Hitchings, Russell;
(2023)
Agreeing about smartphones: Making opinions in online focus groups.
Area
, 55
(2)
pp. 210-214.
10.1111/area.12850.
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Abstract
This paper is concerned with the situated production of opinions in human geography research. Drawing on an online focus group project in which university students were asked to discuss smartphone use in urban greenspace, I'm interested in how our methods can make opinions as much as collect those that are already assumed to exist. Why were these students inclined to speak of having and sharing opinions? How important should opinions be to us if they are not actively influencing the everyday lives of those who we hope to understand in our studies? And what does this all say about staging effective group discussion in the discipline?
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Agreeing about smartphones: Making opinions in online focus groups |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/area.12850 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12850 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | focus groups, London, opinions, positionality, qualitative methods, smartphones |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Geography |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10160050 |
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