Research Methods for Digital Work

Date:

25/05/2017 - 26/05/2017

Organised by:

University of Surrey

Presenter:

Organized by Dr Christine Hine (University of Surrey), Prof Gillian Symon (Royal Holloway, University of London), Dr Katrina Pritchard (University of Swansea).

Level:

Advanced (specialised prior knowledge)

Contact:

Christine Hine
01483 686986 c.hine@surrey.ac.uk

Map:

View in Google Maps  (GU2 7XH)

Venue:

Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford

Description:

As digital technologies have matured, various forms of distributed working have become commonplace. The contemporary workforce includes many people who move between different sites during the course of a working day or week, and who switch between offline working and diverse forms of online work and mediated communication and work in virtual teams. Organizationally sanctioned online communications and digital repositories are used alongside extra-organizational resources such as social media and informal face-to-face conversations. Professional and personal activities share communication channels, and boundaries between work and non-work can become blurred. Work is thus both spatially and temporally complex. This complexity provides many challenges for the researcher aiming to capture and understand these practices, tracking activities, and their meanings for participants, across multiple formats connected in an unpredictable fashion. This meeting focuses on a key question for studies of contemporary work across disciplines: how can we combine methods or devise new methods to capitalise on diverse forms of data, in order to build rich and theoretically-fruitful understandings of digitally-suffused working life? The meeting draws on expertise across a range of disciplines, including management and organization studies, sociology, anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, work psychology, design. informatics and HCI. We aim to promote a cross-fertilization of approaches across disciplines. Keynote speakers:

Diane E. Bailey Associate Professor in School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin: Wrestling with Digital Objects and Technologies in Observations of Work

Monika Büscher Professor of Sociology, Director of the Centre for Mobilities Research and Associate Director for the Institute for Social Futures at Lancaster University: Is IT Ethical? Mobile Work, Mobile Data, Mobile Methods in Crises

Richard Rogers Professor in New Media and Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam: Social Media Engagement: Beyond Vanity Metrics

 

Cost:

£60 (£40 for students/unwaged)

Website and registration:

Region:

South East

Keywords:

Frameworks for Research and Research Designs, Digital Social Research, Mixed Methods, Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Research, Frameworks for Research and Research Designs (other), Data Collection, Multimodal Research, Online Data Collection

Related publications and presentations:

Frameworks for Research and Research Designs
Digital Social Research
Mixed Methods
Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Research
Frameworks for Research and Research Designs (other)
Data Collection
Multimodal Research
Online Data Collection

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