Ethnographic Research of User Behavior of Mobile Devices of China, Korea, India, and The Netherlands

2011 ◽  
pp. 294-302
Author(s):  
Daeeop Kim ◽  
Kun-Pyo Lee
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
User Behavior ◽  
Ethnographic Research

Ethical dilemmas and challenges in ethnographic migration research

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-291
Author(s):  
Martha Montero-Sieburth
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Migration Research ◽  
The Us

PurposeArgued is the need for: (1) a clearer interpretation of procedural ethics guidelines; (2) the identification and development of ethical field case study models which can be incorporated into university ethics teaching; (3) an understanding of the vulnerabilities of researchers and participants as reflected in the researchers' positionality and reflexivity and (4) ethnographic monitoring as a participant-friendly and participatory ethics methodology.Design/methodology/approachThis article, drawn from the author's four-decade trajectory of collective ethnographic research, addresses the ethical challenges and dilemmas encountered by researchers when conducting ethnographic research, particularly with vulnerable migrant women and youth.FindingsThe author addresses dilemmas in field research resulting from different interpretations of ethics and emphasizes the need for researchers to be critically aware of their own vulnerabilities and those of migrants to avoid unethical practices in validating the context(s), language(s), culture and political landscape of their study.Research limitations/implicationsThe author presents case studies from the US and the Netherlands, underlining her positionality and reflexivity and revisits Dell Hymes' ethnographic monitoring approach as a participant-friendly, bottom-up methodology which enables researchers to co-construct knowledge with participants and leads to participatory ethics.Practical implicationsShe presents case studies from the US and the Netherlands underlining her positionality and reflexivity and revisits Dell Hymes’ ethnographic monitoring approach as a participant-friendly, bottom up methodology which enables researchers to co-construct knowledge with participants and engage in participatory ethics.Social implicationsFinally, she proposes guidelines for the ethical conduct of research with migrant populations that contribute to the broader methodological debates currently taking place in qualitative migration research.Originality/valueExpected from this reading is the legacy that as a qualitative migration researcher one can after 4 decades of research leave behind as caveats and considerations in working with vulnerable migrants and the ethical dilemmas and challenges that need to be overcome.

scholarly journals Capturing commemoration: Using mobile recordings within memory research

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Birdsall ◽  
Danielle Drozdzewski
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Sound Recording ◽  
Memory Research ◽  
Acoustic Environment ◽  
Audio Data

This paper details the contribution of mobile devices to capturing commemoration in action. It investigates the incorporation of audio and sound recording devices, observation, and note-taking into a mobile (auto)ethnographic research methodology, to research a large-scale commemorative event in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. On May 4, 2016, the sounds of a Silent March—through the streets of Amsterdam to Dam Square—were recorded and complemented by video grabs of the march’s participants and onlookers. We discuss how the mixed method enabled a multilevel analysis across visual, textual, and aural layers of the commemorative atmosphere. Our visual data aided in our evaluation of the construction of collective spectacle, while the audio data necessitated that we venture into new analytic territory. Using Sonic Visualiser, we uncovered alternative methods of “reading” landscape by identifying different sound signatures in the acoustic environment. Together, this aural and visual representation of the May 4 events enabled the identification of spatial markers and the temporal unfolding of the Silent March and the national 2 minutes’ silence in Amsterdam’s Dam Square.

Information disclosure on mobile devices: Re-examining privacy calculus with actual user behavior

2013 ◽  
Vol 71 (12) ◽  
pp. 1163-1173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark J. Keith ◽  
Samuel C. Thompson ◽  
Joanne Hale ◽  
Paul Benjamin Lowry ◽  
Chapman Greer
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
User Behavior ◽  
Privacy Calculus

User Behavior in Location Search on Mobile Devices

2015 ◽  
pp. 728-733
Author(s):  
Yaser Norouzzadeh Ravari ◽  
Ilya Markov ◽  
Artem Grotov ◽  
Maarten Clements ◽  
Maarten de Rijke
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
User Behavior

Understanding the actual use of mobile devices in private clubs in the US

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristian Morosan ◽  
Agnes DeFranco
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
User Behavior ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Us ◽  
Actual Use ◽  
Device User ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Device Use

Purpose – This paper aims to identify systematic ways of linking club members’ behavioral and demographic characteristics to their use of mobile devices in clubs. While the traditional private club experience is characterized by intensive personalization and face-to-face interactions, clubs are increasingly deploying information technology (IT) tools to optimize some of their internal processes and offer a better value proposition to their members. Design/methodology/approach – Based on data from 737 actual club members from the USA, this research used a series of logistic regressions to reveal the manner in which a series of behavioral and demographic variables can be used to predict the likelihood of use of mobile devices in clubs for specific club-related tasks. Findings – This research revealed that there are differences between the two main types of clubs (i.e. golf/country and city/athletic), as well as differences among club members residing in different regions of the USA in the manner in which members use mobile devices for club-related tasks. Research limitations/implications – This research offers a number of notable theoretical contributions. This research uses actual mobile device use data from actual club members in the USA. In addition, this research offers a comprehensive operationalization of the actual mobile use behaviors in clubs, and offers a methodological blueprint for predicting mobile device user behavior using easily collectable variables. Practical implications – This research provides specific suggestions to pinpoint the mobile technology deployment in clubs according to behavioral and demographic profile criteria. Social implications – This research could lead to feasible segmentation procedures and explicates the increasing role of mobile devices within the contemporary society. Originality/value – This research addresses a novel research topic in an industry characterized by a grave lack of research on IT.

Pressing, repressing and accommodating: local modes of governing social assistance recipients in welfare to work programmes in the Netherlands

2020 ◽  
pp. 211-236
Author(s):  
Josien Arts
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Case Managers ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Welfare To Work ◽  
Discretionary Power ◽  
Local Modes ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
Republican Theory

This chapter shows the differences between local welfare-to-work programmes in the Netherlands in terms of the ways in which social assistance recipients are directed towards paid labour: through pressing, repressing and accommodating modes of governing. Based on 13-month ethnographic research in three Dutch social assistance offices, this chapter argues, first, that the observed local differences result from decentralisation of policy design and implementation as well as increased discretionary power for case managers. Second, that the different local practices can be understood as varieties of neoliberal paternalism legitimised through various forms of stigmatisation of social assistance recipients that leave little room for them to revolt against disfunctioning policy and wrongful treatment. Third, by means of using the republican theory of non-domination, this chapter argues that the observed local differences (between as well as within municipalities) and limited room for social assistance recipients to voice their concerns indicate that Dutch welfare-to-work policies work partly in arbitrary ways and are insufficiently democratically controlled.

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