Smart speakers with voice assistants, like Amazon Echo and Google Home, provide benefits
and convenience but also raise privacy concerns due to their continuously listening …

How do people use media technologies in everyday life and how do they make sense of
them? This is one of the core questions in media and communication studies, gaining even …

After years of treating the human body in a disembodied manner or ignoring it altogether, the
body has become a thriving topic in a number of fields and disciplines across the social …

At a time when social forces are making instability a way of life, researchers are developing
new modes of enquiry that take account of the dynamic nature of people's lives. Approaches …

First published Open Access under a Creative Commons license as What is Qualitative
Longitudinal Research?, this title is now also available as part of the Bloomsbury Research …

Description: New York: Taylor and Francis, 2020.| Series: Routledge handbooks in applied
linguistics| Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019031974 …

This paper addresses ways of researching the pedagogy involved in building research
methods competencies in the social sciences. The lack of explicit and shared pedagogy in …

This accessible, alphabetical guide provides concise insights into a variety of digital
research methods, incorporating introductory knowledge with practical application and …

This paper addresses the perspectives of students of social science research methods from
a UK study of their holistic experience of learning during two years of their postgraduate …

This article aims to theorize digitally disconnected travel experiences by investigating
various emotional responses during the process of withdrawal and regain of technological …