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Research article – An empirical study about the significance of partnerships and how partners mediate and shape platform power published in the open access journal Big Data & Society. by Fernando van der Vlist and Anne Helmond Social media platforms are among the world’s most profitable businesses whose business models rely on digital advertising revenues. The […]
Reflections on using social media profiles in ethnographic research by Simone Pfeifer As contact restrictions tightened last year with the developing pandemic, ever more colleagues began asking me for advice on ‘how to do digital ethnography’, knowing that I had been doing it since long before the virus transformed life as we knew it. Their immediate […]
Pandemic audio diaries from two Rift Valley lakes in Kenya by Anna Lisa Ramella and Martin Zillinger In this post, we share the accounts of our research partners from Lake Baringo and Lake Naivasha in the Kenyan Rift Valley on how the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic impacts their lives and livelihoods. In mobile research with mobile people, […]
A digital mode of inquiry during ‘lockdown’ by Tomás S. Criado and Adolfo Estalella Ever since the COVID-19 outbreak unfolded into a major health and social crisis in Spain – first leading to, and later due to, severe lockdown measures – we have been taking part in a messaging group. Since mid-March onwards this space […]