‘I’m Not <i>with</i> You, Yet I Am …’

Hanna, Paul; Mwale, Shadreck

doi:10.1017/9781107295094.013

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“…Another advantage was the possibility to make screen recordings, providing detailed information on users’ tactics around algorithms that might not have been obtained as easily in-person. However, the use of Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) tools may exclude less digitally literate youth (Hanna & Mwale, 2017; Lo Iacono et al, 2016). With schools and public libraries physically closed during the peak of the pandemic, young people without a stable WiFi connection or quiet space at home may have felt discouraged to participate, a drawback of VoIP interviewing that affects youth from disadvantaged communities in particular.…”

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Experiencing Algorithms: How Young People Understand, Feel About, and Engage With Algorithmic News Selection on Social Media

Swart

2021

Social Media + Society

177

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The news that young people consume is increasingly subject to algorithmic curation. Yet, while numerous studies explore how algorithms exert power in citizens’ everyday life, little is known about how young people themselves perceive, learn about, and deal with news personalization. Considering the interactions between algorithms and users from an user-centric perspective, this article explores how young people make sense of, feel about, and engage with algorithmic news curation on social media and when such everyday experiences contribute to their algorithmic literacy. Employing in-depth interviews in combination with the walk-through method and think-aloud protocols with a diverse group of 22 young people aged 16–26 years, it addresses three current methodological challenges to studying algorithmic literacy: first, the lack of an established baseline about how algorithms operate; second, the opacity of algorithms within everyday media use; and third, limitations in technological vocabularies that hinder young people in articulating their algorithmic encounters. It finds that users’ sense-making strategies of algorithms are context-specific, triggered by expectancy violations and explicit personalization cues. However, young people’s intuitive and experience-based insights into news personalization do not automatically enable young people to verbalize these, nor does having knowledge about algorithms necessarily stimulate users to intervene in algorithmic decisions.

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Experiencing Algorithms: How Young People Understand, Feel About, and Engage With Algorithmic News Selection on Social Media

Swart

2021

Social Media + Society

177

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“…All the schools had a positive support rating from their respective national inspectorate. Although remote interviews were unavoidable due to social distancing mandates, an emerging body of research indicates that this approach compares favorably with in-person interviews in terms of disclosure and rapport (Hanna & Mwale, 2017;Jenner & Myers, 2019;Lobe et al, 2020;Mirick & Wladkowski, 2019). The semistructured interview guide was generated collaboratively and piloted with a headteacher not included in the sample to assess the time required, question order and clarity.…”

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Collaboration in Times of Crisis: Leading UK Schools in the Early Stages of a Pandemic

Hulme

Beauchamp

Clarke³

et al. 2021

Leadership and Policy in Schools

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This paper examines the political and relational dimensions of leading and managing schools in the early stages of pandemic-induced school closure in the four nations of the United Kingdom. It draws on in-depth interviews with 12 headteachers from primary, secondary and special schools. Headteachers used adaptive leadership strategies, including bridging, brokering and buffering, to recalibrate provision at pace. School closures demanded enhanced levels of coordination and communication around what mattered most. However, despite exercising creative agency, headteachers spoke of "clipped wings", with some feeling "vulnerable" or "alone" in attempting to mitigate often unknown risks amid constantly shifting guidance.

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“…Sound distortions and overlapping speech resulting from poor connections can be an additional frustration. Such issues are generally considered as disruptions of the interview that can affect professionalism (Seitz, 2016), rapport (Adams-Hutcheson and Longhurst, 2017; Hanna and Mwale, 2017; Seitz, 2016) and data quality (Hanna and Mwale, 2017).…”

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Relationality and online interpersonal research: Ethical, methodological and pragmatic extensions

Marlowe

Allen

2022

Qualitative Social Work

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The availability, affordability and usability of communication technologies have created new ways to conduct interpersonal qualitative research. Access to digital communications remains uneven, but the online environment provides an alternative, and at times a potentially preferable, research space. As Covid-19 has interrupted and disrupted the dominant assumption that qualitative research must be conducted in person, this paper outlines possibilities and reservations of online interpersonal methods. Though the standard ethical considerations of qualitative research hold true, we argue that these are necessary, but often inadequate, in the contexts of conducting online synchronous interpersonal research. Through centring relational and reflexive practice, we consider the associated pragmatic, methodological and ethical domains from feminist and virtual–material positional perspectives. Unpacking the complexities and possibilities of researching digital environments, we present six guiding principles to inform ethically responsive, methodologically robust and pragmatically feasible approaches to conducting online interpersonal qualitative research.

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‘I’m Not with You, Yet I Am …’

Cited by 29 publications

References 22 publications

Experiencing Algorithms: How Young People Understand, Feel About, and Engage With Algorithmic News Selection on Social Media

Experiencing Algorithms: How Young People Understand, Feel About, and Engage With Algorithmic News Selection on Social Media

Collaboration in Times of Crisis: Leading UK Schools in the Early Stages of a Pandemic

Relationality and online interpersonal research: Ethical, methodological and pragmatic extensions

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