TY  - CHAP
AB  - Purpose To discuss two research projects, illuminating the ways in which digital technologies are both enfolded into people’s lives and open up new possibilities for practice that, in turn, have to be managed. To revisit this material to reflect on the benefits and limitations of in-depth interviewing for understanding the dynamics of new textual and visual forms of data in everyday life.Approach A broadly relational approach to technology and practice was employed, pursued through in-depth interviewing in two research projects about digitization and memory making.Findings In employing the qualitative method of in-depth interviewing to focus upon what people regularly do, the chapter shows how the material and mediating capacities of networked digital technologies such as cameras and smartphones are enacted and actively negotiated in relation to expectations and conventions about the temporality and visibility of personal life through diverse memory practices. These can be considered multiple ‘practices of adaptation’.Value The research reported on provides some novel ways of thinking about devices and data in relation to practice.
VL  - 13
SN  - 978-1-78441-050-6, 978-1-78441-051-3/1042-3192
DO  - 10.1108/S1042-319220140000013013
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1042-319220140000013013
AU  - Hand Martin
PY  - 2014
Y1  - 2014/01/01
TI  - Digitization and Memory: Researching Practices of Adaption to Visual and Textual Data in Everyday Life
T2  - Big Data? Qualitative Approaches to Digital Research
T3  - Studies in Qualitative Methodology
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 205
EP  - 227
Y2  - 2024/09/20
ER  -