Getting Connected: How Sociologists Can Access the High Tech Élite

Undheim, Trond Arne

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“…We addressed this problem by using a chain referral sampling strategy to yield a professional-demographic sample of relevant journalists, which provided us a way to access a network of environmental journalists. Recruitment was carried out until we reached saturation of themes [Bygnes, 2008;Undheim, 2003;Sullivan, 2004;Biernacki and Waldorf, 1981]. We began this snowball through contacts working as Bureau-In-Chief, Director of News, and News Editors in leading media groups, including Geo, ARY, Express and Dawn.…”

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Climate change news reporting in Pakistan: a qualitative analysis of environmental journalists and the barriers they face

Sharif¹,

Medvecky²

2018

JCOM

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Climate change is a global risk as its causes and effects are not limited to national borders, but the risks and the responsibility are not evenly spread [Beck, 2009]. Pakistan is facing especially severe impacts in the form of disasters, floods, droughts, rising temperatures, cyclones and rising sea levels due to global emissions, despite its national emissions being nominal and accounting for only 0.46% of worldwide emissions [World Bank, 2018]. Ironically, the level of public awareness of climate change is low in Pakistan compared to not only advanced countries, but also to other countries in the South Asian region [Zaheer and Colom, 2013]. A contributing factor behind this is the communication gap between the media and the broader public. This study aims to explore the factors responsible for the limited coverage of climate change in the news media, leading to confusion, uncertainty, denial and low levels of climate change awareness in Pakistan. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with media professionals and the findings show that political, economic, social, cultural, technological and scientific factors influence the news coverage of climate change issues. AbstractEnvironmental communication; Science and media; Science communication in the developing world

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Climate change news reporting in Pakistan: a qualitative analysis of environmental journalists and the barriers they face

Sharif¹,

Medvecky²

2018

JCOM

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“…As Taylor and Bogdan (1998: 90) note, in-depth interviewing becomes indispensable when social researchers cannot gain access to a particular type of research setting. Secondly, in-depth interviewing is the paramount research environment since it provides the researcher with immediate access to witnesses of a sociotechnical process by asking and watching reactions, restating questions, following up details or pursuing significant points raised during the interview (Undheim, 2000: 3; see also Fontana and Frey, 2005: 698;Taylor and Bogdan, 1998: 90).…”

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Energy behaviour as a collectif

Galis

Gyberg

2010

Energy Efficiency

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“…The main research strategy when attempting to research state bureaucracies and social elites is studying-up: literally, facing powerful organizations and state officials (Mills 1956;Undheim 2003). 2 Most references to this issue are to the technical barriers and challenges faced when conducting research in such restricted fields (i.e., access, establishing rapport, and interview methods).…”

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“…See for example: Aldridge 1993;Cleary-Yeager and Kram 1995;Hertz and Imber 1995;Herzog 1995;Hunter 1995;Knorr-Cetina 1999;Kunda 2006;Ostrander 1993Ostrander , 1995Priyedharshini 2003;Thomas 1995;Undheim 2003; Useem 1995. 3 Note that at-home research is not equivalent to studying-across.…”

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“…"Studying-up" refers to situations in which the researcher studies powerful organizations and those who occupy state bureaucracies' top echelon or hold key positions in power networks (Mills 1956;Undheim 2003). With "studying-across" we refer to research strategies in which the researcher and the respondents share social background or personal experiences that are interwoven into the research.…”

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Studying-Up and Studying-Across: At-Home Research of Governmental Violence Organizations

Gazit

Maoz-Shai²

2010

Qual Sociol

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Studying the military and other security organizations is challenging for both methodological and ethical reasons. Studying these domains "at home," literally in the researcher's own country, complicates things even further. This article discusses these intricacies by proposing a dynamic conceptualization of the subject-object relationship in the study of the military and security in Israel. This conceptualization illuminates the effects of the dynamic positioning of the researcher in four social fields: the academic, the militarysecurity, gender, and the ethno-national. The actual influence of these fields and their interrelations changes throughout the phases of research. We argue that when researchers and their respondents have similar ethno-national affiliation and military experiences, the dichotomous relations between them break down and give way to a dense web of expectations. This brings the researcher to maneuver between two, ostensibly contradictory, research strategies: studying-up and studying-across. The paper unpacks the complexities encapsulated in these strategies by discussing methodological and ethical dilemmas in two field studies on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict conducted by the authors.

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Getting Connected: How Sociologists Can Access the High Tech Élite

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Climate change news reporting in Pakistan: a qualitative analysis of environmental journalists and the barriers they face

Climate change news reporting in Pakistan: a qualitative analysis of environmental journalists and the barriers they face

Energy behaviour as a collectif

Studying-Up and Studying-Across: At-Home Research of Governmental Violence Organizations

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