- Title
- Researching mobile phones in the everyday life of the “less connected”: the development of a New Diary Method
- Creator
- de Lanerolle, Indra, Schoon, Alette, Walton, Marion
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160413
- Identifier
- vital:40443
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2020.1813785
- Description
- This article introduces our mobile diary method, a qualitative method for the study of mobile phone practices. Adapted from the diary methods of psychology and media studies audience research, it is designed to foreground tacit and mundane data about everyday mobile phone practices. The diary interview reconstructs details of the social practices of everyday life that make up each participant’s “yesterday” and situates mobile practices within this account. To illustrate the method, we provide examples from our study, Izolo, that spanned three distinct South African neighbourhoods in different parts of the country and focused on less-connected people.
- Format
- 17 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- African Journalism Studies, de Lanerolle, I., Schoon, A. and Walton, M., 2020. Researching mobile phones in the everyday life of the “less connected”: the development of a New Diary Method. African Journalism Studies, pp.1-16, African Journalism Studies volume number 1 16 September 2020 2374-3689
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