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Title Research methods for digital work and organization : investigating distributed, multi-modal, and mobile work / edited by Gillian Symon, Katrina Pritchard, Christine Hine
Published Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
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Contents Cover -- Research Methods for Digital Work and Organization -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- The Editors and Contributors -- 1 Introduction: The Challenge of Digital Work and Organization for Research Methods -- Gillian Symon, Katrina Pritchard, and Christine Hine -- Part I WORKING WITH SCREENS -- 2 Wrestling with Digital Objects and Technologies in Studies of Work -- Diane E. Bailey, Stephen R. Barley, and Paul M. Leonardi -- 3 Screen Mediated Work in an Ethnography of Official Statistics: Screen Theories and Methodological Positions -- Francisca Grommé -- 4 Me, Myself,and iPhone: Sociomaterial Reflections on the Smartphone as Methodological Instrument in London's Gig-Economy -- Adam Badger -- 5 The Heartbeat of Fieldwork: On Doing Ethnography in Traffic Control Rooms -- Claudio Coletta -- Part II DIGITAL WORKING PRACTICES -- 6 Digital Diaries as a Research Method for Capturing Practices in Situ -- Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi, Cami Goray, Stephanie Zirker, and Yinglong Zhang -- 7 Using Netnography to Investigate Travel Blogging as Digital Work -- Nina Willment -- 8 Autoethnography and the Digital Volunteer -- Christine Hine -- 9 Research Methods to Study and Empower Crowd Workers -- Saiph Savage, Carlos Toxtli, and Eber Betanzos-Torres -- Part III DISTRIBUTED WORK AND ORGANIZING -- 10 Exploring Organization through Contributions: Using Activity Theory for the Study of Contemporary Digital Labour Practices -- David Rozas and Steven Huckle -- 11 Thick Big Data: Development of Mixed Methods for Study of Wikipedia Working Practices -- Dariusz Jemielniak and Agata Stasik -- 12 Images, Text, and Emotions: Multimodality Research on Emotion-Symbolic Work -- Itziar Castelló, David Barberá-Tomás, and Frank G. A. de Bakker
13 Structuring the Haystack: Studying Online Communities with Dictionary-Based Supervised Text Analysis and Network Visualization -- Eliane Bucher, Peter Kalum Schou, Matthias Waldkirch, Eduard Grünwald, and David Antons -- Part IV DIGITAL TRACES OF WORK -- 14 After Vanity Metrics: Critical Analytics for Social Media Analysis -- Richard Rogers -- 15 Investigating Online Unmanaged Organization: Antenarrative as a Methodological Approach -- Adriana Wilner, Tania Pereira Christopoulos, and Mario Aquino Alves -- 16 Tinkering with Method as We Go: An Account of Capturing Digital Traces of Work on Social Media -- Viviane Sergi and Claudine Bonneau -- 17 Organizational Culture in Tracked Changes: Format and Affordance in Consequential Workplace Documents -- Andrew Whelan -- 18 Conclusion: Reflections on Ethics, Skills, and Future Challenges in Research Methods for Digital Work and Organizations -- Christine Hine, Katrina Pritchard, and Gillian Symon -- Index
Summary Digital work has become increasingly common, taking a variety of forms including working from home, mobile work, and gig work. Here, real-world research projects bring together innovative methodologies to capture its organizational, interpretive, spatial, and temporal complexity in an accessible sourcebook for organizational and work researchers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 30, 2021)
Subject Telecommuting -- Research -- Methodology
Home labor -- Research -- Methodology
Form Electronic book
Author Symon, Gillian, editor.
Pritchard, Katrina, editor.
Hine, Christine, editor.
ISBN 9780191892677
019189267X
9780192604781
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9780192604798
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