If internet practices vary so much
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2025 5:35 am
Can conclusions be drawn based on qualitative research alone? Yes, a researcher can see specifics and record certain phenomena, but it is quite possible that similar internet use occurs in other countries as well.
The question is what conclusions you want to draw and for what purpose. For some purposes, it is necessary to understand how the Internet is used in different countries. Or in different cities. Or people of different ages: the choice of subject of study depends on the question. In some places, it is necessary to observe one community.
But it is impossible to detect differences only in what we see with quantitative research. In the world of data, everything looks the same. This is another question about why offline research is needed.
Why is the territorial aspect the basis of the Internet research czech republic telegram course and expeditions of the Internet and Society Lovers Club, and not the gender, class, demographic or other aspect? So many philosophers have predicted the unification of space and the "death" of geography, and you prove the opposite with your research.
Certainly, different types of differences are important, but we decided to start with the topic of locality because it seems to be one of the most important and developing, relevant, one might say. Before our eyes, there is a transition from talking about the global network space to understanding the differences at different levels of locality.
In fact, locality is changing and being rethought, for example, there isgreat little text by Joshua Meyrowitz: it's about how our experience is always local because we can't be in two places at once.
But, of course, this is a big conversation, in which locality itself needs to be rethought. It is not surprising that they talk, for example, about translocality, you have already mentioned the term glocality. And I think that a new understanding of the local and the global will appear further: both political and scientific.
The question is what conclusions you want to draw and for what purpose. For some purposes, it is necessary to understand how the Internet is used in different countries. Or in different cities. Or people of different ages: the choice of subject of study depends on the question. In some places, it is necessary to observe one community.
But it is impossible to detect differences only in what we see with quantitative research. In the world of data, everything looks the same. This is another question about why offline research is needed.
Why is the territorial aspect the basis of the Internet research czech republic telegram course and expeditions of the Internet and Society Lovers Club, and not the gender, class, demographic or other aspect? So many philosophers have predicted the unification of space and the "death" of geography, and you prove the opposite with your research.
Certainly, different types of differences are important, but we decided to start with the topic of locality because it seems to be one of the most important and developing, relevant, one might say. Before our eyes, there is a transition from talking about the global network space to understanding the differences at different levels of locality.
In fact, locality is changing and being rethought, for example, there isgreat little text by Joshua Meyrowitz: it's about how our experience is always local because we can't be in two places at once.
But, of course, this is a big conversation, in which locality itself needs to be rethought. It is not surprising that they talk, for example, about translocality, you have already mentioned the term glocality. And I think that a new understanding of the local and the global will appear further: both political and scientific.