Prince, Heather
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6199-4892
(2024)
A postdigital lens on outdoor research.
In: Simon, Kennedy Beames and Patrick T., Maher, (eds.)
Routledge handbook of mobile technology, social media and the outdoors.
Routledge Advances in Outdoor Studies
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Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 23-31.
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Abstract
Postdigital research acknowledges a symbiotic meaning for its social, cultural and technological components, rejecting technology alone as deterministic and instrumental. Pre-pandemic, much research in outdoor education focused on interactions with participants, leaders, stakeholders or policymakers, with technology as a means of data analysis. The shift to virtual environments due to the COVID-19 pandemic forced researchers to gather data virtually and via social media platforms. Evidence gathered from a small sample of higher education undergraduate neophyte researchers (n = 27) illustrates how they used their knowledge of familiar technologies to help them develop as researchers, assemble meaningful data sets and analyse them for successful outcomes. In a postdigital age, experienced researchers should have the confidence to encourage their students to explore different and hybridised ways of collecting data that embrace the co-constituents of practice. This approach may permit an expansive conscientisation of outdoor research in which there is a development, strengthening and changing of human consciousness of digital potential.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Routledge |
| ISBN: | 9781032434766 / 9781003367536 |
| Departments: | Institute of Science and Environment > Outdoor Studies |
| Additional Information: | Chapter 3 within book. |
| Depositing User: | Insight Administrator |
| SWORD Depositor: | Insight Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jul 2024 15:04 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Jul 2024 15:04 |
| URI: | https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/7792 |
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