Agreeing about smartphones: Making opinions in online focus groups

IF 1.6 2区社会学 Q2 GEOGRAPHY

Area Pub Date : 2022-10-26 DOI:10.1111/area.12850

Russell Hitchings

引用次数: 1

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the situated production of opinions in human geography research. Drawing on an online focus group project in which university students were asked to discuss smartphone use in urban greenspace, I'm interested in how our methods can make opinions as much as collect those that are already assumed to exist. Why were these students inclined to speak of having and sharing opinions? How important should opinions be to us if they are not actively influencing the everyday lives of those who we hope to understand in our studies? And what does this all say about staging effective group discussion in the discipline?

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就智能手机达成一致：在在线焦点小组中发表意见

本文主要研究人文地理学研究中的观点情境生成问题。在一个在线焦点小组项目中，大学生被要求讨论智能手机在城市绿地中的使用，我对我们的方法如何既能发表意见，又能收集已经存在的意见感兴趣。为什么这些学生倾向于谈论拥有和分享意见？如果观点没有积极影响我们希望在研究中理解的人的日常生活，那么它们对我们来说应该有多重要？这一切说明了如何在学科中进行有效的小组讨论？

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Area GEOGRAPHY-

CiteScore

5.20

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13.60%

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审稿时长

24 weeks

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