Research methods for digital work and organization : investigating distributed, multi-modal, and mobile work / edited by Gillian Symon, Katrina Pritchard, Christine Hine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Symon, Gillian, editor.

Pritchard, Katrina, editor.

Hine, Christine, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Telecommuting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Digital work has become increasingly common, taking a variety of forms including working from home, mobile work, and gig work. Here, real-world research projects bring together innovative methodologies to capture its organizational, interpretive, spatial, and temporal complexity in an accessible sourcebook for organizational and work researchers.

Contents:

Cover

Research Methods for Digital Work and Organization

Copyright

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

The Editors and Contributors

1 Introduction: The Challenge of Digital Work and Organization for Research Methods

Gillian Symon, Katrina Pritchard, and Christine Hine

Part I WORKING WITH SCREENS

2 Wrestling with Digital Objects and Technologies in Studies of Work

Diane E. Bailey, Stephen R. Barley, and Paul M. Leonardi

3 Screen Mediated Work in an Ethnography of Official Statistics: Screen Theories and Methodological Positions

Francisca Grommé

4 Me, Myself,and iPhone: Sociomaterial Reflections on the Smartphone as Methodological Instrument in London's Gig-Economy

Adam Badger

5 The Heartbeat of Fieldwork: On Doing Ethnography in Traffic Control Rooms

Claudio Coletta

Part II DIGITAL WORKING PRACTICES

6 Digital Diaries as a Research Method for Capturing Practices in Situ

Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi, Cami Goray, Stephanie Zirker, and Yinglong Zhang

7 Using Netnography to Investigate Travel Blogging as Digital Work

Nina Willment

8 Autoethnography and the Digital Volunteer

Christine Hine

9 Research Methods to Study and Empower Crowd Workers

Saiph Savage, Carlos Toxtli, and Eber Betanzos-Torres

Part III DISTRIBUTED WORK AND ORGANIZING

10 Exploring Organization through Contributions: Using Activity Theory for the Study of Contemporary Digital Labour Practices

David Rozas and Steven Huckle

11 Thick Big Data: Development of Mixed Methods for Study of Wikipedia Working Practices

Dariusz Jemielniak and Agata Stasik

12 Images, Text, and Emotions: Multimodality Research on Emotion-Symbolic Work

Itziar Castelló, David Barberá-Tomás, and Frank G. A. de Bakker.

13 Structuring the Haystack: Studying Online Communities with Dictionary-Based Supervised Text Analysis and Network Visualization

Eliane Bucher, Peter Kalum Schou, Matthias Waldkirch, Eduard Grünwald, and David Antons

Part IV DIGITAL TRACES OF WORK

14 After Vanity Metrics: Critical Analytics for Social Media Analysis

Richard Rogers

15 Investigating Online Unmanaged Organization: Antenarrative as a Methodological Approach

Adriana Wilner, Tania Pereira Christopoulos, and Mario Aquino Alves

16 Tinkering with Method as We Go: An Account of Capturing Digital Traces of Work on Social Media

Viviane Sergi and Claudine Bonneau

17 Organizational Culture in Tracked Changes: Format and Affordance in Consequential Workplace Documents

Andrew Whelan

18 Conclusion: Reflections on Ethics, Skills, and Future Challenges in Research Methods for Digital Work and Organizations

Christine Hine, Katrina Pritchard, and Gillian Symon

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-260479-1

0-19-189267-X

0-19-260478-3

OCLC:

1281959920