Paper Info
Title
Narratives of new media in Scottish households: the evolution of a framework of inquiry
Abstract
The authors describe a study of the social dynamics of new media in Scottish households. The evolving project drew on dialogues with multiple household members elicited in group conversations. This approach to interviews captured different and conflicting points of view, a feature shared with certain social approaches to systems design. Analysis of the interview transcripts revealed that there are recurrent narratives and behavioral genres across households (and across sample groups), and that these reflect tactics, stratagems, and plans by means of which respondents navigate social space. The authors' approach contrasts with prevailing 'needs and uses" models in information science, in offering a methodological framework based on group narrative and genre analysis that contributes to a theory of social informatics in the household.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
3.0.CO;2-U" target="_self" class="small-link-text"10.1002/1097-4571(2000)51:103.0.CO;2-U
JASIS
Keywords
Field
DocType
television,internet,mass media,new media,interviews
Social science,Information retrieval,Media studies,Sociology,Information science,New media,Narrative,Social space,Mass media,Social informatics,Social dynamics,Information society
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
51
10
0002-8231
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
0.93
11
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Elisabeth Davenport1579.68
Martin Higgins2151.33
Ian Somerville3141.27