Technologie self, czyli „programowanie” dryfujących tożsamości

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (57) ◽  
pp. 91-100
Author(s):  
Anna Kalinowska
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
On Line ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
Specific Identity

How to define an identity? As a product of individual or result of social and cultural influences through the ages? One, main and only answer could not exist. Ones identity in post-modern reality will be elusive. From time to time, from information or network to alghorithmic society some new identity concepts have appeared. But it is a fact that the category of identity becames smooth and undefined nowadays. We all have its plural. Technologies of self may be a solution to search for specific identity settings. Looking at actions and attitudes that lead to the realization of the goals and self-improvement, technologies of self represent the modern coordinates of identity formation. The use of analog and digital tools makes it possible to control and characterize the factors forming ones personality. In the end, it is expressed as media practices. This article is an essay to redefine the concept of technologies of self, including digital return during last 20 years. The conclusions are based on the analysis of the author’s qualitative research. The paper presents a short specification of the definitions focused on daily on-line activities and user habits.

scholarly journals DIVORCE THROUGH ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE - SOCIAL ARGUMENTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 54-60
Author(s):  
Iulian APOSTU
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Divorce Rate ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Continuous Increase ◽  
Legal Proceedings ◽  
Administrative Procedure ◽  
General Indicator

Although in Romania the number of divorces is considered to be in a continuous increase, in reality, the data of the National Institute of Statistics show that in Romania, the divorce rate remains constant and in small shares. In 1990, the Romanian divorce rate was 1.42 ‰ and the latest national INS data show a general indicator of 1.39 ‰. The low divorce rate in Romania does not imply, at the same time, a high rate of marital happiness in the Romanian family. With many cultural influences, the condition of being divorced does not enjoy much tolerance, so some of the potential legal separation decisions are obscured by traditional imperatives that block or delay the divorce. However, the new legal proceedings after 2010 regarding the option of legal separation at a notary or before the registrar have created the premise of a simplified divorce that avoids the courts, long and frequent appearances, as well as greater exposure. The study aims to analyze the motivations of individuals for divorce at the notary or the registrar, starting from the dilemma of arguing a simplified legal procedure or a decision related to a better protection of privacy. The paper is based on a qualitative research, the method used being the sociological survey, and the research tool - the semi-structured interview. For the data collection, the technique of non-probabilistic qualitative sampling of convenience was used.

White Noise and Black Boxes: Social Justice Discourses and Social Media Practices

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 310-318
Author(s):  
Didem Uca
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
White Noise ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Black Boxes ◽  
The Us ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
Digital Spaces

Social media has long been a powerful tool for marginalized individuals to connect and form communities. Yet the digital tools used to facilitate these modes of communication, including the hashtag, can also be overpowered by misuse from users outside of these communities. This essay analyzes recent efforts by people of colour in Germany and the US to curate digital spaces by creating and utilizing hashtags such as #BlackLivesMatter and #MeTwo that center their voices, while also discussing appropriation and right-wing responses to progressive social justice activism that threaten the hashtag’s ability to make meaningful content available to the users who need it.

Research Design in Team-Based Qualitative Research

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Team Formation ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Project Organization ◽  
Data Archiving ◽  
Project Management System ◽  
The Third ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Start Up

In the introduction to this chapter and interwoven throughout the text is the message that qualitative research begins and ends in writing, which in this case means that research design is a beginning point for that writing. This chapter is composed of three major sections that illustrate how team start-up is critical to how the writing will proceed down the line. The first section—Team Formation—provides detailed information on issues to consider in establishing the team in a manner that will be most beneficial to the conduct of qualitative research. The second section—Research Design and Project Organization—discusses early writing tasks, establishing a project management system, and the importance of linking all of this to a data archiving plan. Digital tools are discussed in some depth. The third section—Caring: Internalized and Externalized—suggests a novel approach to the issue of ethics and team management.

Improving outcomes with Qualitative Data Analysis Software: A reflective journey

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 436-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Austin G Oswald
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Analysis Software ◽  
Qualitative Data Analysis ◽  
Social Work Research ◽  
Qualitative Data Analysis Software

Now more than ever, qualitative social work researchers are being called upon to conduct increasingly complex, multifaceted, and intersectional research. Given the heightened complexity of social work research, it is necessary that scholars learn strategies to streamline the research process and digital tools for qualitative research are a mechanism to do so. In this paper, I share insights gleaned from personal experience working with Qualitative Data Analysis Software, specifically MAXQDA 12, to support a larger study that explored the social lives of older gay men. This paper highlights the various functions of MAXQDA 12 and how qualitative social work researchers can use the program to improve the research process and outcomes. Despite the rapid growth in production of digital tools for qualitative research there remains a dearth in studies that explicitly address how digital tools are used in the extant literature on qualitative research. This paper sheds light on this noted gap in the literature by exploring the functionality of MAXQDA 12 and how it can be applied to improve qualitative social work research.

scholarly journals Călin Neamtu, Vitalie Barca, Zsolt Buna, Promoting and Capitalizing on the Vestiges from Sarmizegetusa Regia by Modern Multimedia Methods

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-173
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
The Other ◽  
World Heritage Sites ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Accurate Expression ◽  
On Line ◽  
Local Traditions

Sarmizegetusa Regia was included, together with the other five Dacian fortresses, on the List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1999. They are a unique synthesis of external cultural influences and local traditions in terms of building techniques and overall, in the ancient military architecture, representing the grand expression of the civilisation of the Dacian Kingdom. These fortresses are the accurate expression of the exceptional development level of the Dacian civilisation, Sarmizegetusa Regia lying at the forefront of this fortified complex, epitomizing the evolution phenomenon from fortified centres to proto-urban agglomerations. As such, promoting these monuments and the numerous artefacts discovered by modern methods and techniques should become a priority. This paper presents a series of last generation applications and equipment that may be successfully used in promoting cultural heritage. Case studies include scanned artefacts and 3D reconstructions of the monuments in the site of Sarmizegetusa Regia, a monument on the UNESCO List of World Heritage Sites together with the other five Dacian fortresses (Bănița, Costești-Blidaru, Costești-Cetățuie, Piatra Roșie and Căpâlna). We present here the results obtained following the use of several hardware tracking systems, augmented virtual reality applications and haptic devices. One of the important aspects, when attempting to make enhanced on-line use of heritage good is the extent to which it is accessible and reusable by various categories of users, either specialists or the general public. Digitalizing a good in the cultural heritage is the first step for ensuring the broad access via the on-line medium, the quality of this process ensuring the electronic format artefact legitimacy and credibility, which means that it should be an electronic duplicate truthful to the real artefact.

scholarly journals Semiótica de la Marca como herramienta para innovar en pymes de Colombia / Branding Semiotics, tips to Innovate in SMEs in Colombia

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-129
Author(s):  
Mireya Barón Pulido ◽  
Gabriel Lotero Echeverri
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Quantitative Phase ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACTThe mass media and multitasking (Piscitelli, 2009) society requires from the manager to consider the relationship and impact of what his brand communicates. The design of online communicative strategies and their link to consultancy models (Pfefferman, 2011) – where the manager himself becomes the entrepreneur of his own organization — becomes the strength of the branding communication of the organization (Capriotti, P., 2009). The paper exposes the research findings obtained from the study done with small and medium enterprisess (SMEs) in Medellin and Bogotá (Colombia). This qualitative research examines the organizations capabilities toward the appropriation of opportunities on behalf of digital communication. Finally it makes a consultancy proposal addressed to pymes entrepreneurs from the perspective which considers the “Enterprise as a sign and as a semiosis”. It is claimed that if something is not communicated it will not generate any reminder at the level of the client. The results research -which compiles Medellin and Bogotá data- are published upon two products: A book to the organizational communication field, and a multimedia guide to business owners. It is a qualitative studio but with a quantitative phase, applying survey forms.RESUMENLa sociedad mediática y “multitasking” (Piscitelli, 2009) demanda al empresario tener en cuenta la relación e impacto de lo que comunica su marca en el entorno. El diseño de estrategias comunicativas on line, y su vinculación a modelos de consultoría (Pfefferman, N., 2011) se convierte en fortalezas en la comunicación de la marca de la organización (Capriotti, P, 2009). En el texto se exponen los resultados de una investigación con pequeñas y medianas empresas (pymes) de Medellín y Bogotá (Colombia), realizada como un estudio cualitativo, que se propone indagar por las capacidades de las organizaciones para la apropiación de las oportunidades que representa la comunicación digital. Finalmente, se plantea una propuesta de consultoría a los empresarios de pymes, desde el enfoque que reconoce a la “Empresa como signo y semiosis”, es decir, lo que no se comunica no genera recordación en el cliente.

scholarly journals Overcoming Limitations for Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic via the Communicative Methodology: The Case of Homelessness During the Spanish Home Confinement

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 160940692110501
Author(s):  
Sandra Racionero-Plaza ◽  
Ana Vidu ◽  
Javier Diez-Palomar ◽  
Nerea Gutierrez Fernandez
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Qualitative Investigation ◽  
Methodological Innovation ◽  
On Line ◽  
Difficult Times

Research on homelessness is a field of study in social sciences with a long and solid history. Several pieces of research have let us understand the life experiences and trajectories of these individuals, the challenges that they have faced, and the interventions conducted with them to address this inequality. Nonetheless, the research methodologies in those studies prove short in a situation such as the current COVID-19 pandemic. If we, researchers, are to prioritize social impact, we cannot wait for the pandemic to be overcome to employ those methodologies to investigate homelessness. If so doing, we would meet the needs of homeless people too late. Because social impact is at the forefront, if those methodological resources are not sufficient, then it is necessary to introduce additional ones. This article presents how to address this challenge via the employment of the communicative methodology of research, with the example of a qualitative investigation on how homeless people were attended during the lockdown in Spain in March 2020. The researchers could not meet these individuals on the streets by that time, yet their experiences during the lockdown and how they were being transformed were examined via on-line interviews with individuals voluntarily serving homeless people during home confinement. This methodological innovation in qualitative research is at the service of social impact and can be helpful to researchers investigating vulnerable groups in difficult times.

Digital Tools for Qualitative Research

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trena Paulus ◽  
Jessica Lester ◽  
Paul Dempster
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Digital Tools

Using Digital Tools in Qualitative Research

2012 ◽  
pp. 284-298
Author(s):  
Susan Crichton
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Software Applications

Digital tools can help simplify qualitative researchers’ work. They can also add depth and richness by capturing data in a way that can be viewed and reviewed without preliminary transcription. This chapter shares an approach to working with digital data that honors participant voice and the lived experiences of those under study. The chapter also suggests new tools and common software applications. Further, it suggests a workflow to guide researchers as he or she begins to work to incorporate digital data into their studies.

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