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The University of Texas at Austin
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University of New South Wales
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Publisher: OpenEdition
Date: 10-2013
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 24-10-2020
Abstract: This visual essay, along with the Black Screens photographic series upon which it is based, has two aims. On the one hand, it is intended as a visual exploration of the increasingly central role that mobile phones have in our everyday lives. In a time when digital technologies are ubiquitous in urban settings of developed countries, the images reflect, visually, on what this pervasiveness looks like. The other aim is to present suggestions of how methods borrowed and/or inspired by art and street photography could potentially expand the toolkit of ethnographic inquiry.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 20-05-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2016
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 22-07-2015
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2016
Publisher: SciELO Agencia Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo (ANID)
Date: 12-2012
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 20-05-2016
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-05-2023
DOI: 10.1177/13548565231174586
Abstract: This paper argues for a fluid approach to the study of agency in relation to algorithms, one that promotes crossing the boundaries of established analytical positions and breaking away from dualistic forms to frame its study. Building on various intellectual traditions, we develop three sensibilities for implementing such an approach: (a) working with tensions as an alternative to thinking about algorithmic power and human agency as an either/or binary (b) examining mediations to reverse the tendency to treat algorithms as an ahistorical and universal force and (c) exploring transversalities to navigate the spaces that emerge between various temporalities and levels of analysis. To make our case, we examine a crucial tension in the study of agency and algorithms, namely how scholars have either attributed power to algorithms or agency to users of algorithmic systems. The conclusion situates our argument for fluidity within larger historical debates in the study of technological power and human agency.
Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Date: 2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2012
Publisher: Universidad Autonoma de la Ciudad de Mexico
Date: 02-09-2005
Abstract: Conceptos clave de la vida cotidiana sufren transformaciones en su apropiación debido a los cambios que las NTIC establecen, principalmente la tecnologización y virtualización de espacios privados. De acuerdo con lo anterior, el texto reflexiona acerca de la concepción que se tiene del término realidad partiendo de las coordenadas tiempo y espacio, y realiza un pequeño recuento de los estudios que se han efectuado alrededor de la CMC, con lo que busca eliminar la fragmentación que existe entre realidad y virtualidad. La propuesta es un continuo entre estos términos descrito por el concepto de Realidad Mediada por Computadora (RMC).
Publisher: KOME Journal
Date: 2020
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-12-2013
DOI: 10.1002/9781444361506.WBIEMS193
Abstract: This chapter deals with ethnographic methodologies used when studying digital media, social contexts, and cultural practices. The chapter starts with an introduction to ethnography and its challenges when going digital. It then provides an overview of the different approaches to digital ethnography depending on the object of study: (1) the ethnography of online communities, virtual worlds, and social media sites (2) the connective ethnography proposal through online and offline field settings and (3) the ethnography of everyday life and the issue of audiences and creative practices in digital media. Finally, we discuss methodological issues relating to how to conduct online ethnographic fieldwork, including participant observation, interviews, as well as digital tools for registering, analyzing, presenting data, and some ethical considerations.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2016
Abstract: This paper draws together empirical findings from our study of hackathons in the UK with literature on big data through three interconnected frameworks: data as discourse, data as datalogical and data as materiality. We suggest not only that hackathons resonate the wider socio-technical and political constructions of (big) data that are currently enacted in policy, education and the corporate sector (to name a few), but also that an investigation of hackathons reveals the extent to which ‘data’ operates as a powerful discursive tool how the discourses (and politics) of data mask and reveal a series of tropes pertaining to data that the politics of data are routinely and simultaneously obscured and claimed with serious implications for expertise and knowledge and that ultimately, and for the vast majority of hackathons we have attended, the discursive and material constructions of data serve to underpin rather than challenge existing power relations and politics.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2015
DOI: 10.3402/JAC.V7.28073
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 24-04-2015
Abstract: In the digital age, it seems that participation has been conflated with literacy, content with engagement, novelty with innovation and ubiquity with meaning (e.g. see Thornham and McFarlane, 2014 Gillespie, 2010 Dean, 2008 Livingstone, 2009 van Dijck, 2013) and encapsulated in terms such as ‘digital native’, ‘digital ide’ or ‘born digital’. In turn, these conflations have done something to technology, which is constructed as malleable, a supportive facilitator, and the user, who is constructed as active agent. Neither of these account for mediations nor for – crucial for us – the notion of the imaginary, which emerges in our research as so central to expertise. Drawing on ethnographic work carried out in Studio12, a media production facility for young people with disadvantaged backgrounds in Leeds, United Kingdom, we propose that the concept of expertise emerges through a bigger array of social capital as well as traditional structures of power such as class, gender and race. Expertise is claimed, evidenced and generated. For us, however, expertise emerged not only as elusive but also because it was premised on a disjuncture between lived and everyday youth and the promises of becoming in a future orientated (technological, imaginary and creative) landscape.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date: 2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-01-2018
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-07-2015
Abstract: This article explores the relationality between women’s bodies and selfies on NSFW (Not Safe For Work) tumblr blogs. We consider the way selfie practices engage with normative, ageist and sexist assumptions of the wider culture in order to understand how specific ways of looking become possible. Women’s experiences of their bodies change through interactions, sense of community and taking and sharing selfies. This article provides an empirical elaboration on what sexy selfies are and do by analysing interviews, selfies and blog content of nine women in the NSFW self-shooters community on tumblr. For our participants, self-shooting is an engaged, self-affirmative and awareness raising pursuit, where their body, through critically self-aware self-care, emerges as agentic, sexual and distinctly female. Thus, this is a reading of selfies as a practice of freedom.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Publisher: University of Westminster Press
Date: 12-2013
DOI: 10.16997/WPCC.172
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2013
Publisher: Editorial CSIC
Date: 30-06-2012
DOI: 10.3989/RDTP.2012.07
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-07-2022
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-04-2016
Abstract: This article draws on research with young NEETs (not in education, employment or training) in Leeds in order to contest the assumption that technological qualities informing new media devices (here mobile phones) simply or transparently translate into social or ontological categories. We draw on a long-term ethnographic study of NEET in iduals to argue that one of the underpinning principles of mobile phones – that they pertain to mobility and that mobility is positive and agential – is called into question. Our aim is not only to unpack a number of concepts and assumptions underpinning the mobile phone but also to suggest that these concepts unhelpfully (and even detrimentally) locate mobile phones in relation to the technological possibilities on offer without taking into account what is simultaneously made impossible and immobile, and for whom. Finally, when we set the digital experiences of NEETs alongside the discourses around mobile phones, we find that mobility is restricted – not enabling, and that it is forged in, and articulated as part of an everyday life that is dominated by the social and economic horizons set by the groups status as NEET.
Publisher: University of Illinois Libraries
Date: 05-01-2020
Abstract: In this paper, we present a few ethnographic vignettes on the use of WhatsApp from a study in Mexico City. We suggest WhatsApp is a paradigmatic ex le of how a particular technology becomes an infrastructure to sustain, and therefore shape, a wide range of quotidian activities, from personal to economic, from spiritual to political. WhatsApp exemplifies what we call technologies of life, as such technologies mediate almost all aspects of social life. On this basis, we propose two interventions into the research agenda that go beyond data-centric approaches and focus on the lived-experiences of in iduals, families, and communities.
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2008
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-863-5.CH063
Abstract: The objective of this chapter is to present a general and retrospective panorama of the CMC studies that have been done in Spain and Latin America from a critic point of view. It is ided in three blocks that show a general description of these studies, its particularities and the principal authors in Spain and Latin America. The chapter establishes a general and introductory map to the CMC studies in Ibero-America and finishes with a reflection regarding its possibilities in the future. Being Internet in general, and CMC specifically world order phenomena, the present text aims to be a contribution on the connection of the studies written in Spanish and Portuguese and those in English.
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 10-2019
DOI: 10.1386/CJCS_00008_1
Abstract: The aim of this article is to analyse the role that images have played in the Catalan conflict, using the pictures produced in the days surrounding the independence referendum in Barcelona as a case study. As part of an ongoing research agenda on the role of images in social media, our goal is to develop a framework for the analysis of visual practices on social media in the course of creating and re-signifying images. The pictures analysed were taken in the Ramon Llull Primary School during the days of 1 October 2017 and 3 October 2017.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-10-2021
Abstract: Presenting an inventory of discarded Adhesive Bandages (ABs) in the city, this visual essay reflects on the pervasive presence of human traces, using the figure of anthropo-scenes. The ABs become a visual metaphor – what used to be a momentary relief for pain, a protective layer, turns into a reminder of the active role humans are playing in the earth’s destruction, a reminder of the tension between human power and their own fragility.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2018
Abstract: Data do not speak for themselves. Data must be narrated—put to work in particular contexts, sunk into narratives that give them shape and meaning, and mobilized as part of broader processes of interpretation and meaning-making. We examine these processes through the lens of ethnographic practice and, in particular, ethnography’s attention to narrative processes. We draw on a particular case in which digital data must be animated and narrated by different groups in order to examine broader questions of how we might come to understand data ethnographically.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 20-05-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-01-2017
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 13-03-2018
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 15-08-2009
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Date: 2014
Location: Mexico
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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