scholarly journals Networked Field Studies: Comparative Inquiry and Online Communities

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 205630511774313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessa Lingel
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Internet Studies ◽  
Comparative Inquiry

In this article, I articulate a methodology for comparative qualitative analysis of online communities, which I refer to as networked field studies. I describe networked field studies as an approach that allows for looking across multiple communities and field sites to build a coherent set of analytical claims about the role of technology and everyday life, drawing on my own research investigating relationships to digital technologies among three countercultural communities. The major aim of this article is to contribute to methodological discussions on comparative qualitative analysis within Internet studies, foregrounding how research on digital technologies can both benefit from and complicate a comparative approach. After a brief summary of the communities studied in the research that has given rise to this methodological approach, I outline key methodological concepts and address the strengths and limitations of networked field studies as a method for analyzing socio-technical practices in everyday life.

scholarly journals REMOTE WORK BETWEEN NARRATIVES OF INDIPENDENCE AND FRACTURED EXPERIENCES. A QUALITATIVE RESEARCH DURING THE PANDEMIC CRISIS.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabetta Risi ◽  
Riccardo Pronzato
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Remote Workers

This paper focuses on how remote workers experienced their job and everyday life during the Italian lockdown imposed by the national government to contain the spread of COVID-19. Specifically, this contribution focuses on the interdependence of work and everyday life, and the role of digital devices and online platforms during the home-confinement period, and it explores the consequences of social distancing measures on remote workers and on their working and personal conditions. The study draws from 20 in-depth semi-structured interviews with remote workers, i.e., individuals which could work from home through digital technologies during the national lockdown. Results highlight that during the lockdown, some participants attempted to cope with the unprecedented triumph of technologically mediated work, others described remote work as liberating and attractive, as it avoids commuting and allow people to organize their activities autonomously, without constraints of space and time. However, their initial enthusiasm decreased after a few weeks of domestic confinement. The experience of remote workers that emerges is a “fractured” one, which appears as a characteristic feature of forced and continuous remote work. Indeed, the coronavirus crisis has accentuated the infrastructural role of digital platforms and intensified the ‘deep mediatization’ of social life and labour, thereby normalizing transmedia work and the ‘extension of already media saturated working conditions’.

scholarly journals We say no to La Monroe closure! local defiance to global restructuring in a transnational company

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holm-Detlev Köhler ◽  
Sergio González Begega
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Northern Spain ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Global Restructuring ◽  
Transnational Company

Purpose This paper aims to examine the reaction of a local workforce to global restructuring in a transnational company (TNC), which entailed the closure of a manufacturing plant (La Monroe) in Northern Spain. The article explores the micro-political nature of the corporate decision to close the plant, the workforce reaction to relocation and the discourse legitimizing global restructuring. It also delves into the contra-hegemonic potential of labour as a main stakeholder in TNCs. Design/methodology/approach The methodological approach is qualitative. The article presents a theoretically informed and analytical case study based on the literature on micro-politics and power relations in TNCs. Fieldwork is based on semi-structured interviews carried out with relevant stakeholders and other external actors to the TNC. Findings The findings substantiate the dynamic role of micro-politics within TNCs. The article presents and discusses evidence of the formation of a broad multi-level political network of resistance to a plant closure plan. Research limitations/implications More case study analysis would further support the findings in the paper and provide for a comparative approach. Originality/value The article substantiates the dynamic role of micro-politics and power relations in the reification of social norms and discourses on production relocation. It offers an empirical appraisal of the micro-political approach to global restructuring in TNCs. The article also puts labour strategies at the forefront of the analysis in corporate relocation.

scholarly journals From protest to parliament: The role of digital technologies within an online community

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-45
Author(s):  
Øystein Sæbø ◽  
Tommaso Federici ◽  
Alessio Maria Braccini
Keyword(s):  
Online Communities ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Movement Organization ◽  
Five Star Movement ◽  
Italian Politics ◽  
The Government ◽  
Political Decisions

Our teaching case introduces the story of how the Italian Five Star Movement used digital technologies in the growth from a personal blog discussing politics back in 2005 to the most voted party in the Italian election in 2018, becoming part of the government. The Italian Five Star Movement is among the largest eParticipation initiatives globally. It is (almost) totally organized through the use of digital platforms. Members form online communities and are continuously invited to discuss and make decisions that end up into Italian politics. Adopting a chronological perspective, we describe the development of the Italian Five Star Movement, focusing on their use of digital technologies at various stages and for various purposes. The case illustrates the growth of online communities and the advent of a social movement organization within the political sphere, and how to organize for members to discuss and make political decisions online. Furthermore, it demonstrates the growth of online communities and opportunities and challenges faced with such a quick progress.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Laura Carter
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social History ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Origin Stories ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The One

The introduction proposes the key argument that the twentieth century was Britain’s educational century. It discusses how the democratization of historical knowledge in Britain between 1918 and 1979 occurred as a process of negotiation between policymakers, elites, and educationists on the one hand, and ordinary people on the other. The concept of the ‘history of everyday life’ is introduced and defined. The introduction then discusses the important role of women in the making of popular social history, and its relationship to classed, gendered, racial, imperial, and national categories. The ‘history of everyday life’ is briefly discussed in relation to other ‘origin stories’ of British social history, especially the new academic social history of the 1960s and the importance of the ‘everyday’ in mid-century social science. Finally, the introduction discusses the book’s methodological approach and provides an overview of each of the chapters.

scholarly journals Online matters: Future visions of digital making and materiality in hobby crafting

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Kouhia
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Digital Material ◽  
Leisure Pursuit ◽  
Craft Community

Over the past twenty years, hobby crafting has experienced a revival of interest, as people have started to seek new ways to engage with crafts as creative leisure in an increasingly digital world. Along the way, emerging, digital technologies have provided new tools and ways to engage in hobby crafting. Indeed, today’s hobby crafts are frequently concerned with material mediated via the internet and accomplished with the aid of software, which also affects our understanding of maker identities in online communities. This article argues that digitalization has not only revolutionized hobbyist craft making with new tools and technologies, but has also paved new ways for practising creative skills, which has had a significant impact on makers’ engagements with craft materials, objects and communities of practices. This is demonstrated through netnographic explorations on Facebook’s leisure craft community where digital material practices are increasingly prevalent in hobbyists’ everyday life. As a conclusion, the article speculates on visions of the future of hobby crafts and its relevance as a leisure pursuit.

scholarly journals Urgensi Penggunaan Instrumen Regeling dalam Pembentukan Kebijakan Pemerintah di Lingkungan Sekretariat Kabinet

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-189
Author(s):  
Hermawan Susanto
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
State Secretary

Abstract This study aims to determine the urgency of using legal analysis instruments in the formation of government policies within the Cabinet Secretariat Republic of Indonesia. This research was analyzed by using a qualitative analysis method that uses a comparative approach. The results showed that the use of legal analysis instruments in the formation of government policies within the cabinet secretariat is very important given the strategic role of the cabbage secretariat as an institution whose function is to provide approval to the Minister of State Secretary for requests for permission to draft legislation and on the substance of the draft regulations legislation. Keywords: Legal Analysis, Policy, Cabinet Secretariat, Over Regulation .Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui urgensi penggunaan instrumen analisis hukum dalam pembentukan kebijakan pemerintah di lingkungan Sekretariat Kabinet. Penelitian ini dianalisis dengan menggunakan metode analisis kualitatif yang menggunakan pendekatan perbandingan konsep (comparative approach). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa penggunaan instrumen analisis hukum dalam pembentukan kebijakan pemerintah di lingkungan sekretariat kabinet sangat penting dilakukan mengingat peran strategis sekretariat kabinet sebagai lembaga yang berfungsi untuk memberikan persetujuan kepada Menteri Sekretaris Negara atas permohonan izin prakarsa penyusunan rancangan peraturan perundang-undangan dan atas substansi rancangan peraturan perundang-undangan. Kata Kunci: Analisis Hukum, Kebijakan, Sekretariat Kabinet, Over Regulasi

scholarly journals The role of digital technologies in the formation of specialists training in construction

2021 ◽  
Vol 98 ◽  
pp. 05035
Author(s):  
Tatyana Ksenofontova
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Engineering Structures ◽  
Software Complex ◽  
Media Space ◽  
Construction Activity ◽  
Design And Construction

Media space and digital technologies occupy ever increasing area in everyday life, including design and construction of engineering structures of various purposes. Training of future specialists specializing in construction is not an exclusion. Nowadays education involves elements of real design and construction activity, such as using modern software complexes in education, which allow to study future specialty at early stage. Thus, it is possible to form required competences of future specialists for their further activity. This article analyzes experience of teaching digital technologies exemplified by the use of modern software complex: LIRA-SAPR (OOO LIRA-SAPR, Kiev).

An Exploration of the Involuntary Celibate (Incel) Subculture Online

2020 ◽  
pp. 088626052095962
Author(s):  
Roberta Liggett O’Malley ◽  
Karen Holt ◽  
Thomas J. Holt
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Sexual Relationships ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Market Women ◽  
Extremist Groups ◽  
Made In

Incels, a portmanteau of the term involuntary celibates, operate in online communities to discuss difficulties in attaining sexual relationships. Past reports have found that multiple elements of the incel culture are misogynistic and favorable towards violence. Further, several violent incidents have been linked to this community, which suggests that incel communities may resemble other ideologically motivated extremist groups. The current study employed an inductive qualitative analysis of over 8,000 posts made in two online incel communities to identify the norms, values, and beliefs of these groups from a subcultural perspective. Analyses found that the incel community was structured around five interrelated normative orders: the sexual market, women as naturally evil, legitimizing masculinity, male oppression, and violence. The implications of this analysis for our understanding of extremism and the role of the internet in radicalization to violence are considered in depth.

scholarly journals Technology in culture: Embodiment of the divine and transformation of the natural (N.F. Fedorov, P.A. Florensky, F. Dessauer)

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Tatiana V. Bernyukevich
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
The World

The relevance of the research topic is related to the most important religious and philosophical concepts of the late 19th early 20th centuries, in which the mission of technology was defined as a special way of returning to the integrity of being. The purpose of the article is to consider the ideas of N.F. Fedorov, P.A. Florensky, F. Dessauer on the role of technology in the embodiment of the divine purpose and the transformation of the world. Comparative approach was used in the study as the main methodological approach. It contributed not only to the disclosure of the features of the authors ideas, but also made it possible to draw a conclusion about the general trends in determining the ontological status of technology in the religious and philosophical works of the period under consideration. In the conclusion of the article, it is noted that the purpose of technology in the concepts of N.F. Fedorov, P.A. Florensky, F. Dessauer is associated with its ability to overcome decay and restore unity: man with God, divine with natural, natural with social, etc. through culture, understood as human activity, sanctified by the Creators purpose.

The role of gossip in everyday life

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Hom ◽  
Jonathan Haidt
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life
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