from virtual ethnography, while dropping the approach to virtuality in favor of other theories of spatiality, with the theory of infrastructure as the backbone. It discusses the usability of Kozinets’ netnographical genres and their potential differences, but proposes a more practical solution to autonetnography. Finally, it shows how different frameworks in digital ethnography can be used in the context of e-sport research. The last part of the article is devoted to some practical advice based on discussions and practice.
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Gallagher, Kathleen, and Barry Freeman. "Multi-site ethnography, hypermedia and the productive hazards of digital methods: a struggle for liveness." Ethnography and Education 6, no. 3 (September 2011): 357–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2011.610586.
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Pchelkina, Daria Sergeevna. "Digital ethnography: methodological foundations in the cultural study of ethnic manifestation." Siberian Journal of Anthropology 5, no. 4 (2021): 25–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.31804/2542-1816-2021-5-4-25-33.
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Abstract The emergence and development of a global communication space leads to the transformation of the territorial and social structures of society, both on a global scale and in relation to a single territory, which in turn transforms the cultural system in general and ethnic culture in particular. Marshall McLuhan, one of the main theorists of the field of new media, stated about such transformations back in 1964, defining modern culture as a culture based on electricity, and also stating that due to the limitless development of information, people become involved in each other's affairs at the level of involvement in their own problems. The article is of an overview nature. It is devoted to the consistent consideration of some classical (despite its short history of the development of the direction at the moment) and modern theories of digital ethnography, conceptual and methodological approaches, the main provisions of the study of ethnic manifestation. The article also focuses on the potential of online communities as a space for the representation of ethnic identity and its manifestation, presented today in an interactive environment. It is noted that the ethnic manifestation formed in the Internet sphere is constructed based on the degree of mediation and remediation of the individual and the entire ethno-cultural group. It is important to note that the self-representation of indigenous peoples in the interactive space sometimes becomes the only possible option for them. Digital ethnographic research is carried out faster chronologically and richer in terms of immersion in the object of research. The key problems of ethnographic methods are considered to be distrust of the researcher due to the novelty of the scientific field, a wary attitude to empirical material in cyberethnography – data collection in online communities causes skepticism, as far as the received array of information can be considered empirical material.
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Møller, Kristian, and Brady Robards. "Walking Through, Going Along and Scrolling Back." Nordicom Review 40, s1 (June 28, 2019): 95–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/nor-2019-0016.
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Abstract Spatial metaphors have long been part of the way we make sense of media. From early conceptualizations of the internet, we have come to understand digital media as spaces that support, deny or are subject to different mobilities. With the availability of GPS data, somatic bodily movement has enjoyed significant attention in media geography, but recently innovations in digital ethnographic methods have paid attention to other, more ephemeral ways of moving and being with social media. In this article, we consider three case studies in qualitative, “small data” social media research methods: the walkthrough, the go-along and the scroll back methods. Each is centred on observing navigational flows through app infrastructures, fingers hovering across device surfaces and scrolling-and-remembering practices in social media archives. We advocate an ethnography of ephemeral media mobilities and suggest that small data approaches should analytically integrate four dimensions of mediated mobility: bodies and affect, media objects and environments, memory and narrative, and the overall research encounter.
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Schüler-Costa, Vlad. "A case study on the usage of social network analysis to complement participant observation on Twitter." Simbiótica 8, no. 4 (January 15, 2022): 71–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.47456/simbitica.v8i4.37347.
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Based on digital ethnography conducted between 2013 and 2015 on the social network service Twitter, this article develops a theoretical-methodological discussion on the usage of data mining and network visualisation as a “quantitative” complement to the “qualitative” approach of participant observation. Starting from a literature review, this article argues that ethnography, from its beginnings, has been open to “quantitative” research. This article also tackles the anthropological origins of terminology and methodology regarding social network analysis, thus recovering the anthropological interest on the subject. Finally, based on an empirical case study, this article shows a possible usage of such methods as a way to enrich ethnographic analysis. Keywords: social anthropology; digital ethnography; network analysis; methodology. Resumen Basado en una etnografía digital conducida entre 2013 y 2015 en el servicio de red social Twitter, este artículo desenvuelve una discusión teórica-metodológica sobre el uso de la minería de datos y la visualización de redes como complemento “cuantitativo” al enfoque “cualitativo” de la observación participante. A partir de una revisión bibliográfica, sostiene que la etnografía, desde sus inicios, ha estado abierta a la investigación “cuantitativa”. Este artículo también aborda los orígenes antropológicos de la terminología y la metodología del análisis de redes sociales, recuperando así el interés antropológico por el tema. Por último, basándose en un estudio de caso empírico, demuestra un posible uso de dichos métodos como forma de enriquecer el análisis etnográfico. Palabras-clave: antropología social; etnografía digital; análisis de red; metodología. Resumo Baseado em etnografia digital conduzida entre 2013 e 2015 no serviço de rede social Twitter, este artigo desenvolve uma discussão teórico-metodológica sobre o uso de mineração de dados e visualização de redes como complemento “quantitativo” à abordagem “qualitativa” da observação participante. Partindo de uma revisão bibliográfica, argumenta que a etnografia, desde seus primórdios, esteve aberta a pesquisa “quantitativa”. Este artigo também aborda as origens antropológicas da terminologia e da metodologia de análise de redes sociais, recuperando, portanto, o interesse antropológico no tema. Por fim, baseado em um estudo de caso empírico, demonstra uma possível utilização de tais métodos como forma de enriquecer a análise etnográfica. Palavras-chave: antropologia social; etnografia digital; análise de redes; metodologia.
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Richardson, Ingrid, and Larissa Hjorth. "Mobile media, domestic play and haptic ethnography." New Media & Society 19, no. 10 (July 7, 2017): 1653–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444817717516.
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In this article, we explore the material, sensory and corporeal aspects of digital ethnography, primarily in the context of mobile media use in the domestic environment. We align our methodological approach to the ‘sensory turn’ in theory, situated loosely under the rubric of new materialism, and outline the insights that a post-phenomenological method can offer. Drawing from our current research into everyday media use conducted within Australian households, which involved a range of data collection methods aimed at capturing the embodiment of mobile media, we explore the significance of play in and around haptic interfaces. Mobile games are evidently integral to our embodied ways of knowing, and there are a number of challenges faced by the mobile media researcher who seeks to document, understand and interpret this contemporary cultural and everyday practice.
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Jordan, Brigitte. "Blurring Boundaries: The "Real" and the "Virtual" in Hybrid Spaces." Human Organization 68, no. 2 (May 30, 2009): 181–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/humo.68.2.7x4406g270801284.
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This chapter introduces a sequence of four papers that focus on the theme of knowledge and information flow in hybrid and virtual sites of interaction. As the Internet and the World Wide Web proliferate, people live increasingly hybrid lives where the physical and the digital, the real and the virtual, interact. In this world, online and offline identities may overlap and interdigitate, erasing prior boundaries in social, cultural, linguistic, political, and economic domains. My central argument proposes that we are witnessing an underlying process of technology-spurred blurring, resulting in major shifts in the cultural landscape of the 21st century. Providing context for the papers, I argue that the blurring of boundaries and the fusion of the real and the virtual in hybrid settings may require rethinking conventional ethnographic methods in the future, and beyond that, the actual problem space for anthropology. To frame the papers methodologically, I suggest that we are in a process of experimentation during which conventional ethnographic methods are being adjusted, or will need to be adjusted, to the requirements of a truly hybrid ethnography, i.e., one that combines research in virtual and real-world spaces. I specifically examine some of the issues that arise in and for online and offline research, gauging the impact on core concepts in anthropological ethnography such as "fieldsite" and "participant observation."
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Kaoukaou, Mahjouba. "Netnography: towards a new sociological approach of qualitative research in the digital age." SHS Web of Conferences 119 (2021): 01006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202111901006.
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This paper tackles the question of netnography in the digital age. The shifts that the world has known during these last decades lead to the emergence of a new paradigm. The research in digital studies raises today many issues about the notions and the methods that we should use in this new field of study. We aim from our research to contribute to this current scientific discussion through a main question that we intend to address in our paper, and which we can formulate as follows: what is the nature of the criteria and the characteristics which make netnography a different method than ethnography? And if the subject of study in this practice is virtual and geographically undetermined, how can the researcher limit it, and how can he address it scientifically? Our goal from this paper is to unveil the specificity of netnography as a new notion and a new practice in sociology. So, we will formulate our perception of this concept by demarcating the lines between it and the other notions which intersect with it, namely, ethnography.
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Darley, Andrew, Rachael Dix, Elena Rocher, Diarmuid Stokes, and Áine Carroll. "Older adults and family caregivers’ experience of digital health technology in frailty care: A systematic review and meta-ethnography protocol." HRB Open Research 5 (August 18, 2022): 38. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13549.2.
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Background: Digital health technology has been identified as a valuable tool to support older adults with frailty needs in their home setting. Despite the numerous technologies and evaluations of these innovations, a synthesis of the older person and family caregivers’ experience using technology for support self-management has not been conducted to date. Methods and analysis: A systematic review and meta-ethnography will be conducted in accordance with the PRISMA and eMERGe reporting guidelines. Four peer-reviewed empirical evidence databases will be searched (Medline (Ovid), CINAHL, EMBASE, PsycINFO) using a defined search strategy. Studies containing qualitative data on the experiences of older people or family caregivers of using digital health technology to support frailty care will be included. Covidence software will be used to screen studies and extract data. The Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) checklist for qualitative research will be used by two independent reviewers to appraise all included papers. A meta-ethnography will be undertaken in accordance with the seven-phase method described by Noblit and Hare: (1) Getting started, (2) Deciding what is relevant to the initial interest, (3) Reading the studies, (4) Determining how the studies are related, (5) Translating the studies into one another, (6) Synthesizing translations and (7) Expressing the synthesis. Discussion: To the best of our knowledge, this will be the first systematic review to integrate and synthesize the findings of qualitative studies of older citizens’ experience of digital health technology. The findings of this meta-ethnography will endeavour to inform future research, policy and clinical practice. In particular, the results will help to inform the design of future digital health technology to meet the needs of older adults. PROSPERO registration number: CRD42022314608.
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Darley, Andrew, Rachael Dix, Elena Rocher, Diarmuid Stokes, and Áine Carroll. "Older adults and family caregivers’ experience of digital health technology in frailty care: A systematic review and meta-ethnography protocol." HRB Open Research 5 (May 13, 2022): 38. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13549.1.
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Background: Digital health technology has been identified as a valuable tool to support older adults with frailty needs in their home setting. Despite the numerous technologies and evaluations of these innovations, a synthesis of the older person and family caregivers’ experience using technology for support self-management has not been conducted to date. Methods and analysis: A systematic review and meta-ethnography will be conducted in accordance with the PRISMA and eMERGe reporting guidelines. Four peer-reviewed empirical evidence databases will be searched (Medline (Ovid), CINAHL, EMBASE, PsycINFO) using a defined search strategy. Studies containing qualitative data on the experiences of older people or family caregivers of using digital health technology to support frailty care will be included. Covidence software will be used to screen studies and extract data. The Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) checklist for qualitative research will be used by two independent reviewers to appraise all included papers. A meta-ethnography will be undertaken in accordance with the seven-phase method described by Noblit and Hare: (1) Getting started, (2) Deciding what is relevant to the initial interest, (3) Reading the studies, (4) Determining how the studies are related, (5) Translating the studies into one another, (6) Synthesizing translations and (7) Expressing the synthesis. Discussion: To the best of our knowledge, this will be the first systematic review to integrate and synthesize the findings of qualitative studies of older citizens’ experience of digital health technology. The findings of this meta-ethnography will endeavour to inform future research, policy and clinical practice. In particular, the results will help to inform the design of future digital health technology to meet the needs of older adults. PROSPERO registration number: Submitted 05/04/2022 and currently under review.
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Gubrium, Aline, and Krista Harper. "Visualizing Change: Participatory Digital Technologies in Research and Action." Practicing Anthropology 31, no. 4 (September 1, 2009): 2–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.31.4.t6w103r320507394.
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New visual technologies are changing the ways that anthropologists do research and opening up new possibilities for participatory approaches appealing to diverse audiences. Participatory digital methodologies featured in this special issue include digital storytelling, Photovoice, interactive multimedia as new media ethnography, participatory digital archival research, and participatory geographic information systems (GIS). Other methodologies involving participatory digital methodologies that are gaining traction in anthropology include community-based filmmaking (Biella 2006) and collaborative blogging and website production (Hess 2001; Young 2007). Research participants are producing digital representations of their experiences, taking and sharing pictures, and mapping their own environments. These methodologies produce rich visual and narrative data guided by participant interests and priorities, putting the methods literally in the hands of the participants themselves. They appeal to wide audiences, allowing for access to and production of anthropological knowledge beyond the academy.
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Sirola, Noora, Ulla-Maija Sutinen, Elina Närvänen, Nina Mesiranta, and Malla Mattila. "Mottainai!—A Practice Theoretical Analysis of Japanese Consumers’ Food Waste Reduction." Sustainability 11, no. 23 (November 25, 2019): 6645. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11236645.
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This study focuses on food waste and its reduction by describing and analyzing the food waste-related everyday life of Japanese consumers through a practice theoretical lens. The research enables paying attention to the role of culture in sustainable consumer behavior, which is a largely unexplored area in previous food waste research. The methodological approach is qualitative and the empirical data of the study were generated through mobile ethnography. It combines elements from diary methods, multi-sited ethnography, and digital ethnography, producing visual and textual data of the practices that the participants of the study considered meaningful. The analysis identifies materials, meanings, and competences of the practices related to food waste reduction. These practices were interlinked with five broader food-related practices: planning, grocery shopping, cooking, eating, and handling surplus food. The findings reveal specific elements related to Japanese culture such as mottainai—a concept used to express the regret of wasting something valuable. The study contributes to the literature on sustainable consumption by emphasizing the importance of identifying and understanding how culturally linked practices may support sustainable (or unsustainable) consumption.
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Orabueze, Florence, Henrietta Ifeoma Okafor, Uche Uwaezuoke Okonkwo, Mbefo Marydoreen Chinonso, and Obiorah Ekwueme. "Methods and techniques of teaching English and German classes in Nigeria during the Covid-19 pandemic era." XLinguae 14, no. 1 (January 2021): 91–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.18355/xl.2021.14.01.08.
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We want to infer that language teachers in Nigeria resorted to digital modes of teaching language processes during the COVID-19 era as maintaining social distancing became of paramount importance and the lockdown was implemented by the government of different nations. This study is predicated on the prevalent methods and techniques employed in teaching English and German language processes in the COVID-19 era in Nigeria. The digital methods and techniques have their accompanying challenges, especially in the knowledge delivery of the two foreign languages. Data was collected by interviewing 22 students of some private universities through Focus Group Discussions (FGD 1, 2, and 3) and also using social media/online publications as well as newspapers using qualitative descriptive paradigm. The choice of students of private universities is because the governmentowned ones are on strike under the umbrella of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The theoretical framework for this study is Ethnography of communication. The participant observation method will be adopted in the framework of analysis of this paper. By the end of this study, we would have established that though there are several techniques and methods of teaching language processes, digital modes became the new normal for language teachers as they were the most used.
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Nikolaenko, G. A., and A. A. Fedorova. "Non-Reactive Strategy: Unobtrusive Methods of Gathering Sociological Information in Web 2.0 Age — Evidence from Digital Ethnography and Big Data." Sociology of Power 29, no. 4 (December 2017): 36–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/2074-0492-2017-4-36-54.
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Lanson, Klare. "TouchOn/TouchOff." Digital Culture & Society 5, no. 1 (December 1, 2019): 165–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/dcs-2019-0110.
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Abstract This article reflects upon a mobile art ethnography that sought to understand and rethink some of the tensions around regional/rural experiences of the digital. Using creative practice-based methods, it provides new insights into this regional/urban divide through the motif of working mother commuter as digital wayfarer, a term used to define on/offline digital entanglement through the lived experience of quotidian wayfaring. It contributes to debates around mobile communication and mobile media studies by connecting conceptual analysis of mobilities and its relationship to regional commuting with a creative approach to movement, play and a sense of place. Much of the academic research on mobile media and internet studies stems from an urban focus rather than engaging in the unevenness of the online as is much of the experience in the rural region of North Central Victoria, Australia. Being a working mother commuter for almost a decade, the researcher also took an autobiographical approach to aspects of this project through the lens of digital wayfaring. The artefact used ethnographic case study methods and is a creative non/ fiction sound and moving imagery work made using the mobile phone, within the context of the regional Vline train. Utilising sonified global positioning system (GPS) data as part of the soundscape, it addressed problems in the production of this train activity (i. e. work, creativity, play, rest and playbour) regarding social and material participation of the commute infrastructure and overlaid internet connections. It showed how multisensorial art-making highlights the commute to be a journey to and from - and of - work, within the ecology of the Vline train, and therefore provides new ways of perceiving this copresent, mediated and entangled digital experience.
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Canfell, Oliver J., Yasaman Meshkat, Zack Kodiyattu, Teyl Engstrom, Wilkin Chan, Jayden Mifsud, Jason D. Pole, Martin Byrne, Ella Van Raders, and Clair Sullivan. "Understanding the Digital Disruption of Health Care: An Ethnographic Study of Real-Time Multidisciplinary Clinical Behavior in a New Digital Hospital." Applied Clinical Informatics 13, no. 05 (October 2022): 1079–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1758482.
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Abstract Background Understanding electronic medical record (EMR) implementation in digital hospitals has focused on retrospective “work as imagined” experiences of multidisciplinary clinicians, rather than “work as done” behaviors. Our research question was “what is the behavior of multidisciplinary clinicians during the transition to a new digital hospital?” Objectives The aim of the study is to: (1) Observe clinical behavior of multidisciplinary clinicians in a new digital hospital using ethnography. (2) Develop a thematic framework of clinical behavior in a new digital hospital. Methods The setting was the go-live of a greenfield 182-bed digital specialist public hospital in Queensland, Australia. Participants were multidisciplinary clinicians (allied health, nursing, medical, and pharmacy). Clinical ethnographic observations were conducted between March and April 2021 (approximately 1 month post-EMR implementation). Observers shadowed clinicians in real-time performing a diverse range of routine clinical activities and recorded any clinical behavior related to interaction with the digital hospital. Data were analyzed in two phases: (1) content analysis using machine learning (Leximancer v4.5); (2) researcher-led interpretation of the text analytics to generate contextual meaning and finalize themes. Results A total of 55 multidisciplinary clinicians (41.8% allied health, 23.6% nursing, 20% medical, 14.6% pharmacy) were observed across 58 hours and 99 individual patient encounters. Five themes were derived: (1) Workflows for clinical documentation; (2) Navigating a digital hospital; (3) Digital efficiencies; (4) Digital challenges; (5) Patient experience. There was no observed harm attributable to the digital transition. Clinicians primarily used blended digital and paper workflows to achieve clinical goals. The EMR was generally used seamlessly. New digital workflows affected clinical productivity and caused frustration. Digitization enabled multitasking, clinical opportunism, and benefits to patient safety; however, clinicians were hesitant to trust digital information. Conclusion This study improves our real-time understanding of the digital disruption of health care and can guide clinicians, managers, and health services toward digital transformation strategies based upon “work as done.”
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Elvinaro, Qintannajmia, and Dede Syarif. "Generasi Milenial dan Moderasi Beragama: Promosi Moderasi Beragama oleh Peace Generation di Media Sosial." JISPO Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik 11, no. 2 (February 6, 2022): 195–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.15575/jispo.v11i2.14411.
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After its launching in 2019, the religious moderation program has taken on conventional methods of religious gathering, seminar, and discussion, whereas the millennial generation, one of main targets of this campaign, are active social media users and unacquainted with these methods. Employing virtual ethnography with a digital observation to social media platform and online interview, this paper aims to investigate the religious moderation program in digital sphere as a strategy to counter radicalism that circulate in the virtual sphere. By focusing its analysis on the digital messages on religious moderation circulated digitally by the Peace Generation movement, this paper argues that religious moderation campaign targeting millennial group should be implemented in media which millennial generation are accustomed to such as social media. The application of social media in religious moderation campaign is not only strategic in distributing the messages but also an attractive method in providing accessible alternative content for the millennial generation.
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Cangas, Svetlana, and Elena Florea-Burduja. "DIGITAL REVITALIZATION OF POPULAR PORT PRODUCTS." Journal of Social Sciences 5, no. 3 (October 2022): 168–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.52326/jss.utm.2022.5(3).13.
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Restoring and revitalizing popular port products is a long-term process. The time workmanship for making a shirt by an experienced craftswoman lasts about from six to nine months. Various studies of the folk costume often require the restoration of the product. The need for restoration is imposed by: the analysis and study of the cooperation of embroidery elements with the form of product offered by shirts of different types; analysis and adaptation of the shape of the shirt to the conformation of the wearer; analysis of the form and assembly methods offered by the cut schemes; restoration of cut landmarks and schemes with immediate simulation on the mannequin of museum products (Republic of Moldova); analysis and adaptation of these products to carrier conformation parameters; identification of conformation parameters, etc. The advanced level of contemporary digital technologies allows us in reduced time to simulate the product form without waste accumulations and the destruction of raw material resources. In this work will be presented the results offered by the digital simulation of the products of folk costumes, vestiges of the cultural heritage from the Museum of History and Ethnography, Hancesti city. You also have the connection possibilities of digital technologies and technologies used in the manufacture of popular port products.
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Robinson, Anna, Umay Oksuz, Robert Slight, Sarah Slight, and Andrew Husband. "Digital and Mobile Technologies to Promote Physical Health Behavior Change and Provide Psychological Support for Patients Undergoing Elective Surgery: Meta-Ethnography and Systematic Review." JMIR mHealth and uHealth 8, no. 12 (December 1, 2020): e19237. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/19237.
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Background Digital technology has influenced many aspects of modern living, including health care. In the context of elective surgeries, there is a strong association between preoperative physical and psychological preparedness, and improved postoperative outcomes. Health behavior changes made in the pre- and postoperative periods can be fundamental in determining the outcomes and success of elective surgeries. Understanding the potential unmet needs of patients undergoing elective surgery is central to motivating health behavior change. Integrating digital and mobile health technologies within the elective surgical pathway could be a strategy to remotely deliver this support to patients. Objective This meta-ethnographic systematic review explores digital interventions supporting patients undergoing elective surgery with health behavior changes, specifically physical activity, weight loss, dietary intake, and psychological support. Methods A literature search was conducted in October 2019 across 6 electronic databases (International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews [PROSPERO]: CRD42020157813). Qualitative studies were included if they evaluated the use of digital technologies supporting behavior change in adult patients undergoing elective surgery during the pre- or postoperative period. Study quality was assessed using the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme tool. A meta-ethnographic approach was used to synthesize existing qualitative data, using the 7 phases of meta-ethnography by Noblit and Hare. Using this approach, along with reciprocal translation, enabled the development of 4 themes from the data. Results A total of 18 studies were included covering bariatric (n=2, 11%), cancer (n=13, 72%), and orthopedic (n=3, 17%) surgeries. The 4 overarching themes appear to be key in understanding and determining the effectiveness of digital and mobile interventions to support surgical patients. To successfully motivate health behavior change, technologies should provide motivation and support, enable patient engagement, facilitate peer networking, and meet individualized patient needs. Self-regulatory features such as goal setting heightened patient motivation. The personalization of difficulty levels in virtual reality–based rehabilitation was positively received. Internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy reduced depression and distress in patients undergoing cancer surgery. Peer networking provided emotional support beyond that of patient-provider relationships, improving quality of life and care satisfaction. Patients expressed the desire for digital interventions to be individually tailored according to their physical and psychological needs, before and after surgery. Conclusions These findings have the potential to influence the future design of patient-centered digital and mobile health technologies and demonstrate a multipurpose role for digital technologies in the elective surgical pathway by motivating health behavior change and offering psychological support. Through the synthesis of patient suggestions, we highlight areas for digital technology optimization and emphasize the importance of content tailored to suit individual patients and surgical procedures. There is a significant rationale for involving patients in the cocreation of digital health technologies to enhance engagement, better support behavior change, and improve surgical outcomes.
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Rodés-Paragarino, Virginia, and Adriana Gewerc-Barujel. "Ownership and Agency in the adoption of Open Educational Resources." Interaction Design and Architecture(s), no. 45 (August 20, 2020): 69–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-045-003.
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The widespread focus on ownership in the field of OER refers to the ownership of copyright, and the way to open sharing and publishing, as an intrinsic and defining characteristic. Based on a Grounded Theory study, along with Biographical Methods and Digital Ethnography, the article proposes moving from the perspective of OER as open content sharing, to a broader conceptualization that encompasses emotional ownership, ownership in of curriculum change, and teachers’ agency in the development of the curriculum as key factors for OER adoption.
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Mauro, Max. "The Man With the Leaking Bucket: Ethnography, Journalism, and the Quest for the Transformative Self." Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies 20, no. 6 (November 19, 2019): 515–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1532708619886337.
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This article looks into the status and identity of ethnography by paying attention to the ideas of transformation and becoming, and to the meanings of “reality” in post postmodern times. Based on a personal reflection about the intellectual journey of the author, and his transition from journalism to academic research, it first provides an illustration of the complicated relationship between journalism, and journalistic practices, with social research during the 20th century. It highlights the trailblazing work of German–Jewish intellectual Siegfried Kracauer during the Weimar years, whose eclectic attention to popular culture and social theory has been for a long time overlooked. Following the postmodern turn, reflexivity has taken center stage in ethnographic methods, but this has not diminished the differences within social sciences and humanities in the way the subject, the researcher, is perceived and interpreted. A contested area of debate remains that of representation, and particularly, the realization that nothing meaningfully exists outside the process of representation. However, this point is further complicated by the status of “reality” in the age of the implosion of social life through the conflation of the private and the public brought about by the digital revolution.
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Kopciewicz, Lucyna, and Hussein Bougsiaa. "Bring your own device or organisation provided device classroom: problematising the issue of the digital divide in teaching and learning contexts in Poland." International Journal of Pedagogy, Innovation and New Technologies 6, no. 2 (December 30, 2019): 51–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.6838.
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This comparative study contributes to new knowledge on how digital inclusion can be supported in two differently designed school settings through the meaningful use of technology to enhance the students’ learning and their overall skills development. This study is a comparative, empirically grounded case research conducted over a one year period in two primary schools in Poland. Our research involved a number of methods, including video-ethnography and interviews, which were used to gather qualitative data from headteachers, teachers, students and parents. The results problematise the issues of the digital divide in teaching and learning practices in both formal and informal contexts. We have checked in what way both OPD and BYOD influence the existing divides in the area of learning processes.
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Housley, William, and Robin James Smith. "Innovation and Reduction in Contemporary Qualitative Methods: The Case of Conceptual Coupling, Activity-Type Pairs and Auto-Ethnography." Sociological Research Online 15, no. 4 (November 2010): 36–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.2216.
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During the course of this paper we mobilise an ideal typical framework that identifies three waves of reduction within contemporary qualitative inquiry as they relate to key aspects of the sociological tradition. The paper begins with a consideration of one of sociology's key questions; namely how is social organisation possible? The paper aims to demonstrate how this question moves from view as increased specialisation and differentiation in qualitative methodology within sociology and related disciplines results in a fragmentation and decontextualisation of social practices from social orders. Indeed, the extent to which qualitative methods have been detached from sociological principles is considered in relation to the emergence of a reductionist tendency. The paper argues that the first wave is typified by conceptual couplings such as ‘discourse and the subject’, ‘narrative and experience’, ‘space and place’ and the second by ‘activity type couplings’ such as ‘walking and talking’ and ‘making and telling’ and then, finally, the third wave exemplified through auto-ethnography and digital lifelogging. We argue each of these three waves represent a series of steps in qualitative reduction that, whilst representing innovation, need to reconnect with questions of action, order and social organisation as a complex whole as opposed to disparate parts.
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Sumiala, Johanna, and Anu A. Harju. "“No More Apologies”: Violence as a Trigger for Public Controversy over Islam in the Digital Public Sphere." Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture 8, no. 1 (March 20, 2019): 132–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/21659214-00801007.
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This article investigates how violence associated with religion, here namely Islam, functions as a trigger for public controversy in the Turku stabbings that took place in Finland in 2017. We begin by outlining the Lyotard-Habermas debate on controversy and compound this with current research on the digital public sphere. We combine cartography of controversy with digital media ethnography as methods of collecting data and discourse analysis for analysing the material. We investigate how the controversy triggered by violence is constructed around Islam in the public sphere of Twitter. We identify three discursive strategies connecting violence and Islam in the debates around the Turku stabbings: scapegoating, essentialisation, and racialisation. These respectively illustrate debates regarding blame for terrorism, the nature of Islam, and racialisation of terrorist violence and the Muslim Other. To conclude, we reflect on the ways in which the digital public sphere impacts Habermasian consensus- and Lyotardian dissensus-oriented argumentation.
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Lin, Zhongxuan, and Yupei Zhao. "Towards SoMoLo journalism and SoMoLo activism: case studies of Macau netizens’ digital practices." Media International Australia 173, no. 1 (October 2, 2018): 93–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x18798694.
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The emergence and convergence of social, mobile and locative technologies have inspired scholars to develop the concept of ‘SoMoLo’ to study the changing forms of journalism and activism in this new context. This study therefore attempts to further develop this concept, rejuvenating the older ‘media and movement’ tradition and especially the ‘journalism and activism’ relationship to explore how and why SoMoLo journalism coexists interdependently with SoMoLo activism. Based on the research methods of virtual ethnography and interviews, we used Macau netizens’ digital practices as case studies to explain how SoMoLo journalism led to SoMoLo activism and its implications for Macau. We believe that this type of ‘local knowledge’ for Macau may reveal possible particularities and diversities of journalism and activism that may be valuable in a global context.
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Dempsey, Sean, Bailey Holloway, Kyra Chambers, Shannon Hecker, Ming Draper, Julia Gallant, Jag Kang, Trevor Lamb, Marlee Stewart, and Tara Joly. "Assessing Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Anthropological Research Methods." Pathways 2, no. 1 (October 20, 2021): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/pathways20.
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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, there is a need to understand how the pandemic has influenced anthropological research. This paper presents the results of a research project examining these changes and the challenges anthropologists have faced in carrying out their research methods during the first eight months of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the University of Northern British Columbia in the Fall semester of 2020, undergraduate students led this project and conducted five virtual, semi-structured interviews with socio-cultural anthropologists across Canada, from a variety of career stages and with diverse research approaches. Interview participants described virtual research methods involving a heavy reliance on video conferencing and digitally available resources, benefits and challenges of remote and digital ethnography, changes to immersion and the spatial-temporal aspects of communication, and outcomes of adopting new technologies. The pandemic affected these anthropologists to varying degrees depending on the location of their field site and their career stage. Despite adaptations and challenges, interview participants also offered hopeful commentary on potential long-term changes in the discipline as the pandemic forces anthropologists to rethink the ways in which we conduct our work.
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Flick, Uwe. "The Concepts of Qualitative Data: Challenges in Neoliberal Times for Qualitative Inquiry." Qualitative Inquiry 25, no. 8 (November 18, 2018): 713–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800418809132.
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Qualitative inquiry always used various kinds of data for understanding social issues and participants’ perspectives. Research and methodologies were debated for what data are adequate for studying social justice issues. Current challenges for concepts of data are new, for example, virtual and digital data, question traditional data (interviews, ethnography, etc.) in their relevance for understanding current life worlds. New methods produce new and other forms of data (e.g., mobile, virtual data). Neoliberal contexts produce questions about qualitative research and its data. What is an adequate and contemporary understanding of the concept of “data”? These questions are discussed in this special issue.
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Anderson, Bissie. "Introduction to Standard Issue." Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network 13, no. 2 (November 2, 2020): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.31165/nk.2020.132.631.
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This standard issue features six contributions from postgraduate and early career scholars working at the intersections of media, communications, education, sociology, and technoculture. The articles differ in their objects of inquiry – from sound in digital games, social networking sites, and digital technology in education, to broadcast journalism and romantic comedies, but they broadly converge around a common focus on temporality and time. Between them, the contributions present a good mix of empirical work and significant conceptual development, moving forward theoretical debates in the fields of media and communications. Concepts are either developed, through in-depth engagement with the extant literature (Amaral 2020; Martins & Piaia 2020), or tested through empirical studies using a variety of methods – from surveys (De Andrade & Calixto 2020) to digital ethnography (Polivanov & Santos 2020) to participant observation and interviews (Gomes, Vizeu, & de Oliveira 2020). In some cases, altogether innovative methodological approaches for analysing artefacts are proposed, as in Luersen and Kilpp (2020), whose article opens this standard issue of the journal.
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Shilton, Katie, Emanuel Moss, Sarah A. Gilbert, Matthew J. Bietz, Casey Fiesler, Jacob Metcalf, Jessica Vitak, and Michael Zimmer. "Excavating awareness and power in data science: A manifesto for trustworthy pervasive data research." Big Data & Society 8, no. 2 (July 2021): 205395172110407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20539517211040759.
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Frequent public uproar over forms of data science that rely on information about people demonstrates the challenges of defining and demonstrating trustworthy digital data research practices. This paper reviews problems of trustworthiness in what we term pervasive data research: scholarship that relies on the rich information generated about people through digital interaction. We highlight the entwined problems of participant unawareness of such research and the relationship of pervasive data research to corporate datafication and surveillance. We suggest a way forward by drawing from the history of a different methodological approach in which researchers have struggled with trustworthy practice: ethnography. To grapple with the colonial legacy of their methods, ethnographers have developed analytic lenses and researcher practices that foreground relations of awareness and power. These lenses are inspiring but also challenging for pervasive data research, given the flattening of contexts inherent in digital data collection. We propose ways that pervasive data researchers can incorporate reflection on awareness and power within their research to support the development of trustworthy data science.
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Vecchi, Ilaria. "Itako on screen." Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion (JBASR) 21 (January 8, 2020): 76. http://dx.doi.org/10.18792/jbasr.v21i0.41.
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This article is based on my fieldwork with Itako shamans in the north-eastern part of Japan. The progressive modernisation of Japan at the expense of rural areas has also affected Tohoku, resulting in the ageing of the social fabric of its communities. Within this context, this article focusses on traditional and established activities practised by the blind female Itako shamans, who are going through a process of adaptation. Therefore, the article is concerned with this process and, in particular, on the methodology applied before and during my fieldwork experience of spending time, observing, having conversations, and filming these women in their everyday life. In the attempt to understand and document these shamans, I consider the use of visual ethnographic methods for understanding the changing aspects and their implications on the life of these women. While doing this, I also considered their communities and the area in which they live. I analyse this process by blending different methodologies such as visual methodology and digital visual ethnography and the critical religion approach proposed by Fitzgerald (2000). In addition, the paper will describe how I applied this methodology to provide a fresh look at these women and their daily activity.
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Rudenko, Yuliia. "Testing the results of the training aimed at future preschool educators by means of the Microsoft Teams program in distance and mixed forms of teaching / learning." Scientific bulletin of South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky 2021, no. 1 (134) (March 25, 2021): 75–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.24195/2617-6688-2021-1-10.
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The article considers the specifics of teaching the discipline "Methods of Acquainting Children with Ukrainian Ethnography in Establishments of Preschool Education" in terms of distant and blended learning. The educational and methodological complex of the course is elaborated in accordance with the syllabi; program learning outcomes; a list of general and profession-related competences that are expected to be formed while studying the discipline; lectures, seminars, practical, laboratory classes; tasks for independent work; individual educational research tasks; evaluation criteria for different types of work for all types of control, etc. At the initial stage of teaching the discipline, a special seminar was held for students – future educators on the topic "Organisation of distance learning using Microsoft Teams software». During a specialised seminar, the future educators were acquainted with: the features of the online content of Microsoft Teams; registration procedure on the platform; obtaining an access password and e-mail address to participate in the work of virtual classes and commands; organisation of the educational process, remote dialogic communication using Microsoft Teams resources; creation of a library of learning materials (lecture notes, video lectures, presentations on the content of lectures, assignments for seminars, practical classes, etc.); possibilities of placing practical materials (tasks for practical classes, independent work, individual educational research tasks, etc.) with the help of OneDrive. The specialised seminar helped to increase the level of digital, information-related, information-digital competence of future educators of preschool educational institutions, which was a prerequisite for success in mastering profession-related disciplines. The article provides instructions for organising practical classes and lectures on the course "Methods of Acquainting Children with Ukrainian Ethnography in Establishments of Preschool Education", prescribes the procedure for testing (current (modular) and final testing). The testing of the programme outcomes using Microsoft Teams and Office 365 software allowed us to optimise the teaching of the course within blended and distance learning.
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Albanese, Valentina. "Global images vs cultural images: mixed methods to deepen territorial representations." AIMS Geosciences 8, no. 4 (2022): 593–608. http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/geosci.2022032.
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<abstract> <p>This paper aims at investigating images of places as a narrative element. In particular, dichotomous reference will be made to the global images of places that arise from dominant narratives versus the cultural images of places that arise from sensorial and experienced life.</p> <p>Starting from theoretical reflection on the role of images and narratives with respect to the perception, imagery and experience of places, this contribution will focus on the sense of place and the influence of direct experience on its formation. The work deepens critical issues and capabilities of the digital visual methodology combined with sensory ethnography. The research, from an empirical point of view, was carried out as a teaching laboratory during the Geography for Tourism Science course at the University of Insubria. The students were invited to direct observation of their own place of life, with the aim of analysing its cultural image, and also to mediated observation of a known place not known directly but known through famous images and representations, with the aim of analysing its global image. This exercise outdoor allowed students to compare the theoretical concepts learned in the classroom with their perceptions of their everyday geographies, transferring the study of theory to everyday life as a tool to better understand their own and daily experience.</p> </abstract>
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Prause, Louisa. "Digital Agriculture and Labor: A Few Challenges for Social Sustainability." Sustainability 13, no. 11 (May 26, 2021): 5980. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13115980.
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Academic and political debates on the digitalization of agriculture have addressed sustainability mainly from an ecological perspective. Social sustainability, particularly questions of labor, has been largely neglected in the literature thus far. This is particularly problematic since digitalization could fundamentally change farming practices and labor processes on farms, with possibly far-reaching consequences for rural development, rural communities as well as migrant laborers. Looking at the case study of Germany, this article asks how digital technologies are changing labor processes on horticultural and arable farms. The aim of this paper is to bring labor into the debates around agriculture and digitalization and to offer a detailed picture of the impacts of digital technologies on labor in agriculture. The case study builds on fourteen in-depth interviews conducted from June 2020 to March 2021, participant observation, and digital ethnography. The results show new forms of labor control and an intensification of the work process linked to methods of digital Taylorism, as well as risks of working-class fragmentation along age lines. A deskilling of workers or farmers due to digitalization has not been observed. The suggestion of an increased dependency of workers due to the loss of employment opportunities in agriculture is contested. The results stress the importance of designing agricultural policies that foster fair and equitable working conditions.
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Mbura, Issa. "Effects of Digitalization on the Three-tier Structure of Tanzania’s Film Industry." Umma: The Journal of Contemporary Literature and Creative Art 9, no. 1 (2022): 140–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.56279/ummaj.v9i1.7.
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This paper examines the effects of digitalization on the three-tier structure of Tanzania film industry. Explicitly, the paper focuses on the period between 1990 and 2020. It follows on the presumptions that omnipresent and pervasive digital video and Internet-based technologies promoted under the theme of digitalization and underpinned by the digital revolution theory are impacting on film industries across nations. The specific drivers of the digitalization that the paper advances are digital video cameras and computer-based nonlinear editing systems applied in the production of films, Digital Versatile Discs (DVD), Online movie streaming and Video on Demand (VOD) platforms as used in distributing films and digital cinema formats and projectors in exhibition of films. Key informant interview method was used to collect qualitative data from twenty six (26) respondents. The respondents included media experts, filmmakers, camera operators, video editors and various film industry stakeholders. Other data collection methods employed included direct observation and online ethnography. The paper reveals that digitalization elicits and enhances specific changes on the three-tier structure of the Tanzania film industry. Due to the effects of digitalization the Tanzania film industry has morphed into a functional film industry. The paper concludes that in spite of the differences in its effectiveness and purposes that are grounded on issues of contexts, digitalization is more important than other determining factors such as capital formation in impacting on the transformation of the three-tier structure of the country’s film industry.
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Khairah, Himmatul, and Shuri Mariasih Gietty Tambunan. "TEKNOLOGI DIGITAL SEBAGAI MEDIA OBJEKTIFIKASI PEREMPUAN: KAJIAN KRITIS MEDIA SOSIAL." Jurnal Muara Ilmu Sosial, Humaniora, dan Seni 3, no. 2 (October 31, 2019): 503. http://dx.doi.org/10.24912/jmishumsen.v3i2.3507.2019.
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Sebagai bagian dari perkembangan teknologi digital yang sangat dinamis, media sosial dapat berfungsi sebagai media pemberdayaan perempuan atau media untuk meningkatkan kesadaran (awareness) terhadap isu-isu gender. Akan tetapi, dalam kenyataannya, media sosial justru dipakai sebagai alat pelanggeng dominasi ideologi patriarki yang memosisikan perempuan sebagai obyek atau pihak yang lebih inferior. Kajian kritis terhadap media sosial melalui pendekatan multi disiplin seperti yang dilakukan dalam penelitian ini dengan menggunakan metode digital ethnography harus terus dikembangkan agar penelitian akademis dapat membongkar ideologi dominan dalam praktik budaya yang terjadi di media sosial. Penelitian ini menganalisis bagaimana media sosial Instagram digunakan oleh penggunanya, dalam hal ini seorang public figure, yang memiliki follower dalam jumlah banyak melalui akun @phtfcl, untuk mengkonstruksi imaji laki-laki maskulin sebagai individu yang sukses karena memiliki kekayaan yang dapat digunakan untuk mendapatkan perempuan ‘ideal’. Pemikiran dasar penelitian ini adalah bagaimana objektifikasi perempuan terutama dalam media sosial sangat terkait dengan status sosial perempuan di dunia ‘nyata.’ Inilah yang kemudian menjadi signikansi utama mengapa media sosial harus selalu dipermasalahkan kompleksitasnya. Permasalahan utama adalah bagaimana PHT mengkonstruksi pemaknaan dominan atas dirinya sebagai bagian dari konstruksi dominan mengenai maskulinitas yang memosisikan perempuan sebagai obyek. Temuan penelitian menunjukkan objektifikasi perempuan sebagai bentuk pelanggengan budaya patriarki yang direproduksi secara berkesinambungan oleh media sosial. Akan tetapi, peneliti juga menemukan adanya dinamika afirmasi dan kontestasi oleh warganet sebagai bagian dari masyarakat jejaring yang secara aktif menunjukkan agensinya dalam memaknai objektifikasi tersebut. As part of the dynamic development of digital technology, social media serves as a medium for women empowerment or to increase awareness of gender issues. However, in reality, social media is often used as a tool to perpetuate the domination of patriarchal ideology that positions women as more inferior objects or party. Critical studies of social media through a multidisciplinary approach as conducted in this study using digital ethnography methods must continue to be developed in order for academic research to dismantle the dominant ideology in cultural practices that occur in social media. This study analyze how Instagram social media is used, in this case, by a public figure with a large number of followers through the @phtfcl account, to construct the image of masculine men as successful individuals because they have wealth that can be used to get 'ideal' women. The basic thinking of this research is how the objectification of women, especially in social media is closely related to the social status of women in the 'real' world. This is then the main significance of why social media must always be questioned about its complexity. The main problem is how PHT constructs the dominant meaning of himself as part of the dominant construction of masculinity that positions women as objects. Research findings show objectification of women as a form of perpetuating patriarchal culture that is reproduced on an ongoing basis by social media. However, researchers also found the dynamics of affirmation and contestation by citizens as part of a networked society that actively shows its agency in interpreting said objectification.
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Gonzalez, Gabriela, Kristina Vaculik, Carine Khalil, Yuliya Zektser, Corey Arnold, Christopher V. Almario, Brennan Spiegel, and Jennifer Anger. "Using Large-scale Social Media Analytics to Understand Patient Perspectives About Urinary Tract Infections: Thematic Analysis." Journal of Medical Internet Research 24, no. 1 (January 25, 2022): e26781. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/26781.
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Background Current qualitative literature about the experiences of women dealing with urinary tract infections (UTIs) is limited to patients recruited from tertiary centers and medical clinics. However, traditional focus groups and interviews may limit what patients share. Using digital ethnography, we analyzed free-range conversations of an online community. Objective This study aimed to investigate and characterize the patient perspectives of women dealing with UTIs using digital ethnography. Methods A data-mining service was used to identify online posts. A thematic analysis was conducted on a subset of the identified posts. Additionally, a latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) probabilistic topic modeling method was applied to review the entire data set using a semiautomatic approach. Each identified topic was generated as a discrete distribution over the words in the collection, which can be thought of as a word cloud. We also performed a thematic analysis of the word cloud topic model results. Results A total of 83,589 posts by 53,460 users from 859 websites were identified. Our hand-coding inductive analysis yielded the following 7 themes: quality-of-life impact, knowledge acquisition, support of the online community, health care utilization, risk factors and prevention, antibiotic treatment, and alternative therapies. Using the LDA topic model method, 105 themes were identified and consolidated into 9 categories. Of the LDA-derived themes, 25.7% (27/105) were related to online community support, and 22% (23/105) focused on UTI risk factors and prevention strategies. Conclusions Our large-scale social media analysis supports the importance and reproducibility of using online data to comprehend women’s UTI experience. This inductive thematic analysis highlights patient behavior, self-empowerment, and online media utilization by women to address their health concerns in a safe, anonymous way.
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Greenhalgh, Trisha, Sara E. Shaw, Anica Alvarez Nishio, Amy Booth, Richard Byng, Aileen Clarke, Francesca Dakin, et al. "Protocol: Remote care as the ‘new normal’? Multi-site case study in UK general practice." NIHR Open Research 2 (August 8, 2022): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3310/nihropenres.13289.1.
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Background: Following a pandemic-driven shift to remote service provision, UK general practices offer telephone, video or online consultation options alongside face-to-face. This study explores practices’ varied experiences over time as they seek to establish remote forms of accessing and delivering care. Methods: This protocol is for a mixed-methods multi-site case study with co-design and national stakeholder engagement. 11 general practices were selected for diversity in geographical location, size, demographics, ethos, and digital maturity. Each practice has a researcher-in-residence whose role is to become familiar with its context and activity, follow it longitudinally for two years using interviews, public-domain documents and ethnography, and support improvement efforts. Research team members meet regularly to compare and contrast across cases. Practice staff are invited to join online learning events. Patient representatives work locally within their practice patient involvement groups as well as joining an online patient learning set or linking via a non-digital buddy system. NHS Research Ethics Approval has been granted. Governance includes a diverse independent advisory group with lay chair. We also have policy in-reach (national stakeholders sit on our advisory group) and outreach (research team members sit on national policy working groups). Results (anticipated): We expect to produce rich narratives of contingent change over time, addressing cross-cutting themes including access, triage and capacity; digital and wider inequities; quality and safety of care (e.g. continuity, long-term condition management, timely diagnosis, complex needs); workforce and staff wellbeing (including non-clinical staff, students and trainees); technologies and digital infrastructure; patient perspectives; and sustainability (e.g. carbon footprint). Conclusion: By using case study methods focusing on depth and detail, we hope to explain why digital solutions that work well in one practice do not work at all in another. We plan to inform policy and service development through inter-sectoral network-building, stakeholder workshops and topic-focused policy briefings.