scholarly journals Social streaming? Navigating music as personal and social

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 643-659 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anja N Hagen ◽  
Marika Lüders
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Social Awareness ◽  
Mixed Method Study ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Social Features ◽  
Streaming Services ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Music Streaming

Music-streaming services embed social features that enable users to connect to one another and use music as social objects. This article examines how these features are experienced within negotiations of music as personal and social through the acts of sharing music and of following others. The analysis relies on 23 focus-group interviews with 124 Spotify and/or Tidal users and a mixed-method study including music-diary self-reports, online observation and interviews with 12 heavy users. Our findings suggest that users incorporate social awareness in non-sharing, selective-sharing and all-sharing approaches with strong, weak and absent ties. These ties are characterized by different configurations of social and music homophily. Negotiations of music as personal and social shape how music-streaming services are experienced.

scholarly journals Characteristics of influential peers in the eyes of secondary school students: a mixed method study

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (05) ◽  
pp. 429-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Y. Loke ◽  
Yim-wah Mak ◽  
Cynthia S.T. Wu
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
At Risk Students ◽  
Health Risk Behaviors ◽  
Mixed Method Study ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
School Students ◽  
Group Interviews

Aim It is the aim of this study to explore the characteristics of influential peers identified by schoolmates, and the mechanism by which they exert their influence on their peers. Background Adolescent crowds are a salient influence on the health-risk behaviors of peers, contributing to adolescent substance use such as drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, and taking drugs. Methods A mixed method study. Three schools granted us access to students and those who had been nominated as influential by their peers. The students were asked to nominate and indicated the characteristics of peers whom they considered influential in a quantitative study. Those peers whom they considered influential were invited to take part in focus group interviews. A total of six focus group interviews were conducted, comprised of two groups from each school, with an average of seven participants in each group. Findings Students considered caring and friendliness (91.0%), being a buddy (88.5%), and entertaining/humor (86.8%) as the top three characteristics of influential peers. The interviews revealed that the students believed that they are influential because of their cheerfulness and humor, considerateness, ability to communicate, popularity and sociability, sincerity and trustworthiness, and because they possess the characteristics of a leader. They also believed that their power to influence came about through their helpfulness, accommodation, and the closeness of their relationships. Their influence was manifested in both positive and negative ways on the academic pursuits and health-risk behaviors of their peers. In order to engage at-risk students in health promotion programs, it is important to identify their influential peers, and to understand how adolescent friends may help one another to resist behaviors that pose a risk to their health.

scholarly journals Preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia—a mixed-method study to find behavioral leverage for better protocol adherence

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (10) ◽  
pp. 1222-1229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aline Wolfensberger ◽  
Marie-Theres Meier ◽  
Lauren Clack ◽  
Peter W. Schreiber ◽  
Hugo Sax
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Mixed Method Study ◽  
Ventilator Associated Pneumonia ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Protocol Adherence ◽  
Group Interviews

AbstractObjectivePreventing ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is an important goal for intensive care units (ICUs). We aimed to identify the optimal behavior leverage to improve VAP prevention protocol adherence.DesignMixed-method study using adherence measurements to assess 4 VAP prevention measures and qualitative analysis of semi-structured focus group interviews with frontline healthcare practitioners (HCPs).SettingThe 6 ICUs in the 900-bed University Hospital Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland.Patients and participantsAdherence to VAP prevention measures were assessed in patients with a device for invasive ventilation (ie, endotracheal tube, tracheostomy tube). Participants in focus group interviews included a convenience samples of ICU nurses and physicians.ResultsBetween February 2015 and July 2017, we measured adherence to 4 protocols: bed elevation showed adherence at 27% (95% confidence intervals [CI], 23%–31%); oral care at 41% (95% CI, 36%–45%); sedation interruption at 81% (95% CI, 74%–85%); and subglottic suctioning at 88% (95% CI, 83%–92%). Interviews were analyzed first inductively according a grounded theory approach then deductively against the behavior change wheel (BCW) framework. Main behavioral facilitators belonged to the BCW component ‘reflective motivation’ (ie, perceived seriousness of VAP and self-efficacy to prevent VAP). The main barriers belonged to ‘physical capability’ (ie, lack of equipment and staffing and side-effects of prevention measures). Furthermore, 2 primarily technical approaches (ie, ‘restructuring environment’ and ‘enabling HCP’) emerged as means to overcome these barriers.ConclusionsOur findings suggest that technical, rather than education-based, solutions should be promoted to improve VAP prevention. This theory-informed mixed-method approach is an effective means of guiding infection prevention efforts.

scholarly journals The Benefits of Spiritual Diaries: A Mixed-Method Study in Korea

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suk-Sun Kim ◽  
Yeounsoo Kim-Godwin ◽  
Minji Gil ◽  
DaEun Kim ◽  
Yeon Kum Cheon
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Spiritual Growth ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Wellbeing ◽  
Mixed Method Study ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Group Interviews

AbstractThis mixed study examined the benefits of spiritual diaries in Korea. Quantitatively, differences in spiritual growth and psychological well-being were examined in relation to the frequency of writing spiritual diaries among 385 participating adults. The group who wrote spiritual diaries ‘5–7 times a week’ had significantly higher scores relating to spiritual growth and psychological wellbeing than other groups across the outcome variables. Qualitatively, the study also explored the benefits of writing spiritual diaries among 37 adults. Three major themes using four focus group interviews, were identified: (a) the acquisition of godly habits, (b) a closer walk with Jesus, and (c) the fullness of God’s presence. These findings are particularly important for healthcare providers who want to facilitate patient self-care.

scholarly journals Patients’ and clinicians’ experiences of the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview: A mixed method study in a Swedish outpatient setting

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 542-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malin Idar Wallin ◽  
Marie Dahlin ◽  
Lauri Nevonen ◽  
Sofie Bäärnhielm
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Initial Contact ◽  
Cultural Formulation ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Dsm 5 ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Cultural Formulation Interview

This study is an evaluation of clinicians’ and patients’ experiences of the core Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) in DSM-5. The CFI provides a framework for gathering culturally relevant information, but its final form has not been sufficiently evaluated. Aims were to assess the Clinical Utility (CU), Feasibility (F) and Acceptability (A) of the CFI for clinicians and patients, and to explore clinicians’ experiences of using the CFI in a multicultural clinical setting in Sweden. A mixed-method design was applied, using the CFI Debriefing Instrument for Clinicians ( N = 15) and a revised version of the Debriefing Instrument for Patients ( N = 114) (DIC and DIP, scored from −2 to 2). Focus group interviews were conducted with clinicians. For patients (response rate 50%), the CU mean was 0.98 ( SD = 0.93) and F mean 1.07 ( SD = 0.83). Overall rating of the interview was 8.30 ( SD = 1.75) on a scale from 0 and 10. For clinicians (response rate 94%), the CU mean was 1.14 ( SD = 0.52), F 0.58 ( SD = 0.93) and A 1.42 ( SD = 0.44). From clinician focus-group interviews, the following themes were identified: approaching the patient and the problem in a new manner; co-creating rapport and understanding; and affecting clinical reasoning and assessment. Patients and clinicians found the CFI in DSM-5 to be a feasible, acceptable, and clinically useful assessment tool. The focus group interviews suggested that using the CFI at initial contact can help make psychiatric assessment patient-centred by facilitating patients’ illness narratives. We argue for further refinements of the CFI.

scholarly journals How should be the laboratory application? Prospective teachers' perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 01007
Author(s):  
Fatma Alkan
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Chemistry Laboratory ◽  
Study Group ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Mixed Method Design ◽  
Group Interviews

The importance and effectiveness of laboratory applications should be find out by students or teachers. The aim of this study is to examine the perceptions on laboratory applications of prospective teachers and to determine the opinions about chemistry laboratory practices. The study group consisted of 1st grade prospective teachers. The research has been designed in a mixed method design. In the quantitative dimension of the study, the data obtained from the perceptions on laboratory applications scale were analysed. In the qualitative dimensions of the study was carried out in accordance with the situation pattern, and focus group interviews were conducted. According to quantitative findings of the research, the highest scores of sub-scales is in the effectiveness of laboratory. In qualitative findings, it has been emphasized that laboratory applications still bring chemistry lessons more enjoyable, provide knowledge retentions with practical applications, develop responsibility, improve the preparation behaviour of the course.

scholarly journals Pushing music: People’s continued will to archive versus Spotify’s will to make them explore

2019 ◽  
pp. 136754941986294
Author(s):  
Marika Lüders
Keyword(s):  
Action Potentials ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Streaming Services ◽  
The Will ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Individual Ownership ◽  
Music Streaming

Music streaming services provide people with access to vast libraries of music, but also encourage certain patterns of consumption. In this article, I use Spotify as a case and investigate the action potentials for exploring and archiving music. The personal role of music implies we may expect the ‘will to archive’ to be prevalent even if these archives are not based on individual ownership. First, an analysis of Spotify suggests that the machine agency of Spotify pushes people towards exploring music, whereas archiving features are material and depend on human action. Spotify is hence skewed towards prompting users to explore rather than archive music. Next, an analysis of 23 focus-group interviews suggests that users value opportunities to explore music, yet their practices are equally directed towards archiving music. Theoretically, this article delineates how objects with machine agency are different from material objects in terms of affordances. The action potentials of material objects are symmetrically constituted by what the objects provide relative to an active being. The action potentials of objects with machine agency interfere with this symmetry: the machine is designed to act on behalf of the human being, making certain affordances more perceivable than others.

scholarly journals The metaphors we stream by: Making sense of music streaming

First Monday ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anja Nylund Hagen
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Online Music ◽  
Streaming Services ◽  
Ways Of Being ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Music Streaming

In Norway music-streaming services have become mainstream in everyday music listening. This paper examines how 12 heavy streaming users make sense of their experiences with Spotify and WiMP Music (now Tidal). The analysis relies on a mixed-method qualitative study, combining music-diary self-reports, online observation of streaming accounts, Facebook and last.fm scrobble-logs, and in-depth interviews. By drawing on existing metaphors of Internet experiences we demonstrate that music-streaming services can make sense as tools, places, and ways of being. Music streaming as lifeworld mediation is discussed as a fourth framework for understanding online music experiences, particularly those arising from mobile and ubiquitous characteristics of contemporary Internet technology.

Management Strategy for Distributing Questionnaires and Interview Guidelines in the Research Data Collection Process

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-111
Author(s):  
Po. Abas Sunarya ◽  
George Iwan Marantika ◽  
Adam Faturahman
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Good Management ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Data Collection Process ◽  
Group Interviews

Writing can mean lowering or describing graphic symbols that describe a languageunderstood by someone. For a researcher, management of research preparation is a veryimportant step because this step greatly determines the success or failure of all researchactivities. Before a person starts with research activities, he must make a written plan commonlyreferred to as the management of research data collection. In the process of collecting researchdata, of course we can do the management of questionnaires as well as the preparation ofinterview guidelines to disseminate and obtain accurate information. With the arrangement ofplanning and conducting interviews: the ethics of conducting interviews, the advantages anddisadvantages of interviews, the formulation of interview questions, the schedule of interviews,group and focus group interviews, interviews using recording devices, and interview bias.making a questionnaire must be designed with very good management by giving to theinformation needed, in accordance with the problem and all that does not cause problems at thestage of analysis and interpretation.

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