Following, Othering, Taking Over. Research Participants Redefining the Field through Mobile Communication Technology
| Autor: | Nanneke Winters |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Academic staff unit |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Cultural Studies
Focus (computing) Sociology and Political Science business.industry General Arts and Humanities media_common.quotation_subject Field (Bourdieu) 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography Social environment 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology Public relations Discretion Anthropology Ethnography Mobile telephony Sociology business 050703 geography media_common |
| Zdroj: | Social Analysis, 65(1), 133-142. Berghahn Journals |
| ISSN: | 0155-977X |
| Popis: | Based on fieldwork with migrants and border populations in Central America and the story of a young Congolese woman in particular, this article discusses how research participants’ use of mobile communication technology provokes a redefinition of the ethnographic field. Increasingly popular trajectory research often sets out to follow migrants, yet a focus on migrants keeping in touch with researchers at their own initiative and discretion, following them, reveals entanglements of selective on- and offline engagement and self-representation. Critical exploration of research participants’ differentiated use of digital technology for navigating a social environment that includes the researcher herself not only transforms our understanding of the field in empirical, ethical, and methodological terms, but also counteracts potentially voyeuristic and life-threatening practices of following people on the move. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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