Vignethnographies : a method for fast, focused and visual exploration

In this chapter, we present an exploration of a digital visual method we have called “vignethnography”, which combines “vignette” and “ethnography” to produce a brief but detailed visual story that provides insights into the everyday lives of participants by focussing on a single aspect. By collaboratively generating research knowledge, vignethnography effectively draws on the contemporary digital moment, where due to the ease of producing and circulating images afforded by smartphones, populations of all ages increasingly share routines and events with relatives and friends, visually. We argue that vignethnography is effective for researching with older adults because of its capacity to gauge insights into their digital practices as well as narratives of place. We position vignethnography as an emergent methodology that contributes to experimentation and innovative methods in the social sciences and research in visual techniques afforded by digital devices

Vignethnographies:A method for fast, focused and visual exploration

In this chapter, we present an exploration of a digital visual method we have called “vignethnography”, which combines “vignette” and “ethnography” to produce a brief but detailed visual story that provides insights into the everyday lives of participants by focussing on a single aspect. By collaboratively generating research knowledge, vignethnography effectively draws on the contemporary digital moment, where due to the ease of producing and circulating images afforded by smartphones, populations of all ages increasingly share routines and events with relatives and friends, visually. We argue that vignethnography is effective for researching with older adults because of its capacity to gauge insights into their digital practices as well as narratives of place. We position vignethnography as an emergent methodology that contributes to experimentation and innovative methods in the social sciences and research in visual techniques afforded by digital devices

Disentangling Digital Divide and Trust

Part 2: eParticipation ImplementationsInternational audienceIn Switzerland internet voting is currently being introduced in a piecemeal fashion. Since the first trials in 2003 an increasing number of Swiss cantons is offering the digital voting channel to its citizens either living in Switzerland or abroad. So far the question whether the introduction of internet voting in Switzerland would increase the digital divide, favoring the well educated, economically better off citizens could not be answered in a conclusive way. As yet bi- and multi-variate regression analyses of survey data showed that general trust in the internet and in internet voting in particular outweigh the effect of the typical digital divide variables. There is, however, so far no study trying to disentangle the two types of variables by applying structural equation modeling. In the present study we test whether digital divide variables have a direct effect on general support of internet voting in the Swiss population or whether they should rather be treated as exogenous variables of general trust in the Internet and of internet voting in particular. We therefore put forward a structural equation model which helps us to disentangle direct and indirect effects on internet voting affinity. In order to test our model we are using the first Swiss population survey exclusively conducted on the topic of internet voting in April 2016

EU Digital Media Policies and Education: The Challenge of a Digital Agenda for Europe

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