Johan Galtung, (1967): Theory and Methods of Social Research. London: George Allen and Unwin. 70s. Pp. 534.

ALASDAIR MACINTYRE

doi:10.1093/bjps/20.2.173

Johan Galtung, (1967): Theory and Methods of Social Research. London: George Allen and Unwin. 70s. Pp. 534.

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science ◽

10.1093/bjps/20.2.173 ◽

1969 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 173-174

Author(s):

ALASDAIR MACINTYRE

Keyword(s):

Social Research ◽

Methods Of Social Research

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Reverse mediations: digital methods of social research for digital citizenship

The International Review of Information Ethics ◽

10.29173/irie241 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 23 ◽

Author(s):

Marina Pantoja Boechat ◽

Débora De Carvalho Pereira

Keyword(s):

Information Technologies ◽

Social Research ◽

Social Reality ◽

Digital Citizenship ◽

Social Analysis ◽

Hegemonic Discourse ◽

Methods Of Social Research ◽

Digital Methods ◽

The Many

Our society is heavily mediated by information technologies, so the simplest interactions become traceable, which collaborates to a deluge of data. They represent an abundant source for social analysis and an unparalleled opportunity for citizens to access, produce and disseminate information. Nevertheless, all this affluence of data, for presenting itself in a scattered way, also poses significant difficulties for achieving an integrated view of social reality and its interactions, and is organized in many competing interfaces and information architectures, that may produce, reinforce and disseminate ideologies, hegemonic discourse and platform biases. We identify an emerging field of dispute of the place of mediation of the many flows of information, and efforts for repurposing and restructuring these flows over the seamless structuring of different competing architectures. In order to describe some of these efforts, we draw examples from the field of controversy mapping, and propose the concept of reverse mediation.

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