James Ash, Rob Kitchin, Agnieszka Leszczynski

Researching Digital Life (eBook, ePUB)

Orientations, Methods and Practice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

We now live in a world where all aspects of everyday life are thoroughly mediated by digital technologies. Making sense of digital life is accordingly an essential undertaking for social science and humanities scholars.

This multidisciplinary book provides an essential guide to researching digital life:

• Orienting readers with respect to methodologies, research design, and research ethics.
• Detailing key research methods, including interviews, surveys, ethnographies, walking methodologies, arts-based and participatory approaches, historical analysis, data visualisation, mapping and data analytics.
• Demonstrating these methods in action in real-world studies that have investigated apps and interfaces, social and locative media, mobilities, smart cities, and digital labour and work.

The authors provide:
. Non-Eurocentric perspectives and case studies from diverse disciplines
. Annotated further reading to help you situate your research alongside existing research in your field
. An outline of future directions for researching digital life.

Accessible in style and richly illustrated, the chapters provide a wealth of key insights and practical information to ensure research projects are successfully planned and implemented.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529679342
• Artikelnr.: 69072637

Autorenporträt

James Ash is a geographer and Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University. His research investigates the cultures, economies and politics of digital interfaces. He is author of Phase Media: Space Time and the Politics of Smart Objects (Bloomsbury, 2017) and The Interface Envelope: Gaming, Technology, Power (Bloomsbury Press, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Orientations
Introduction
Methodologies, Ontologies and Epistemologies
Research Design and Implementation
Research Ethics
Methods and Approaches
Interviews, Surveys, Observation and (Auto)Ethnography
Walking Methodologies, Walkthroughs and Audits
Arts-Based Methods
Participatory Methods
Historical Methods
Data Visualisation and Mapping
Data Analytics
Methods in Action
Apps and Interfaces
Social and Locative Media
Mobilities
Smart Cities
Digital Labour
Conclusion
Final thoughts

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Orientations
Introduction
Methodologies, Ontologies and Epistemologies
Research Design and Implementation
Research Ethics
Methods and Approaches
Interviews, Surveys, Observation and (Auto)Ethnography
Walking Methodologies, Walkthroughs and Audits
Arts-Based Methods
Participatory Methods
Historical Methods
Data Visualisation and Mapping
Data Analytics
Methods in Action
Apps and Interfaces
Social and Locative Media
Mobilities
Smart Cities
Digital Labour
Conclusion
Final thoughts

Rezensionen

The pervasive digital mediation of everyday life presents unique epistemological, methodological, ethical, and practical challenges for social science researchers. This text offers researchers a thorough and greatly-needed critical review of these issues, along with vital guidance for undertaking studies of digital life. Sarah Elwood 20231123