THE IN(TER)DEPENDENCIES OF MOBILE ONLINE AND OFFLINE SPACES: REFLECTIONS ON METHODS, PRACTICES, ETHICS

• DOI: 10.5210/spir.v2021i0.12119
• Publication Date: 2021-09-15T20:47:58Z
• Authors: Katja Kaufmann; Monika Palmberger; Carolina Parreiras; Arianna Bussoletti; Francesca Belotti; Francesca Comunello; Stellamarina Donato; Welmoed Wagenaar; Juan Bermúdez; Moritz Schweiger; Jeffrey Wimmer
• Keywords: Affordance; Online and offline; Everyday Life

Mobile media technologies place users in digital (online) as well physical (offline) spaces novel ways, opening up new environments of affordances. In everyday life these mobile online and offline are increasingly interdependent interwoven manifold ways. Practices, experiences, meanings expectations negotiated across spaces, while at the same time they bound by respective logics limitations, leading to interrelations contradictions. The mobile, interlocking but non-converging nature involves issues access power struggles over in(ter)dependencies leads significant method(odolog)ical, practical ethical challenges for researchers, which current COVID-19 pandemic only adds complexity. Researchers confronted with questions such as: What appropriate designs study their intersections? Do call likewise methodological approaches? what ways can elaborated mixed multi-method capture complexity adequately without researchers losing sight specifics? And implications parties involved? Meanwhile, literature, specific associated researching intersections especially under conditions, rarely explicitly addressed. For this reason, panel presents a thought-provoking range five examples research into phenomena experiences dealing in(ter)dependence all levels.