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Researching Digital Life James Ash

Researching Digital Life By James Ash

Researching Digital Life by James Ash

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A sophisticated introduction to the diversity and interconnectivity of digital space, technology, objects, people and data. It sets out the theory and methods needed to understand digital life and then links them to real world data showcasing their strengths and challenges.

Researching Digital Life Summary

Researching Digital Life: Orientations, Methods and Practice by James Ash

We now live in a world where all aspects of everyday life are thoroughly mediated by digital technologies. Making sense of digital life is accordingly an essential undertaking for social science and humanities scholars.

This multidisciplinary book provides an essential guide to researching digital life:

  • Orienting readers with respect to methodologies, research design, and research ethics.
  • Detailing key research methods, including interviews, surveys, ethnographies, walking methodologies, arts-based and participatory approaches, historical analysis, data visualisation, mapping and data analytics.
  • Demonstrating these methods in action in real-world studies that have investigated apps and interfaces, social and locative media, mobilities, smart cities, and digital labour and work.
The authors provide:
Non-Eurocentric perspectives and case studies from diverse disciplines
Annotated further reading to help you situate your research alongside existing research in your field
An outline of future directions for researching digital life.

Accessible in style and richly illustrated, the chapters provide a wealth of key insights and practical information to ensure research projects are successfully planned and implemented.

Researching Digital Life Reviews

"The pervasive digital mediation of everyday life presents unique epistemological, methodological, ethical, and practical challenges for social science researchers. This text offers researchers a thorough and greatly-needed critical review of these issues, along with vital guidance for undertaking studies of digital life." -- Sarah Elwood
"This book represents a pivotal moment in digital social research. By exploring a comprehensive range of questions, methods and means of data generation and analysis, it captures the present and future of social research. Thoughtful, thorough and reflexive, the text insightfully details how to make sense of our digital lives." -- David Beer
"Researching Digital Lifeis essential reading for anyone interested in investigating and understanding how the digital has become part of our lives. This excellent book offers an incredibly accessible and comprehensive guideto digital methods, and by introducing approachesfrom the social sciences, arts and computationalsciences alongside each other it also delivers the interdisciplinaryvision of digital research thatall researchers will benefit from." -- Sarah Pink

About James Ash

James Ash is a geographer and Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University. His research investigates the cultures, economies and politics of digital interfaces. He is author of Phase Media: Space Time and the Politics of Smart Objects (Bloomsbury, 2017) and The Interface Envelope: Gaming, Technology, Power (Bloomsbury Press, 2015). Rob Kitchin is a Professor in Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute and Department of Geography. He was a European Research Council Advanced Investigator on the Programmable City project (2013-2018) and a principal investigator on the Building City Dashboards project (2016-2020) and for the Digital Repository of Ireland (2009-2017). He is the (co)author or (co)editor of 31 other academic books, and (co)author of over 200 articles and book chapters. He has been an editor of Dialogues in Human Geography, Progress in Human Geography and Social and Cultural Geography, and was the co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. He was the 2013 recipient of the Royal Irish Academys Gold Medal for the Social Sciences. Agnieszka Leszczynski is a Lecturer in the School of Environment at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her work is situated at the subdisciplinary interfaces of GIScience and human geography and examines issues around geospatial technologies and critical GIScience. She has published a range of articles in leading Geography journals including Progress in Human Geography and Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.

Table of Contents

Orientations Introduction Methodologies, Ontologies and Epistemologies Research Design and Implementation Research Ethics Methods and Approaches Interviews, Surveys, Observation and (Auto)Ethnography Walking Methodologies, Walkthroughs and Audits Arts-Based Methods Participatory Methods Historical Methods Data Visualisation and Mapping Data Analytics Methods in Action Apps and Interfaces Social and Locative Media Mobilities Smart Cities Digital Labour Conclusion Final thoughts

Additional information

NGR9781529601657
9781529601657
1529601657
Researching Digital Life: Orientations, Methods and Practice by James Ash
James Ash
New
Paperback
Sage Publications Ltd
2024-03-22
328
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