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Melis Cin, F.; Madge, Clare; Long, Dianne; Breines, Markus and Dalu, Mwazvita Tapiwa Beatrice
(2021).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941211024824
Abstract
This paper lies at the intersection of discussions surrounding digitally mediated research methods and transnational research projects. It contributes to the current methodological debate surrounding online interviewing by focusing on tensions and affordances involved in Skype-to-phone interviewing in a transnational research context. While the Skype-to-phone facility does indeed increase further access to global participants, complex power hierarchies and ethical concerns continue to exist in relation to technological access/infrastructure, research governance regimes in different places and interpersonal research relations. We, therefore, propose that online researchers involved in transnational research projects using Skype methods move towards consideration of multiple competing constituencies and diverse social and spatial connectivities and power hierarchies in which they are researching. These social differences and spatial registers are not swept away through research conducted in a uniform virtual digital environment; rather transnational researchers must make explicit the multiple place-based contexts of their digitally mediated research, as they shape the research process in distinct ways. Thus, specific consideration must be given to ethical concerns that emanate from transnational online research.
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- Item ORO ID
- 78591
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1468-7941
- Keywords
- online interviews; digital methods; Skype-to-phone; GDPR; transnational; ethics; Africa
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies > Sociology
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) - Research Group
- Global Challenges and Social Justice
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- © 2021 F. Melis Cin, © 2021 Clare Madge, © 2021 Dianne Long, © 2021 Markus Breines, © 2021 Mwazvita Tapiwa Beatrice Dalu
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