scholarly journals From archive cultures to ephemeral content, and back: Studying Instagram Stories with digital methods

2020 ◽  
pp. 146144482096007
Author(s):  
Lucia Bainotti ◽  
Alessandro Caliandro ◽  
Alessandro Gandini
Keyword(s):  
Peculiar Feature ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Narrative Style ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
Object Of Study

Despite growing interest, there is a shortage of research about the methods and challenges that concern researching ephemeral digital content. To fill this gap, the article discusses two research strategies to study Instagram Stories. These allow users to share moments of their everyday lives in a documentary and narrative style; their peculiar feature is ephemerality, as each Story lasts for 24 hours. The article (a) explores how to bypass the Instagram API closure and (b) engages in an attempt at ‘circumventing the object of study’, taking advantage of how individual users archive Instagram Stories on other platforms (here, YouTube). In so doing, we contribute to the debate that seeks to innovate and ‘repurpose’ digital methods in a post-API environment. Besides the methodological utility, we show the tension between ephemeral content and archive cultures, and raise epistemological and ethical concerns about the collection, analysis and archival of ephemeral content.

Digital methods III: The digital mundane

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 1194-1201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Leszczynski
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Internet ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
Digital Research

This report considers a burgeoning strand of scholarship that foregrounds the mundane in engagements with the digital. Research concerned with the digital mundane attends to the ordinary and often taken-for-granted digital objects, practices, productions, and sites that significantly both mediate and are mediated by everyday lives and spatialities. Methodological innovations are advancing new techniques for researching mundane digital objects that participate in the internet of things, everyday spaces of the smart home, banal landscapes of data and digital infrastructures, and quotidian quantifications/datafications of the self. The proliferation of these methods also informs feminist scholarly praxes of digital iteration.

scholarly journals Cross-cultural information for Japanese nurses at an international hospital: a controlled before-after intervention study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariko Nishikawa ◽  
Masaaki Yamanaka ◽  
Akira Shibanuma ◽  
Junko Kiriya ◽  
Masamine Jimba
Keyword(s):  
Health Information ◽  
Intervention Study ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Statistical Testing ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
State Trait Anxiety Inventory ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Japanese Nurses

Abstract BackgroundOverseas visitors to Japan steadily increased for a decade until the pandemic of 2020. In 2019, 31.8 million people visited the country due to an easing of restrictions and an emphasis on tourism. Nurses are the forefront of the healthcare system when they interact with those overseas visitors at a clinic or hospital. The goal of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of providing health information, through an ordinary travel guidebook or a short digital cartoon by measuring the anxiety level of Japanese nurses who deal with foreign patients.MethodOur approach involves a controlled before-after intervention study from January to March in 2016 at a major international hospital in Japan. We surveyed nurses at three wards of the hospital who understood English and cared for foreign patients as the 1st intervention group. Following which, we collected data from the same 1st intervention group, but now considered as the 2nd intervention group. Nurses in the 1st intervention group read health information in a travel guidebook for Japan. Nurses in the 2nd intervention read health information in the guidebook and watched a four-minute digital cartoon in English on health services in Japan, titled Mari Info. After each intervention, the nurses answered a self-questionnaire, wherein we assessed their level of anxiety to care for foreign patients. We evaluated the results through statistical testing and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Form Y (STAI-Y).ResultsOf 111 nurses, 83 (74.8%) completed both interventions and a questionnaire. Reading the guidebook as well as watching a digital cartoon, as the 2nd intervention was more effective in reducing the level of anxiety to care for foreign patients compared to reading only the guidebook.ConclusionsJapanese nurses can lower their anxieties on dealing with foreign patients by knowing the various forms of healthcare information currently accessible to overseas visitors in both guidebooks and digital content. This helps them learn the ethical concerns and cultural norms of foreign patients they might care for.

scholarly journals Characteristics of the Digital Content about Energy-Saving in Different Countries around the World

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (17) ◽  
pp. 4704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Valerio-Ureña ◽  
Richard Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Energy Saving ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Rhetoric ◽  
The World ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
One Year ◽  
Types Of Information

Environmental sustainability is fundamental for human well-being, and energy-saving behaviors are fundamental for promoting environmental sustainability. This paper explores the types of information consumed on the Internet concerning the topic of energy-saving. The qualitative study used digital methods to analyze, from 17 different countries, one-year of Google searches, 170 webpages, and 6800 images. The results demonstrated that (a) most topics related to energy-saving involved commercial products; (b) in countries from North America, Europe, and Oceania, Google’s highest-ranked webpages were of a commercial nature, and in countries from Latin America, Africa, and Asia, webpages were of an educational nature; and (c) most images found in Google with the “energy-saving” query were related to lighting products. By and large, commercial interests were found to dominate the digital rhetoric around energy-saving, regardless of the countries’ region.

From Bakhtinian theory to a dialogical psychology

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 520-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua W. Clegg ◽  
João Salgado
Keyword(s):  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Psychotherapy Research ◽  
Semiotic Mediation ◽  
Relational Self ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Complex Image ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Bakhtinian Theory ◽  
Final Synthesis

The analysis of the different articles in this special issue gives a rather promising but complex image of a dialogical approach to psychology. Mikael Leiman proposed utterances as the object of study for psychotherapy research, semiotic mediation as the explanatory principle, and semiotic position as the unit of analysis. Frank Richardson cautioned us about how dialogical proposals can become entrapped by the extreme decentering tendency of social constructionism. James Cresswell, in his turn, claimed that Bakhtin's work is precisely a way of avoiding the unbalanced account of personal vacuity and freedom found in many constructionist accounts: it is precisely because we are bound to social ties that we become ethically involved with others and, indeed, with ourselves. Michèle Grossen and Anne Salazar Orvig claimed that otherness and the institutional, transpersonal dimensions are also present in every dialogical act, something that tends to be overlooked. Moore et al., following this suggestion, pointed to the multiplicity of institutional social frames, adding to the potential tension between the different available ways of interpreting self and context. Following these various contributions, the authors argue that a dialogical conception implies a relational self in constant dialogical and ethical involvement with society. They further argue that to respect the complexity of the whole in each lived situation, we need different, and more conversational, research strategies. In a final synthesis, centrifugal and centripetal movements of the self are conceived as mutually dependent in a fundamentally temporal conception of psychological becoming.

Ethical Conduct of Laboratory Experimental Research on Fear and Anxiety: Review and Recommendations

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 148-159
Author(s):  
Steven R. Lawyer ◽  
Ralph Baergen ◽  
Bena Kuruvilla
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Research ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Institutional Review Boards ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Cue Exposure ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Institutional Review ◽  
Fear And Anxiety ◽  
The Impact

Experimental research concerning fear and anxiety often involves exposing human subjects to fear-cue stimuli. Several aspects of fear-cue exposure may generate ethical concerns on the part of institutional review boards (IRBs) charged with protecting human research participants from harm. The goal of this article is to provide researchers with a framework for effectively addressing ethical concerns raised by some fear and anxiety research. We highlight the ethical considerations raised by fear-cue exposure procedures, review the extant research literature relevant to these concerns, make recommendations on how to address IRB ethical concerns, and recommend various research strategies that might clarify the impact (positive or negative) of fear-cue exposures on human subjects participating in anxiety research. IRBs may raise a variety of important concerns about fear-cue exposure research. Some of these concerns can be addressed by adequate justification within the IRB protocol using existing research findings. Further research is needed to address a variety of potential ethical concerns. Such research may help address concerns regarding research involving fear-cue exposure.

scholarly journals Prediking aan die hand van die metafoor van fiksieskryf

2008 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lourens Bosman ◽  
Julian Muller
Keyword(s):  
Life Stories ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Narrative Paradigm ◽  
Fiction Writing ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Narrative Style ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The One

Preaching according to the metaphor of fiction writing In this article the writers propose an alternative to modernistic linear and propositional ways of preaching. They argue that the context asks for preaching that is more in line with the dominant metaphors of the post-modern culture in which the listeners live their everyday lives. The preacher should be seen less as the bearer of final truths (the one who carries the light or acts as witness to the truth), and more as someone who participates in the reflection of ideas. They propose a narrative paradigm for preaching that moves beyond the use of stories as illustrations, to one where the preacher, in the narrative style, becomes the co-author of new life stories in the preaching event. The ABDCE model for fiction writing, proposed by Anne Lamott, is then used as a model for the structuring of the sermon. Structured along these lines, the sermon moves from a specific Action and its cultural and historical Background, through a Development, where something new starts to unfold before the listeners, to a Climax of new insight and an Ending that invites the listeners to take part in the telling and retelling of their own stories in the light of the Great Story of God and his people.

Understanding Global Challenges of Rapidly Developing Technologies: Digital Methods for Empirical Bioethics

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 158-158
Author(s):  
Manuel Schneider ◽  
◽  
Alessandro Blasimme ◽  
Effy Vayena ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gene Editing ◽  
Target Genes ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
High Accuracy ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Timely Manner ◽  
Empirical Bioethics ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
The World ◽  
Digital Methods

"Since the first successful application of the gene editing method based on the CRISPR/Cas-system, the technology has demonstrated great potential but also sparked a series of ethical concerns. Some of the issues are already known from earlier gene editing debates. However, the possibility of CRISPR to target genes with high accuracy and the easy application that allows a biohacker to experiment with a simple toolkit ordered online have introduced new ethical challenges. Further, thanks to preprint servers such as bioRxiv, biomedical research results are more and more accessible with little delay after an experiment was conducted. This enables researchers all over the world to participate and conduct their own experiments, making it a global endeavour. Not only does this make it difficult to monitor and regulate the technology but also speeds up the technological development significantly.CRISPR is only one of many examples of recent advancements with potentially high consequences for society at large. We think it is therefore paramount to identify new issues, understand their nature and assess their impact in a timely manner. In this paper, we propose the integration of digital methods into the toolbox of modern empirical bioethics and demonstrate their potential with two examples: We used 1) crawling and network analysis for hypothesis building, and 2) sentiment analysis to assess the public’s attitudes towards CRISPR on Twitter over a six and a half years period. "

Complementary Perspectives as a Means of Understanding Regional Change: Frontier Settlement in the Ecuador Amazon

1992 ◽  
Vol 24 (7) ◽  
pp. 939-961 ◽  
Author(s):  
L A Brown ◽  
R Sierra ◽  
D Southgate ◽  
L Labao
Keyword(s):  
Ground Level ◽  
Research Protocol ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Regional Change ◽  
Regional Geography ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Vantage Points ◽  
Current Concerns ◽  
Distinct Aspect

Illustrated in this paper is a research protocol wherein regional change in the Ecuador Amazon, measured in terms of changing settlement patterns, is explored from three distinct but complementary vantage points—idiographic, context-dependent generalizations, and universally applicable frameworks. All analyses are anchored to the study area itself; the region's ground-level reality plays a prominent role throughout; and the Amazon as a place is the object of study. The more universal the explanation, the less information it provides about the Ecuador Amazon per se; but each conceptualization illuminates a distinct aspect of the Amazon experience. A comprehensive understanding is the end result. The research protocol is situated within current concerns over place, the new regional geography, and related research strategies.

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