A Living Journals Approach for the Remote Study of Young Children's Digital Practices in Azerbaijan

Autor/in	Savadova, Sabina
Titel	A Living Journals Approach for the Remote Study of Young Children's Digital Practices in Azerbaijan
Quelle	In: Global Studies of Childhood, 13 (2023) 1, S.64-78 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Savadova, Sabina)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
DOI	10.1177/20436106211034179
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Information Technology; Preschool Children; Child Behavior; Computer Use; Interests; Family Involvement; Parent Attitudes; Data Collection; Diaries; Azerbaijan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Informationstechnologie; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Bildungsinteresse; Elternverhalten; Data capture; Datensammlung; Diary; Tagebuch; Aserbaidschan
Abstract	This article proposes the living journals method for remotely studying participants, elevating participant agency in the data generation process and minimising or completely removing the need for a researcher to be physically present in the field. Employing this method, the paper describes how the method was used to explore 5-year-old children's digital practices in five families in Azerbaijan. Mothers were assigned as 'proxy' researchers to generate the data following prompts sent through a smartphone application. Mothers' answers were used to create journals, and subsequently, fathers separately, and mothers and children together were requested to interpret their own journals and those of other participant children. Allowing other families to comment on one another's journals further revealed their attitudes towards using digital technologies and enriched the data, emphasising its multivocality and metatextuality. The article describes the living journals method in detail, highlighting its affordances for researchers to generate data from a distance in other contexts. The article also discusses the methodological and empirical contribution of the method to this study about young children's engagements with digital media at home. By decentring the researcher in the data generation process, the method allows researchers to generate both visually and textually complex and rich data. The visual and personal nature of the method goes beyond text-based research accounts to bring the data to life, allowing the researcher to generate multimodal, multivocal, metatextual and multifunctional data. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01