Researching (im)mobile lives during a lockdown: Reconceptualizing remote interviews as field events

IF 1.5 2区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

International Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-14 DOI:10.1177/13678779231157428

E. Cabalquinto, T. Ahlin

引用次数: 1

Abstract

This article foregrounds the benefits and challenges of deploying remote interviews to investigate the digital practices of older adults from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds during a series of stay-at-home orders in in 2020 and 2021 in Victoria, Australia. By critically examining the employment of technologically mediated data collection (via video and phone call), we reconceptualize remote fieldwork as a collection of ethnographically significant field events. We draw on the socio material approach to map the impact of human–digital assemblage on the processes, possibilities and limits of collecting data remotely. The study reveals the ways participants' differing digital access, competencies, and social relations engender and undermine methodological interventions. Indeed, it offers a nuanced perspective on deploying remote fieldwork especially among older migrants in an increasingly digital world.

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研究封锁期间的移动生活：将远程采访重新定义为现场活动

这篇文章强调了在2020年和2021年澳大利亚维多利亚州的一系列居家令中，部署远程采访来调查来自文化和语言多样性（CALD）背景的老年人的数字实践的好处和挑战。通过批判性地研究技术中介数据收集的使用（通过视频和电话），我们将远程实地调查重新定义为一组具有民族志意义的实地事件。我们利用社会物质方法来绘制人类-数字组合对远程收集数据的过程、可能性和限制的影响。该研究揭示了参与者不同的数字访问、能力和社会关系如何产生和破坏方法干预。事实上，它为部署远程实地调查提供了一个微妙的视角，尤其是在日益数字化的世界中，在老年移民中。

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International Journal of Cultural Studies Multiple-

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4.20

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9.50%

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期刊介绍： International Journal of Cultural Studies is committed to rethinking cultural practices, processes, texts and infrastructures beyond traditional national frameworks and regional biases. The journal publishes theoretical, empirical and historical analyses that interrogate what culture means, and what culture does, across global and local scales of power and action, diverse technologies and forms of mediation, and multiple dimensions of performance, experience and identity. Dedicated to theoretical and methodological innovation in cultural research, the journal is multidisciplinary in outlook, publishing relevant contributions that integrate approaches from the social sciences, humanities, information sciences and more. International Journal of Cultural Studies publishes original research articles. The journal gives preference to papers that extend existing theory or generate new theory through interpretive engagement with empirical cases. Papers based on single country case-studies should clearly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses for an international readership. The journal does not publish close readings of single texts; but it does consider critical, contextualised readings that similarly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses to the field. International Journal of Cultural Studies regularly publishes special issues on urgent questions in the field as well as on specific regions, industries and practices.