TY - JOUR
T1 - Tracing communicative patterns
T2 - A comparative ethnography across platforms, media and contexts
AU - Lai, Signe Sophus
AU - Pagh, Jesper
AU - Zeng, Fiona Huijie
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - This article outlines a research design for a qualitative comparative study of communication across platforms, media and contexts – in China, the US and Denmark. After addressing the limitations in previous research on digital media in everyday life, we argue in favour of a comparative ethnography of communication that emphasizes the study of intermediality by taking a people-centred approach. The methodological design combines network sampling and maximum variation sampling with communication diaries and elicitation interviews. This design makes it possible to collect small and deep communicative trace data, to capture individuals’ unique linking of all the communication tools and channels available to them and, in turn, to identify the role of the internet as it interacts and intersects with other forms of communication.
AB - This article outlines a research design for a qualitative comparative study of communication across platforms, media and contexts – in China, the US and Denmark. After addressing the limitations in previous research on digital media in everyday life, we argue in favour of a comparative ethnography of communication that emphasizes the study of intermediality by taking a people-centred approach. The methodological design combines network sampling and maximum variation sampling with communication diaries and elicitation interviews. This design makes it possible to collect small and deep communicative trace data, to capture individuals’ unique linking of all the communication tools and channels available to them and, in turn, to identify the role of the internet as it interacts and intersects with other forms of communication.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - communicative patterns
KW - comparative ethnography
KW - diary
KW - elicitation interviews
KW - sampling strategy
KW - Ethnography
KW - communicative patterns
KW - comparative ethnography
KW - diary
KW - elicitation interviews
KW - sampling strategy
U2 - 10.2478/nor-2019-0019
DO - 10.2478/nor-2019-0019
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1403-1108
VL - 40
SP - 141
EP - 157
JO - N O R D I C O M Review
JF - N O R D I C O M Review
IS - 1
ER -