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Title: | Mapping Situated Practice from an Insider's Perspective |
Authors: | Coleman, J |
Keywords: | ethnography;participant observation;research methods |
Issue Date: | 6-Mar-2024 |
Publisher: | University of Texas at Austin |
Citation: | Coleman, J. (2023/2024) 'Mapping Situated Practice from an Insider's Perspective', Flow. A Critical Forum on Media and Culture, 30 (4), pp. 1 - 3. Available at: https://www.flowjournal.org/2024/03/mapping-situated-practice/ (accessed: 17 March 2024). |
Abstract: | When I began my doctoral research exploring how community radio practitioners make programmes by sourcing, shaping and sharing content on-air and online, I already had decades of experience as a radio producer/presenter and volunteer. It made sense to research a field that I was passionate about. I decided to apply Theodore Schatzki’s framework conceptualising practitioner knowledge, know-how, and arrays of tasks as ‘social sites’ of practice. For Schatzki, a practice is situated in time and space, influenced by a web of understandings and conventions, relationships, emotions and expectations interlinked with access to the appropriate tools and equipment (Schatzki, 2002, 2017). In my data gathering, then, I needed to get as close as possible to my research participants. |
Description: | The images are available online. Image Credits:
Image 1: The Researcher reporting at Harpenden Xmas Lights in November 2017. (Author’s personal collection.)
Image 2: The Researcher’s Observational Forms for PhD research. (Author’s personal collection.)
Image 3: Participant observation at The Eye in 2018. (Author’s personal collection.) Flow is a critical forum on media and culture published by the Department of Radio-Television-Film (https://rtf.utexas.edu/) at the University of Texas at Austin (https://www.utexas.edu/). Flow’s mission is to provide a space where scholars and the public can discuss media histories, media studies, and the changing landscape of contemporary media. |
URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/28603 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Arts and Humanities Research Papers |
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