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Tracing Communicative Patterns: A comparative ethnography across platforms, media and contexts

Tracing Communicative Patterns: A comparative ethnography across platforms, media and contexts AbstractThis 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. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nordicom Review de Gruyter

Tracing Communicative Patterns: A comparative ethnography across platforms, media and contexts

Nordicom Review , Volume 40 (s1): 17 – Jun 1, 2019

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Publisher
de Gruyter
Copyright
© 2019 Signe Sophus Lai et al., published by Sciendo
ISSN
2001-5119
eISSN
2001-5119
DOI
10.2478/nor-2019-0019
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Abstract

AbstractThis 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.

Journal

Nordicom Reviewde Gruyter

Published: Jun 1, 2019

Keywords: communicative patterns; comparative ethnography; diary; elicitation interviews; sampling strategies

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