Using Video Diaries in Social Science Research

The focus of this chapter is the use of video-diaries in social research. The aim is to examine and reflect upon the particular ethical terrain and situated ethics of using visual diary method in social science research with different participant groups who arguably present specific ethical concerns, including children and older people, people with disabilities (either physical, cognitive, or psychiatric), and older people. The authors present a discussion of the specific ethical considerations arising from the use of this method due to the particular type of data it generates, namely audio and moving visual data. As such, the process of creating a video diary and the procedures involved in collecting and analysing video diary data are fundamentally different from a paper-based (non-digital) diary. For these reasons, it is important to step back and reflect on the situated ethics, including the digital ethics encountered when using this method.

Personal Diary Method

There is a growing interest towards using diaries as a tool of data collection for gathering information pertaining to consumer research. However, the bigger challenge is the qualitative analysis of the data collected through this technique. Hence, the objective of the chapter is to illustrate how diary method of data collection can be a better option than other data collection tools in cases where the informants are likely to experience difficulties in recalling past consumption experience. To delineate the steps and different types of codes used in inductive content analysis to analyze the qualitative data collected through the personal diary method, the chapter will also present an exploratory study with airline consumers using self-completion diaries about their online ticket purchasing experience followed by qualitative analyses of this information collected through diary using inductive content analysis. Each step of the content analysis will be illustrated in the full chapter.

Deception in everyday life of Japanese young adults: a reanalysis

Very little research has focused on the subject of lying in everyday life, despite the benefits such study would provide. In this paper, we reanalyze the data from Murai’s work in 2000, which examined the telling of lies and the perception of being lied to in daily life by using a diary method in which participants recorded events in a diary for a certain period of time as directed by the researcher. Our reanalysis led us to three key findings. First, we found one prolific liar in the data. This is relevant because previous deception studies have only discussed the existence of “a few prolific liars” in Asia through one-shot surveys, whereas we confirm it through the reanalysis of the data collected by the diary method. Second, we did not find any significant rank correlation between the number of lies told and the number of perceptions of lies, nor was there evidence of any “prolific lie perceivers”. Third, we found that the mean percentage of the subjective accuracy of recording was roughly 80%, which demonstrates the accuracy of the diary method. In this paper, we report our findings, discuss the limitations (in particular, the small sample size), and mention future research directions using the diary method in deception studies.

Peran Majelis Permusyawaratan Ulama dalam Meningkatkan Akreditasi Pesantren di Kabupaten Bener Meriah

Dayah accreditation is one of the efforts in ensuring the quality of pesantren education services. One of the strategies of pesantren in achieving effective accreditation results is collaborating with external parties. MPU and pesantren are organizations that have the same orientation, namely ensuring the implementation of values ​​based on Islamic law. The research method used is a qualitative diary method. Sources of informants are MPU management and several Islamic Boarding School leaders. The results showed that the MPU's role in the accreditation of the dayah included (2) advisors and policy deliberations related to the fulfillment of educational service standards as the main instrument of dayah accreditation; (2) strengthening external support through optimizing the dayah committee and strengthening organizational committees. The social implications of this research result in collaborative efforts in maintaining community stability. Through the accreditation system, it is expected to be able to improve the quality of education services held by Islamic boarding schools.

Digital Diaries as a Research Method for Capturing Practices in Situ

Digital diaries emerge as viable methods for capturing situated practices in research participants’ natural environments. This chapter reviews what has been learned about the affordances of diary studies from various research traditions and describes the researchers’ use of the digital diary method in different research contexts. Specifically explored is the use of digital diaries by drawing on the application of the method in studying nomadic work practices and how they help to reveal contextual details of nomadic work. The chapter thus outlines an ‘interposed approach’ where diary studies are preceded and succeeded by interviews with participants. Finally, the practical opportunities and challenges of conducting digital diaries are described.

Job crafting promotes internal recovery state, especially in jobs that demand self-control: a daily diary design

Background Research on how employees recover from work has focused primarily on recovery during non-work hours (external recovery) rather than recovery during work hours (internal recovery). Using the conservation of resources theory as a conceptual framework, we tested whether job crafting promotes an internal recovery state, and examined the processes that explain this association. Methods Using the daily diary method, 120 full-time employees provided information before and after work for 5 days by rating job crafting, ego depletion, self-control demands at work, fatigue and vigor. Results The results of multilevel modeling showed that after controlling for employees’ fatigue and vigor before work, daily job crafting predicted significantly better internal recovery (greater vigor and lower fatigue at the end of workday), and this association was mediated by lower ego depletion. The links between job crafting and internal recovery were stronger for employees with high self-control demands at work. Conclusions This study extends recovery research by examining internal recovery as well as job crafting as its antecedent. Further, the present study suggests that managers may consider encouraging and offering job crafting interventions for employees to achieve internal recovery state.

Characterizing and predicting the cross-app behavior in mobile search

PurposeThis paper aims to explore the users' cross-app behavior characteristics in mobile search and to predict users' cross-app behavior using multi-dimensional information.Design/methodology/approachThis paper presents a longitudinal user experiment in 15 days. This paper recruited 30 participants and collected their mobile phone log data in the whole experiment. The structured diary method was also used to collect contextual information in mobile search.FindingsThis study focused on the users' cross-app behavior in mobile search and described cross-app behavior's basic characteristics. Usage of communication app and tool apps could trigger more cross-app behavior in mobile search. The method of cross-app behavior prediction in the mobile search was proposed. Collecting users' more contextual information, such as search tasks, search motivation and other environmental information, can effectively improve the prediction accuracy of cross-app behavior in mobile search.Practical implicationsThe future research on cross-app behavior prediction should focus on context information in mobile search. Better prediction of cross-app behavior can reduce the users' interaction burden.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to research into cross-app behavior, especially in the mobile search research domain.

Rodzicielskie doświadczenia nauczania zdalnego w okresie pandemii Covid-19

Parents taking on the role of home teachers has become one of the most important issues faced by societies around the world during the coronavirus pandemic. This paper aims to describe and analyse family practices related to the remote education of children resulting from school closures under the pandemic. Through the thematic analysis of statements and observations related to home education, the authors search for changes in the perception of learning. Using practice theory and the diary method, the paper aims to show how teaching, hitherto delegated to external institutions, has entered the home and how coping with this looks from the parents’ perspective.

Acting for the Local Community: Hybrid Ethnography in the Careers of Local Culture Animators

This article focuses on the innovative methodology used to collect data. We describe how we have utilized the diary method and what analytical potential it contains. We also flag the limitations we have perceived during the research. At the same time, so as not to refrain entirely from a discussion of the study findings, we recreate selected shared attributes in the careers of culture animators. A hybrid research method was used to report and interpret the reality of our surroundings. This involved the use of a diary in which the animators described facts and events from the previous day while also plotting data concerning their location on the Google map; they enriched their notes with short essays, pictures, and video clips. Then, the animators as subjects in the research took part in one-on-one in-depth interviews to summarize their experience. Deliberations on the utility and innovativeness of these ethnographic methods are accompanied by considerations as to the variety of experience held by culture animators and the factors driving their occupational choices.