A Watson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 48576 |
|---|---|
| NOME | A Watson |
| PRENOMES | A |
| SOBRENOME | Watson |
| ASSINATURA | WATSON A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5826-8534 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 187 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1960 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Big Data Discourses| Data Feelings
People’s everyday encounters with digital technologies now create continuous flows of data, leaving digital traces that are algorithmically processed for several purposes. This article presents findings from a study exploring “data feelings”: the corporeal and affective entanglements people have with their personal digital data and the technologies that generate and process them. In online workshops, participants reflected on, defined, and discus…
Fanzines
Fanzines have a rich history within DIY creative practice. These small, independent, grassroots forms of communication and expression connect fans with each other and with their subjects of interest, creating cultures and generative modalities of fandom. Fanzines celebrate an interest and celebrate being a fan. This article reviews fanzine scholarship in two sections. It first overviews themes in research on zines, including a focus on politics a…
Zine-making the commons
This article was written collectively in the spirit of the commons and homemade, do-it-yourself (HADIY) creativity. It is animated by the observation that the once-radical suggestion of Raymond Williams that culture is ordinary forms the ‘commonsense’ of cultural studies. However, it argues that this remains a blind spot in the landscape of cultural policy and the creative ecology, especially as it pertains to the everyday creativity of ordinary …
Critical feminist zine-making as method and pedagogy
Zine-making is a longstanding grassroots feminist practice that merges creativity, activism, and critical inquiry. This article examines the methodological and pedagogical potentials of feminist zine-making and zines, reflecting on the Affect, Knowledge and Embodiment (AKE) workshop series (and zine) held periodically in Australia since 2018. We discuss our experience of facilitating this workshop series and co-editing the six volumes of the AKE …
Desire lines, queer cartographies and cartographic queers
Digital technologies have enabled communities to map and (re)claim space in novel ways and at significant scale. Queering the Map (queeringthemap.com), a community-generated counter-mapping platform for archiving LGBTQ2IA + experiences in place, offers a rich example of the potential of cartographic technologies and practices of storymapping. In this article, we share findings from an analysis of stories pinned to Queering the Map and interviews …
Vibes-based methods
Vibes are having a moment and academics seem increasingly serious about understanding whatever the vibe is. Many qualitative methodological approaches are already very vibey. This is especially true of those that engage with affects and atmospheres, social and sociotechnical imaginaries, and materialisms and the more-than-human. In this article, I reflect on these approaches and outline some vibes-based methods. I discuss how vibes-based methods …
Affective routes in interviews
How we elicit rich reflections from people about their feelings and experiences is a central consideration of qualitative research. Creative techniques of elicitation can open reflective dialogic spaces between participants and researchers, bridging memory and meaning. In this article we discuss participant-led explorations of a digital story-mapping platform as an elicitation technique in qualitative interviews. This platform is Queering the Map…
The promise of artificial intelligence in health
Emerging technologies of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making (ADM) promise to advance many industries. Healthcare is a key locus for new developments, where operational improvements are magnified by the bigger-picture promise of improved care and outcomes for patients. Forming the zeitgeist of contemporary sociotechnical innovation in healthcare, media portrayals of these technologies can shape how they are implemented, exp…
It's all about connecting
Human bodies and health states are becoming increasingly digitised and datafied through the use of digital technologies such as mobile and wearable devices, apps and software, electronic medical records and social media platforms. The ways that people learn about their bodies and health through their encounters with other people, living things and elements of the natural environment are often invisible in portrayals of digital health technologies…
The Sociological Review Foundation Public Lecture 2024
Opening Plenary
What matters in the queer archive? Technologies of memory and Queering the Map
Queering the Map ( queeringthemap.com ) is a novel digital platform: a storymap, an anonymous collaborative record, an archive of queer experiences. To contribute to the platform, visitors make their own mark by clicking on an empty space on the map. As to what visitors contribute, the platform's About section suggests, simply, 'If it counts for you, then it counts for Queering the Map'. In this article, we probe this guiding principle. What does…
Childhood Polyvictimization and Associated Health Outcomes
Background: Polyvictimization, the experience of multiple types of victimization, is associated with detrimental health outcomes. Despite extensive research on the health consequences of polyvictimization, one challenge in understanding this literature lies in the varied operationalized definitions of polyvictimization and health outcomes. This scoping review provides the volume of the current literature on this topic, documents the varied constr…
More-than-Human Wellbeing
Introduction The concept of ‘wellbeing’ is typically thought of in human-centric ways, referring to the affective feelings and bodily sensations that people may have which inform their sense of health, safety, and connection. However, as our everyday lives, identities, relationships, and embodiments become digitised and datafied, ‘wellbeing’ has taken on new practices and meanings. The use of digital technologies such as mobile and wearable devic…
The presence and perceptibility of personal digital data
Personal digital data are often imagined and experienced as invisible and immaterial phenomena, albeit with increasingly powerful impacts on people’s lives. In this article we discuss findings from an ethnographic project involving 30 participants in Sydney, Australia, directed at identifying their practices and understandings concerning their home-based digital device use and the personal data generated with and through engagements with these te…
A Qualitative Investigation of the Experiences of Women with Perinatal Depression and Anxiety during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Abusive Head Trauma in Child Maltreatment-Related Homicide Cases in the United States
Health information in creative translation
There are numerous ways that researchers can creatively approach social research and translation. This article discusses elements from the first stages of a novel project that centres social research translation in the form of a public exhibition. 'Creative Approaches to Health Information Ecologies' is a project by a multidisciplinary research team in collaboration with an Australian health consumer organisation. The project uses creative worksh…
Associations Among Age of First Experience of Violence, Type of Victimization, Polyvictimization, and Mental Distress in Nigerian Females
This study explored associations of age of first victimization, sexual violence (SV), physical violence (PV), polyvictimization, and mental distress among females in Nigeria ( n = 1,766, 13–24 years old) using the nationally representative 2014 Nigeria Violence Against Children Survey. Multinomial logistic regressions were performed. Nigerian females reporting SV victimization and polyvictimization were more likely to experience higher mental dis…
Research-Creations for Speculating About Digitized Automation
In this article, we present ideas about developing innovative methods for the sociology of futures. Our approach brings together the literature on sociotechnical imaginaries and the sociology of futures with vital materialism theories and research-creation methods. We draw on our research-creation materials from a series of online workshops. The workshops involved the use of creative writing prompts with participants across a diverse range of age…
The familiar strange of sociological fiction
Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude makes the magical and strange feel familiar, and short stories from Fiction @ The Sociological Review inversely make the familiar feel strange. I consider this ability to make the familiar strange as a key part of having a sociological sense of the world: as an ability to disturb what seems fixed and settled in society, and unmake any given set of social relations as the only and natural way …
Remote Fieldwork in Homes During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Restrictions on physical movements and in-person encounters during the COVID-19 crisis confronted many qualitative researchers with challenges in conducting and completing projects requiring face-to-face fieldwork. An exploration of engaging in what we term 'agile research' in such circumstances can offer novel methodological insights for researching the social world. In this article, we discuss the changes we made to our ethnographic fieldwork i…
Writing sociological fiction
The value of fiction for public sociology and within qualitative research is well established. However, questions about process remain. Drawing from three contemporary projects - a novel, a series of short stories, and a collection of micro-fiction - this article focuses methodological attention on how sociological imagination may be crafted in and with fiction. In particular I discuss the poetics and aesthetic form of a story: the language, mode…
What Happens Next? Using the Story Completion Method to Surface the Affects and Materialities of Digital Privacy Dilemmas
People's ideas and practices concerning their personal data and digital privacy have received growing attention in social inquiry. In this article, we discuss findings from a study that adopted the story completion method together with a theoretical perspective building on feminist materialism to explore how people make sense of and respond to digital privacy dilemmas. The Digital Privacy Story Completion Project presented participants with a set…
The Covid digital home assemblage
Major changes to home life and work practices globally have been brought about by the COVID-19 crisis. Periods of strict restrictions placed on people’s movements outside their homes, aimed at curbing the spread of the novel coronavirus, have meant that the home was requisitioned as a primary site for work for many people. In this article, we draw on case studies from an ethnographic project that explored how people living in Sydney use digital t…
Remote Fieldwork in Homes During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Restrictions on physical movements and in-person encounters during the COVID-19 crisis confronted many qualitative researchers with challenges in conducting and completing projects requiring face-to-face fieldwork. An exploration of engaging in what we term 'agile research' in such circumstances can offer novel methodological insights for researching the social world. In this article, we discuss the changes we made to our ethnographic fieldwork i…
Towards more-than-human digital data studies
As the number of digital technologies expands, entering more domains of everyday life, people's activities, bodies and preferences are rendered into constantly changing flows of digitised information. The interdisciplinary field of critical data studies has emerged in response. In this article, we outline the design and development of methods employed in our new project 'Living with Personal Data' as a move towards expanding the knowledge base an…
Enacting intimacy and sociality at a distance in the Covid-19 crisis
Significant restrictions on movement outside the home due to the global COVID-19 pandemic have intensified the importance of everyday digital technologies for communicating remotely with intimate others. In this article, we draw on findings from a home-based video ethnography project in Sydney to identify the ways that digital devices and software served to support and enhance intimacy and sociality in this period of crisis and isolation. Digital…
Reading for Realness
This paper adds to recent discussions of young people’s porn literacy and argues that researchers must address porn users’ engagements with, and understandings of, different porn genres and practices. As part of a larger interdisciplinary project which consisted of a series of systematic reviews of literature on the relationship between pornography use and healthy sexual development, we reviewed articles addressing the relationship between pornog…
The felt value of reading zines
Queering the Map
The rise of crowdsourced and participatory digital platforms which aim to make visible the experiences of otherwise marginalised people are significant within the broader landscape of digitally mediated community spaces. One example of such media is Queering the Map , a digital storymapping platform where users anonymously pin ‘queer moments’ and memories to places. While the mediation of affect and intimacy in digital spaces among queer people i…
Directions for Public Sociology
This article presents a creative direction for public sociology: novel writing. Narrativity is embedded within much contemporary sociological work, and sociologists and novelists share a number of complementary approaches for understanding and interpreting the social world. This article argues that novel writing presents sociologists with a process and medium through which they can expand their work for a more public, engaging, affective, and pan…
Methods Braiding
This article introduces a technique for doing mixed-methods research which I term the methods braiding technique. Contributing to established techniques for mixing methods across and within the quantitative and qualitative spectra, methods braiding incorporates arts-based research considerations. This aims to assist the growing number of researchers seeking to incorporate creative methods into their projects and add to established integrative, it…
Writing sociological fiction
The value of fiction for public sociology and within qualitative research is well established. However, questions about process remain. Drawing from three contemporary projects - a novel, a series of short stories, and a collection of micro-fiction - this article focuses methodological attention on how sociological imagination may be crafted in and with fiction. In particular I discuss the poetics and aesthetic form of a story: the language, mode…
Fighting for Another Fatherland
This article examines the Polish-speaking soldiers who served in the German Army during the First World War in order to resolve a longstanding interdisciplinary debate on the importance of patriotic ideology for performance in combat. Current research is divided on whether patriotic commitment is essential to motivate men in mass conscript armies, or whether purely military factors, especially so-called ‘primary group’ solidarity, can suffice. Wh…
A workplace intervention for increasing outdoor workers' use of solar protection
OBJECTIVES. Outdoor workers are at high risk of developing skin cancer. Primary prevention in this group can potentially reduce the incidence of skin cancer, and also potentiates the spontaneous remission of existing solar keratoses. A randomized controlled trial was conducted to evaluate a solar protection intervention targeting outdoor workers. METHODS. Outdoor workers were randomly allocated to an intervention (n = 65) or control group (n = 77…
What matters in the queer archive? Technologies of memory and Queering the Map
Queering the Map ( queeringthemap.com ) is a novel digital platform: a storymap, an anonymous collaborative record, an archive of queer experiences. To contribute to the platform, visitors make their own mark by clicking on an empty space on the map. As to what visitors contribute, the platform's About section suggests, simply, 'If it counts for you, then it counts for Queering the Map'. In this article, we probe this guiding principle. What does…
What Happens Next? Using the Story Completion Method to Surface the Affects and Materialities of Digital Privacy Dilemmas
People's ideas and practices concerning their personal data and digital privacy have received growing attention in social inquiry. In this article, we discuss findings from a study that adopted the story completion method together with a theoretical perspective building on feminist materialism to explore how people make sense of and respond to digital privacy dilemmas. The Digital Privacy Story Completion Project presented participants with a set…
Health information in creative translation
There are numerous ways that researchers can creatively approach social research and translation. This article discusses elements from the first stages of a novel project that centres social research translation in the form of a public exhibition. 'Creative Approaches to Health Information Ecologies' is a project by a multidisciplinary research team in collaboration with an Australian health consumer organisation. The project uses creative worksh…
Affective routes in interviews
How we elicit rich reflections from people about their feelings and experiences is a central consideration of qualitative research. Creative techniques of elicitation can open reflective dialogic spaces between participants and researchers, bridging memory and meaning. In this article we discuss participant-led explorations of a digital story-mapping platform as an elicitation technique in qualitative interviews. This platform is Queering the Map…
The familiar strange of sociological fiction
Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude makes the magical and strange feel familiar, and short stories from Fiction @ The Sociological Review inversely make the familiar feel strange. I consider this ability to make the familiar strange as a key part of having a sociological sense of the world: as an ability to disturb what seems fixed and settled in society, and unmake any given set of social relations as the only and natural way …
Zine-making the commons
This article was written collectively in the spirit of the commons and homemade, do-it-yourself (HADIY) creativity. It is animated by the observation that the once-radical suggestion of Raymond Williams that culture is ordinary forms the ‘commonsense’ of cultural studies. However, it argues that this remains a blind spot in the landscape of cultural policy and the creative ecology, especially as it pertains to the everyday creativity of ordinary …
The promise of artificial intelligence in health
Emerging technologies of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making (ADM) promise to advance many industries. Healthcare is a key locus for new developments, where operational improvements are magnified by the bigger-picture promise of improved care and outcomes for patients. Forming the zeitgeist of contemporary sociotechnical innovation in healthcare, media portrayals of these technologies can shape how they are implemented, exp…
It's all about connecting
Human bodies and health states are becoming increasingly digitised and datafied through the use of digital technologies such as mobile and wearable devices, apps and software, electronic medical records and social media platforms. The ways that people learn about their bodies and health through their encounters with other people, living things and elements of the natural environment are often invisible in portrayals of digital health technologies…
Getting students to ‘do’ introductory sociology
Blended learning and flipped classroom models are increasingly encouraged in higher education, where notions of flexibility and technological development inform institutional systems and strategies. This article presents results from an Australian study on redesigning and delivering an introductory sociology course using a combination of such models. Four central elements of the redesign are highlighted: overall course format; use of mini-lecture…
The Definition of Furtum and the Trichotomy
The following definition of theft is found in D.47.2.1.3 (Paul 39 ad ed.) Furtum est contrectatio rei fraudulosa lucri faciendi gratia vel ipsius rei vel etiam usus eius possessionisve, quod lege naturali prohibitum est admittere. It is repeated, but with a variation, in Justinian's Institutes 4.1.1. Furtum est contrectatio rei fraudulosa vel ipsius rei vel etiam usus eius possessionisve, quod lege naturali prohibitum est admittere. The Digest de…
Leukaemia risk and social contact in children aged 0-4 years in southern England
It has often been suggested that the observed excess of childhood leukaemia around some nuclear establishments might have resulted from unusual patterns of migration and popu- lation mixing, affecting the local incidence of
A workplace intervention for increasing outdoor workers' use of solar protection
OBJECTIVES. Outdoor workers are at high risk of developing skin cancer. Primary prevention in this group can potentially reduce the incidence of skin cancer, and also potentiates the spontaneous remission of existing solar keratoses. A randomized controlled trial was conducted to evaluate a solar protection intervention targeting outdoor workers. METHODS. Outdoor workers were randomly allocated to an intervention (n = 65) or control group (n = 77…
The Impossible Border
In this excellent book, Annemarie H. Sammartino offers a lively transnational investigation of how a shifting eastern border and mass migration contributed to a ‘crisis of sovereignty’ in Germany during and immediately after the First World War. Germans’ assumption that their nation, state and territory were coincident was destroyed when ethnic Germans were encountered in and beyond the Baltic, foreign refugees flooded into their country and form…
Fighting for Another Fatherland
This article examines the Polish-speaking soldiers who served in the German Army during the First World War in order to resolve a longstanding interdisciplinary debate on the importance of patriotic ideology for performance in combat. Current research is divided on whether patriotic commitment is essential to motivate men in mass conscript armies, or whether purely military factors, especially so-called ‘primary group’ solidarity, can suffice. Wh…
On the Date and Integrity of a Letter ascribed to D. Brutus
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Directions for Public Sociology
This article presents a creative direction for public sociology: novel writing. Narrativity is embedded within much contemporary sociological work, and sociologists and novelists share a number of complementary approaches for understanding and interpreting the social world. This article argues that novel writing presents sociologists with a process and medium through which they can expand their work for a more public, engaging, affective, and pan…
Queering the Map
QueeringTheMap.com, launched in late 2017 by designer Lucas LaRochelle, is a ‘community-generated mapping project that geo-locates queer moments, memories and histories in relation to physical space’. In a Google Maps-style interface, users can locate pins anchored to physical locations. Attached to each pin is a story. Collectively, there are tens of thousands of stories about being lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, non-binary, and gender non…
Getting students to ‘do’ introductory sociology
Blended learning and flipped classroom models are increasingly encouraged in higher education, where notions of flexibility and technological development inform institutional systems and strategies. This article presents results from an Australian study on redesigning and delivering an introductory sociology course using a combination of such models. Four central elements of the redesign are highlighted: overall course format; use of mini-lecture…
Reading for Realness
This paper adds to recent discussions of young people’s porn literacy and argues that researchers must address porn users’ engagements with, and understandings of, different porn genres and practices. As part of a larger interdisciplinary project which consisted of a series of systematic reviews of literature on the relationship between pornography use and healthy sexual development, we reviewed articles addressing the relationship between pornog…
The felt value of reading zines
Methods Braiding
This article introduces a technique for doing mixed-methods research which I term the methods braiding technique. Contributing to established techniques for mixing methods across and within the quantitative and qualitative spectra, methods braiding incorporates arts-based research considerations. This aims to assist the growing number of researchers seeking to incorporate creative methods into their projects and add to established integrative, it…
The Covid digital home assemblage
Major changes to home life and work practices globally have been brought about by the COVID-19 crisis. Periods of strict restrictions placed on people’s movements outside their homes, aimed at curbing the spread of the novel coronavirus, have meant that the home was requisitioned as a primary site for work for many people. In this article, we draw on case studies from an ethnographic project that explored how people living in Sydney use digital t…
Introduction
Queering the Map
The rise of crowdsourced and participatory digital platforms which aim to make visible the experiences of otherwise marginalised people are significant within the broader landscape of digitally mediated community spaces. One example of such media is Queering the Map , a digital storymapping platform where users anonymously pin ‘queer moments’ and memories to places. While the mediation of affect and intimacy in digital spaces among queer people i…
Enacting intimacy and sociality at a distance in the Covid-19 crisis
Significant restrictions on movement outside the home due to the global COVID-19 pandemic have intensified the importance of everyday digital technologies for communicating remotely with intimate others. In this article, we draw on findings from a home-based video ethnography project in Sydney to identify the ways that digital devices and software served to support and enhance intimacy and sociality in this period of crisis and isolation. Digital…
Towards more-than-human digital data studies
As the number of digital technologies expands, entering more domains of everyday life, people's activities, bodies and preferences are rendered into constantly changing flows of digitised information. The interdisciplinary field of critical data studies has emerged in response. In this article, we outline the design and development of methods employed in our new project 'Living with Personal Data' as a move towards expanding the knowledge base an…
Associations Among Age of First Experience of Violence, Type of Victimization, Polyvictimization, and Mental Distress in Nigerian Females
This study explored associations of age of first victimization, sexual violence (SV), physical violence (PV), polyvictimization, and mental distress among females in Nigeria ( n = 1,766, 13–24 years old) using the nationally representative 2014 Nigeria Violence Against Children Survey. Multinomial logistic regressions were performed. Nigerian females reporting SV victimization and polyvictimization were more likely to experience higher mental dis…
Research-Creations for Speculating About Digitized Automation
In this article, we present ideas about developing innovative methods for the sociology of futures. Our approach brings together the literature on sociotechnical imaginaries and the sociology of futures with vital materialism theories and research-creation methods. We draw on our research-creation materials from a series of online workshops. The workshops involved the use of creative writing prompts with participants across a diverse range of age…
The familiar strange of sociological fiction
Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude makes the magical and strange feel familiar, and short stories from Fiction @ The Sociological Review inversely make the familiar feel strange. I consider this ability to make the familiar strange as a key part of having a sociological sense of the world: as an ability to disturb what seems fixed and settled in society, and unmake any given set of social relations as the only and natural way …
Remote Fieldwork in Homes During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Restrictions on physical movements and in-person encounters during the COVID-19 crisis confronted many qualitative researchers with challenges in conducting and completing projects requiring face-to-face fieldwork. An exploration of engaging in what we term 'agile research' in such circumstances can offer novel methodological insights for researching the social world. In this article, we discuss the changes we made to our ethnographic fieldwork i…
Writing sociological fiction
The value of fiction for public sociology and within qualitative research is well established. However, questions about process remain. Drawing from three contemporary projects - a novel, a series of short stories, and a collection of micro-fiction - this article focuses methodological attention on how sociological imagination may be crafted in and with fiction. In particular I discuss the poetics and aesthetic form of a story: the language, mode…
What Happens Next? Using the Story Completion Method to Surface the Affects and Materialities of Digital Privacy Dilemmas
People's ideas and practices concerning their personal data and digital privacy have received growing attention in social inquiry. In this article, we discuss findings from a study that adopted the story completion method together with a theoretical perspective building on feminist materialism to explore how people make sense of and respond to digital privacy dilemmas. The Digital Privacy Story Completion Project presented participants with a set…
Childhood Polyvictimization and Associated Health Outcomes
Background: Polyvictimization, the experience of multiple types of victimization, is associated with detrimental health outcomes. Despite extensive research on the health consequences of polyvictimization, one challenge in understanding this literature lies in the varied operationalized definitions of polyvictimization and health outcomes. This scoping review provides the volume of the current literature on this topic, documents the varied constr…
More-than-Human Wellbeing
Introduction The concept of ‘wellbeing’ is typically thought of in human-centric ways, referring to the affective feelings and bodily sensations that people may have which inform their sense of health, safety, and connection. However, as our everyday lives, identities, relationships, and embodiments become digitised and datafied, ‘wellbeing’ has taken on new practices and meanings. The use of digital technologies such as mobile and wearable devic…
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