Researching online and mobile interaction and environments: Understanding space, place and time (join a waiting list)

Description:

This seminar, organised as part of the NCRM "MODE" node, will explore methods for researching interaction in online social media and mobile environments with a focus on understanding space, place and time in digital technologies. It will explore the following questions:How can the use of different digital technologies change understandings of time, place and space in digital interaction?How might this reconfigure and challenge social science concepts and methods for researching space, time, and place? What concepts and methods can be used to analyze space and distributed interaction in digital environments?How can research methods capture and analyze the flow of 'materials', time and dialogue in online interactions? The seminar will explore key social science concepts of space, time and place pertinent to researching digital technologies and frameworks for analyzing scales of time and sequence in digital data. The seminar will be followed by two participatory workshops one focused on mobile technologies and space, the other on social media and time. These will use visual and multimodal research data to explore how digital technologies disrupt and reconfigure concepts of time, place and space and its effect on methods of data collection and analysis within social science11.00 Welcome11.15 Key social science concepts of space, time and place12.15 Lunch1.00 Participatory workshop 1: Mobile technologies - place, and space (Dr Niall Winters)This workshop will use the concept of mobilities and the example of mobile technologies for distance education within a health context to examine how mobiles support learning interactions.2.30 Participatory workshop 2: Social media: time(Professor Carey Jewitt and Berit Henriksen)This workshop will explore notions of time in relation to social media, specifically tweeting, tumbler, and blogs. It will examine how time is organised, regulated, and connected by and through these different digital environments. In particular it will ask what is dialogue in these different kinds of multimodal conversations.4.00 Plenary Question and Answer4.30 Close

Cost:

£25 (to cover catering costs)

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Region:

South West

Keywords:

Visual Methods, Qualitative Data Handling and Data Analysis, Interaction Analysis, Spatial Data Analysis, Time Series Analysis, Social Network Analysis, multimodal , multimode

Related publications and presentations from our eprints archive:

Visual Methods
Qualitative Data Handling and Data Analysis
Interaction Analysis
Spatial Data Analysis
Time Series Analysis
Social Network Analysis

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