The media go-along

Researching mobilities with media at hand

Bibliographic Data

ID2653795
AuthorsKristian Møller (0000-0003-0056-3471, University of Southern Denmark, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume32
Issue60
Publication date2016-06-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedieKultur Journal of media and communication research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0900-9671 • E-ISSN: 1901-9726
PublisherDet Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7146/mediekultur.v32i60.22429
OpenAlexW2463468376
LanguageEN
Citations received48
References cited7

This article contributes methodologically and theoretically to Christine Hine's call for a mobilities oriented internet ethnography. First, a 'media go-along', combining interviews and observations of a personal communication service at hand, is developed. Research participants give verbal and visual tours, framed by the researcher's discursively constituted invitations for orientation. Then, a theoretical framework integrating an analysis of media environment mobilities is developed. From research material on hook-up and dating apps targeting non-heterosexual men, it is shown how 1) research participants' navigation is materially contingent upon the medium and subject to momentary purposes and styles, 2) researcher presence and access must regularly be re-inscribed discursively, and 3) mobile media analysis, based on the media go-along's representations of verbal, material, affective, and kinetic aspects of social interaction, is useful in the analysis of socially-conditioned access to, and production of, single media practice and experience

Ethnography · Inscribed figure · Media studies · Mobilities · Multimedia · Service (business · Social media · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Visual media · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Social Psychology

Tools

Open DOIOpen Access