2012 - Researching online and mobile interaction and environments: Understanding space, place and time

Upcoming seminar: “Researching online and mobile interaction and environments: Understanding space, place and time”
23rd February 2012, 11:00-15:00
Berkley Square, University of Bristol. Fee: £20
Lead: Professor Carey Jewitt, Institute of Education, London
Aim and focus
This seminar will explore the following questions:
How can the use of different digital technologies change understandings of time, place and space in digital interaction?
How might this reconfigure and challenge social science concepts and methods for researching space, time, and place?
What concepts and methods can be used to analyze space and distributed interaction in digital environments?
How can research methods capture and analyze the flow of ‘materials’, time and dialogue in online interactions?
The seminar will explore key social science concepts of space, time and place pertinent to researching digital technologies and frameworks for analyzing scales of time and sequence in digital data. The seminar will be followed by two participatory workshops one focused on mobile technologies and space, the other on social media and time. These will use visual and multimodal research data to explore how digital technologies disrupt and reconfigure concepts of time, place and space and its effect on methods of data collection and analysis within social science
Who is this seminar for?
Early Career Researchers; postgraduate researchers and those interested in research on mobile technologies, social media, time, space, and place and digital technologies. No prior knowledge needed.
To register for this seminar please visit our online registration site
For more information on this seminar and other MODE training events please visit the website: http://mode.ioe.ac.uk or contact Anna Waring.
MODE is a node of the National Centre for Research Methods and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. Based at the Institute of Education, University of London, we deliver an innovative programme of research and training on digital data and environments. We are developing multimodal methodologies for social scientists, providing systematic ways to investigate all modes of communication used in digital environments, whether they are sites of learning, work, or ‘social’ sites (e.g. Facebook).
The objectives of MODE are to
Establish a strategic focal point for the development, delivery and dissemination of multimodal methodologies, training and capacity building;
Set up and carry out research in digital environments to try out and develop new multimodal methodologies;
Provide a coherent program of training and capacity building activities in multimodal methodologies for social science researchers;
Build a social science research community that enhances the UK’s profile and leading position in multimodal methodologies and digital technologies.