2017
DOI: 10.17572/mj2017.1.4451
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On The Value of Longitudinal Media Ethnography and a Response to Postill

Abstract: Ethnographic examinations of media and social change can focus too narrowly on the changes taking place at the time of introduction of a new communication technology and thus can end up being incredibly short-sighted and celebratory in their approach. Postill argues that inquiries into media's role in social change should not be done through time-constrained ethnographic methods, but rather should follow a more biographical model that better accounts for ongoing social change. In response to his essay in this … Show more

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“…Inclusion of Firms B-I yielded a further 985 B2B posts for a three-year period from 2018 to 2021. In analysing the firms’ Facebook posts over a three-year period, we add a temporal dimension to our research, liberating our data from the time constraints associated with interview transcripts or snapshot observations (Algan, 2017) and building on previous entrepreneurial firm identity research through considering SM identity construction activities (Drori et al , 2009). Collection of SM data from the platform was undertaken manually by the researchers…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Inclusion of Firms B-I yielded a further 985 B2B posts for a three-year period from 2018 to 2021. In analysing the firms’ Facebook posts over a three-year period, we add a temporal dimension to our research, liberating our data from the time constraints associated with interview transcripts or snapshot observations (Algan, 2017) and building on previous entrepreneurial firm identity research through considering SM identity construction activities (Drori et al , 2009). Collection of SM data from the platform was undertaken manually by the researchers…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%