Henry Mainsah
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 185553 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Henry Mainsah |
| PRENOMES | Henry |
| SOBRENOME | Mainsah |
| ASSINATURA | MAINSAH H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7114-1762 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Design fiction as critical pedagogy for exploring technology futures in social research
This article argues for and demonstrates the application of design fiction in educational settings to engage an interdisciplinary group of participants from civil society and from academia in an educational setting in critical reflection on digital technology futures. It draws on insights from a series of design fiction workshops that we have facilitated with students and researchers, activists, artists, and other members of civil society in Denm…
Exploring Social Media and Children’s Digital Culture Through Creative Methods
Social media platforms have become significant spaces where young people socialize and participate in public life. Young people face increasingly complex social, moral and ethical questions and dilemmas given the way interaction happens in these spaces. However, the rapid changes in technical functionalities of social media platforms, and evolving social norms within user communities, have increased the complexity and multiplicity of meaning-maki…
Intra-Acting With Technology During Remote Fieldwork in Homes
The ubiquity of remote research practices and the increased adoption of videoconferencing tools are forcing researchers to pay attention to the features of these technologies and how they shape the research encounter. This article draws on experience from a Norwegian research project about digital vulnerabilities and living with smart home technologies. Participants were invited to draw floor plans of their homes, enact everyday routines, and per…
Methodological reflections on curating an artistic event with African youth in a Norwegian city
In this article, we remember experiences of our participation in an artistic event for youth of African descent in a Norwegian city to reflect on the potential of arts-based methods for exploring migrant and diasporic youth identities. Reflecting on the process of curating an event titled Afrikanske Dager in Drammen (African days in Drammen) involving young Africans in a Norwegian city, we demonstrate the methodological potential photography maki…
Detained through a Smartphone
International audience
I de sosiale ytterkantene. Konstruksjoner av kjønn og maskuliniteter hos norske menn i ufrivillig sølibat
Artikkelen handler om norske menn som identifiserer seg med å leve i ufrivillig sølibat. Det er en kvalitativ studie som tar utgangspunkt i intervjuer med syv norske menn, og gir ny kunnskap om et fenomen det er forsket lite på i Norge. Overordnet undersøker artikkelen mulige sammenhenger mellom deltakernes forhandlinger om kjønn og maskuliniteter, og interessen for antifeministiske nettfora. Analysen trekker på maskulinitetsteori og begrepet hyb…
Skinny as a Bird
This article explores the use of design fiction as a vehicle for critically reflecting on the complex issue of sustainable food consumption and production. The paper presents the design fiction Bird, a food delivery service that provides food rations to its customers based on their exact nutritional needs and self-improvement goals. The service makes food consumption sustainable by design, leveraging individual lifestyle ambitions to circumvent t…
Exploring creative pedagogies for research methods
This article describes a series of experimental method workshops that invite participants to enact speculative, craftful, multisensory and performative research techniques. The workshops have taken place across different European university venues with graduate students in a variety of disciplines such as digital humanities, sociology, design, media and art. Drawing on these experiences, the article argues that these workshops serve as an avenue …
Notes on Technology Devices in Research
This article explores the consequences of ethnographic practice when social and mobile media are used both as tools for research and sites of study. We draw on incidents from our fieldwork practice to reflect on the research intimacies that are produced when digital media technologies bring different spheres of researchers’ worlds in close proximity. We show how managing the unstable rhythms and temporal structures of ethnographic fieldwork pract…
Young African Norwegian women and diaspora
This article explores the ways in which Norwegians of African descent explore their relationship with the African diaspora through the multimodal practices of digital online media. Through the stories of two young Norwegian women the article examines how community, ties and ways of belonging are envisioned at both the local and the transnational levels, and at the intersection between online and offline spaces. These stories are drawn from a larg…
Reaching hard-to-reach users using online media to get a glimpse of work in marine contexts
research-article Share on Reaching hard-to-reach users using online media to get a glimpse of work in marine contexts Authors: Sigrun Lurås The Oslo School of Architecture and Design The Oslo School of Architecture and DesignView Profile , Henry Mainsah The Oslo School of Architecture and Design The Oslo School of Architecture and DesignView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 20Issue 6November + December 2013 pp 32–35https://doi.org…
I could well have said I was Norwegian but nobody would believe me’
This article addresses questions of identities on the web by examining how Norwegian immigrant youth use social network sites as spaces of personal expression and identity work. The data for the empirical analysis are drawn from a series of selected individual profiles authored by 16 to 20-year-old youth. Elements of text and images were analysed to explore how cultural identities were reproduced or contested in the process of self-presentation. …
I could well have said I was Norwegian but nobody would believe me’
This article addresses questions of identities on the web by examining how Norwegian immigrant youth use social network sites as spaces of personal expression and identity work. The data for the empirical analysis are drawn from a series of selected individual profiles authored by 16 to 20-year-old youth. Elements of text and images were analysed to explore how cultural identities were reproduced or contested in the process of self-presentation. …
Notes on Technology Devices in Research
This article explores the consequences of ethnographic practice when social and mobile media are used both as tools for research and sites of study. We draw on incidents from our fieldwork practice to reflect on the research intimacies that are produced when digital media technologies bring different spheres of researchers’ worlds in close proximity. We show how managing the unstable rhythms and temporal structures of ethnographic fieldwork pract…
Skinny as a Bird
This article explores the use of design fiction as a vehicle for critically reflecting on the complex issue of sustainable food consumption and production. The paper presents the design fiction Bird, a food delivery service that provides food rations to its customers based on their exact nutritional needs and self-improvement goals. The service makes food consumption sustainable by design, leveraging individual lifestyle ambitions to circumvent t…
Young African Norwegian women and diaspora
This article explores the ways in which Norwegians of African descent explore their relationship with the African diaspora through the multimodal practices of digital online media. Through the stories of two young Norwegian women the article examines how community, ties and ways of belonging are envisioned at both the local and the transnational levels, and at the intersection between online and offline spaces. These stories are drawn from a larg…
Intra-Acting With Technology During Remote Fieldwork in Homes
The ubiquity of remote research practices and the increased adoption of videoconferencing tools are forcing researchers to pay attention to the features of these technologies and how they shape the research encounter. This article draws on experience from a Norwegian research project about digital vulnerabilities and living with smart home technologies. Participants were invited to draw floor plans of their homes, enact everyday routines, and per…
Methodological reflections on curating an artistic event with African youth in a Norwegian city
In this article, we remember experiences of our participation in an artistic event for youth of African descent in a Norwegian city to reflect on the potential of arts-based methods for exploring migrant and diasporic youth identities. Reflecting on the process of curating an event titled Afrikanske Dager in Drammen (African days in Drammen) involving young Africans in a Norwegian city, we demonstrate the methodological potential photography maki…
Exploring creative pedagogies for research methods
This article describes a series of experimental method workshops that invite participants to enact speculative, craftful, multisensory and performative research techniques. The workshops have taken place across different European university venues with graduate students in a variety of disciplines such as digital humanities, sociology, design, media and art. Drawing on these experiences, the article argues that these workshops serve as an avenue …
I could well have said I was Norwegian but nobody would believe me’
This article addresses questions of identities on the web by examining how Norwegian immigrant youth use social network sites as spaces of personal expression and identity work. The data for the empirical analysis are drawn from a series of selected individual profiles authored by 16 to 20-year-old youth. Elements of text and images were analysed to explore how cultural identities were reproduced or contested in the process of self-presentation. …
Reaching hard-to-reach users using online media to get a glimpse of work in marine contexts
research-article Share on Reaching hard-to-reach users using online media to get a glimpse of work in marine contexts Authors: Sigrun Lurås The Oslo School of Architecture and Design The Oslo School of Architecture and DesignView Profile , Henry Mainsah The Oslo School of Architecture and Design The Oslo School of Architecture and DesignView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 20Issue 6November + December 2013 pp 32–35https://doi.org…
Young African Norwegian women and diaspora
This article explores the ways in which Norwegians of African descent explore their relationship with the African diaspora through the multimodal practices of digital online media. Through the stories of two young Norwegian women the article examines how community, ties and ways of belonging are envisioned at both the local and the transnational levels, and at the intersection between online and offline spaces. These stories are drawn from a larg…
Notes on Technology Devices in Research
This article explores the consequences of ethnographic practice when social and mobile media are used both as tools for research and sites of study. We draw on incidents from our fieldwork practice to reflect on the research intimacies that are produced when digital media technologies bring different spheres of researchers’ worlds in close proximity. We show how managing the unstable rhythms and temporal structures of ethnographic fieldwork pract…
Detained through a Smartphone
International audience
I de sosiale ytterkantene. Konstruksjoner av kjønn og maskuliniteter hos norske menn i ufrivillig sølibat
Artikkelen handler om norske menn som identifiserer seg med å leve i ufrivillig sølibat. Det er en kvalitativ studie som tar utgangspunkt i intervjuer med syv norske menn, og gir ny kunnskap om et fenomen det er forsket lite på i Norge. Overordnet undersøker artikkelen mulige sammenhenger mellom deltakernes forhandlinger om kjønn og maskuliniteter, og interessen for antifeministiske nettfora. Analysen trekker på maskulinitetsteori og begrepet hyb…
Skinny as a Bird
This article explores the use of design fiction as a vehicle for critically reflecting on the complex issue of sustainable food consumption and production. The paper presents the design fiction Bird, a food delivery service that provides food rations to its customers based on their exact nutritional needs and self-improvement goals. The service makes food consumption sustainable by design, leveraging individual lifestyle ambitions to circumvent t…
Exploring creative pedagogies for research methods
This article describes a series of experimental method workshops that invite participants to enact speculative, craftful, multisensory and performative research techniques. The workshops have taken place across different European university venues with graduate students in a variety of disciplines such as digital humanities, sociology, design, media and art. Drawing on these experiences, the article argues that these workshops serve as an avenue …
Intra-Acting With Technology During Remote Fieldwork in Homes
The ubiquity of remote research practices and the increased adoption of videoconferencing tools are forcing researchers to pay attention to the features of these technologies and how they shape the research encounter. This article draws on experience from a Norwegian research project about digital vulnerabilities and living with smart home technologies. Participants were invited to draw floor plans of their homes, enact everyday routines, and per…
Methodological reflections on curating an artistic event with African youth in a Norwegian city
In this article, we remember experiences of our participation in an artistic event for youth of African descent in a Norwegian city to reflect on the potential of arts-based methods for exploring migrant and diasporic youth identities. Reflecting on the process of curating an event titled Afrikanske Dager in Drammen (African days in Drammen) involving young Africans in a Norwegian city, we demonstrate the methodological potential photography maki…
Design fiction as critical pedagogy for exploring technology futures in social research
This article argues for and demonstrates the application of design fiction in educational settings to engage an interdisciplinary group of participants from civil society and from academia in an educational setting in critical reflection on digital technology futures. It draws on insights from a series of design fiction workshops that we have facilitated with students and researchers, activists, artists, and other members of civil society in Denm…
Exploring Social Media and Children’s Digital Culture Through Creative Methods
Social media platforms have become significant spaces where young people socialize and participate in public life. Young people face increasingly complex social, moral and ethical questions and dilemmas given the way interaction happens in these spaces. However, the rapid changes in technical functionalities of social media platforms, and evolving social norms within user communities, have increased the complexity and multiplicity of meaning-maki…
Sociology (8 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Social science (6 obras) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Aesthetics (4 obras) · Engineering (4 obras) · Ethnography (4 obras) · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (4 obras) · Media studies (4 obras)