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This chapter details the case studies that were conducted as part of a five-year research project, which conducted the world’s first real-time cross-cultural exchange via the networking of large public screens located in Melbourne and Seoul. The project linked large screens located in Seoul and Melbourne for three media events: SMS_Origins and <Value>, HELLO, and Dance Battle. The chapter details methodological innovations of the research, which involved the reformulation of the way in which the scholar was embedded in the research and transformed according to the interactive research process. It also elucidates critical insights into the process of cultural exchange, the impact of media technologies on public space, and the transformation of the public sphere in the global era. The empirical research generates fresh insights into public interactions with large screens, providing a prototype for future cross-cultural events and offering new theoretical perspectives on the use of public space.

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Participant-Guided Mobile Methods: Investigating Personal Experiences of Communities Following a Disaster

10.4135/978144627305014536373 ◽

2014 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Karen Block ◽

Lisa Gibbs ◽

Elyse Snowdon ◽

Colin MacDougall

Keyword(s):

Personal Experiences ◽

Mobile Methods

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Using mobile methods to understand multifaceted heritage organisations

International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management ◽

10.1108/ijchm-04-2019-0400 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 32 (4) ◽

pp. 1675-1691

Author(s):

Jane Hamilton Johnstone ◽

Derek Bryce ◽

Matthew J. Alexander

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Methods ◽

Design Methodology ◽

Additional Insight ◽

Content Type ◽

Work Activities ◽

Novel Approach ◽

Hospitality And Tourism ◽

Mobile Methods ◽

Informal Settings ◽

Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to evaluate the possibilities associated with go-along technique and other mobile qualitative methods augmenting other qualitative methods as a novel approach to developing understanding of multifaceted organisations. Design/methodology/approach The study explores the challenges associated with “static” qualitative methods for understanding multifaceted organisations and evaluates how a range of mobile methods can achieve a greater depth of analysis when researching complex hospitality and tourism settings. The paper uses an illustrative empirical case where mobile methods are used as part of a multi-method qualitative study exploring ancestral tourism in a large, heterogeneous tourism organisation. Findings This research highlights how mobile methods can service to: broaden the scope of interviews through introducing enhanced meaning and spontaneity; afford opportunity to explore and verify interview findings in informal settings; and widen participation in the study through ongoing recruitment of participants. Practical implications The authors identify implications for researchers working within hospitality and tourism who can gain additional insight by augmenting qualitative studies with mobile methods. Originality/value This paper identifies challenges in using more static qualitative methods when seeking understanding of complex, multifaceted tourism organisations where work activities are mobile and spatially dispersed. This research highlights the value of mobile methods in combination with other qualitative methods, to gain greater understanding of these organisations.

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Changing Suburban Daily Mobilities in Response to a Mobility Intervention: A Qualitative Investigation of an E-bike Trial

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12062413 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (6) ◽

pp. 2413

Author(s):

Ragnhild Dahl Wikstrøm ◽

Lars Böcker

Keyword(s):

Energy Transport ◽

Low Energy ◽

Gps Tracking ◽

Visual Methods ◽

Qualitative Investigation ◽

Sustainable Transport ◽

Qualitative Gis ◽

Local Mobility ◽

Mobile Methods ◽

Transport Transition

This paper explores how local mobility interventions can bring about changes in daily mobilities and presents a qualitative study of an intervention introducing electric bikes (e-bikes) to suburban commuters in Norway. Our research shows promising evidence that e-bikes could play a crucial role in achieving a sustainable transport transition and that interventions are essential to stimulate the upscaling and mainstreaming of this emerging low-energy transport mode. In order to understand the scheme’s capacity to change mobility outcomes, this paper considers (i) how this low-energy mobility intervention was conceived and undertaken by its initiators, as well as how it was experienced by its participants; and (ii) how new e-bike practices are intertwined with existing daily activities and mobility systems. Theoretically, this paper draws on the staging mobilities framework and conceptualizes situational mobilities as involving the dimensions of embodiment, social interaction, and materiality. With this twofold objective, this paper generates crucial knowledge that is required to understand the capacity of mobility interventions to trigger a sustainable transport transition. This study explores the potential of combining mobile methods (GPS-tracking), qualitative GIS, and visual methods (photo- and map-elicitation) in interviews, and participant observations.

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Migration, Unemployment, and Lifeworld

Qualitative Inquiry ◽

10.1177/1077800416655828 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

pp. 77-88 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Uwe Flick ◽

Benjamin Hans ◽

Andreas Hirseland ◽

Sarah Rasche ◽

Gundula Röhnsch

Keyword(s):

Soviet Union ◽

Social Welfare ◽

Qualitative Methods ◽

Former Soviet Union ◽

Social Problems ◽

Cultural Backgrounds ◽

Relevant Issue ◽

Migration Research ◽

Critical Issues ◽

Mobile Methods

Migration is an issue for many countries. It affects several areas of social problems, for example, work and unemployment. A relevant issue to study in the context of unemployment and social welfare is, “Which are experiences of migrants with different language backgrounds in finding work and support?” For a running study with episodic interviews and mobile methods with migrants from the former Soviet Union to Germany, several issues are discussed in a “new critical inquiry”: Critical issues in the studied area (help, control, normative claims); applying (familiar) qualitative methods (interviewing in various languages and cultural backgrounds or mobile methods); triangulation in a new critical migration research.

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