Research Methods for Digital Work and Organization
Investigating Distributed, Multi-Modal, and Mobile Work
Edited by Gillian Symon, Katrina Pritchard, and Christine Hine
Author Information
Gillian Symon, Professor of Organization Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London,Katrina Pritchard, Professor, Swansea University,Christine Hine, Professor of Sociology, University of Surrey
Gillian Symon is Professor of Organization Studies in the School of Business and Management at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research focuses on understanding digital work and organization as sociomaterial practice, and she specialises in qualitative approaches to analysing and understanding work and organization. She has co-edited four compendia of qualitative methods in this area, including Organizational Qualitative Research: Core Methods and Current Challenges (Symon and Cassell, 2012, Sage Publications). She is also co-founding editor of the journal Qualitative Research in Organization and Management (Emerald Publishing, with Catherine Cassell).
Katrina Pritchard is a Professor in the School of Management, Swansea University. She is a qualitative researcher who embraces methodological diversity and innovation. She has published widely on topics ranging from digital ethics, ethnography, and visual studies to multi-method research, drawing on her research in organization studies across the topics of identity, diversity, and technology use at work. With Rebecca Whiting, she recently authored Collecting Qualitative Data using Digital Methods (2020, Sage Publications).
Christine Hine is Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey. She is a sociologist of science and technology with a particular focus on the role played by new technologies in the knowledge construction process. She has a major interest in the development of ethnography in technical settings and in the use of the Internet in social research. She is author of Virtual Ethnography (2000, Sage Publications), The Internet (2012, Oxford), and Ethnography for the Internet (2015, Bloomsbury), and editor of Virtual Methods (2005, Berg) and co-editor of Digital Methods for Social Science (2016, Palgrave).
Contributors:
Mario Aquino Alves, FGV EAESP
David Antons, Aachen University
Adam Badger, Royal Holloway, University of London
Frank G.A. de Bakker, IESEG School of Management
Diane E. Bailey, Cornell University
David Barberá-Tomás, Universitat Politècnica de València
Stephen R. Barley, University of California Santa Barbara
Eber Betanzos-Torres, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Claudine Bonneau, UQAM School of Management, Montréal
Eliane Bucher, BI Norwegian Business School
Itziar Castelló, University of Surrey
Tania Pereira Christopoulos, University of São Paulo
Claudio Coletta, University of Bologna (IT)
Cami Goray, University of Michigan
Francisca Grommé, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Eduard Grünwald, RWTH Aachen University
Steven Huckle, Minima Global Ltd.
Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dariusz Jemielniak, Kozminski University
Paul M. Leonardi, University of California, Santa Barbara
Richard Rogers, University of Amsterdam
David Rozas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Saiph Savage, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Peter Kalum Schou, Norwegian School of Economics
Viviane Sergi, ESG UQAM, Montréal
Agata Stasik, Kozminski University
Carlos Toxtli, West Virginia University
Matthias Waldkirch, The EBS University for Business and Law
Andrew Whelan, University of Wollongong
Nina Willment, Royal Holloway, University of London
Adriana Wilner, FGV EAESP
Stephanie Zirker, IBM
Yinglong Zhang, Google