Using situational maps when mapping ’the Nexus of Practice’ in a Nexus Analysis

1. Making a Mess with Situational Analysis - Usingsituationalmapswhenmapping ’the Nexus of Practice’ in a NexusAnalysis HCCI Wednesday seminar, May 12th 2010

2. “Understanding Youth and Online Social Networking” How do youth (aged 12-18) use SNSs as part of everyday life? How do they account for their use and experiences? Which strategies do they apply in order to be understood? PhDproject

3. Five years of virtual ethnography (participant observation) on SNSs – especially Arto and Facebook Fieldnotes and screenshots Informal conversations and interviews 2400 answers to an open-ended questionnaire … and more Data

4. My ”data archive” Inspired by Rapley (2007)

5. NexusAnalysis (Scollon & Scollon, 2004) “…a nexus analysis is the mapping of semiotic cycles of people, discourses, places, and mediational means involved in the social action we are studying.” (Scollon & Scollon, 2004, p. viii) Methodological and theoretical framework

6. NexusAnalysis (Scollon & Scollon, 2004) “…in some real sense just about everything we might know about can circulate through any particular moment of human action” (Scollon & Scollon, 2004, p. 19) Methodological and theoretical framework

7. NexusAnalysis (Scollon & Scollon, 2004) The problem of ’context’: Too often ‘context’ is: ‘All that which we haven't studied yet at all but which we are quite sure we know something about.’ Context should be understood as ”pathways into and out of the research moment that we explicitly examine” (R. Scollon, 2008) Methodological and theoretical framework

8. NexusAnalysis (Scollon & Scollon, 2004) Analysing a ’Nexus of Practice”: The field where social actions, actors and discourses meet and unfold “a recognizable grouping of a set of mediated actions“ "a genre of activity and the group of people who engage in that activity“ (R. Scollon, 2001, p. 150)  Analysing Danish youngsters’ use of SNSs as a nexus of practice Methodological and theoretical framework

9. NexusAnalysis (Scollon & Scollon, 2004) Three central activitiesortasks in a NexusAnalysis: Methodological and theoretical framework

10. 1st step whennavigating the Nexus of Practice: “you should make broad-stroke maps of the nexus of practice to begin with” (R. Scollon & S. W. Scollon, 2004, p. 171) “sketch out a map of the many semiotic or discourse cycles that are circulating through the moment of social action which we are studying” (R. Scollon & S. W. Scollon, 2004, p. 87) BUT HOW?  Clarke’s (2005) Situational Analysis and Situational Mappings Analysis (Navigating the Nexus of Practice)

11. SituationalAnalysis Map out “the complex situations of inquirybroadlyconceived” (Clarke & Friese, 2007, p. 366) ”The conditions of the situation are in the situation. There is no such thing as “context” (Clarke, 2005, p. 71) ”deeply situate research projects individually, collectively, organizationally, institutionally, temporally, geographically, materially, discursively, culturally, symbolically, visually and historically” (Clarke, 2005, p. xxii) Mapping the Nexus of Practice

12. Three kinds of maps: 1. situational maps that lay out the major human, nonhuman, discursive and other elements in the research 2. social worlds/arenas maps that lay out the key collective actors and the arena(s) of commitment and discourse within which they are engaged 3. positional maps that lay out the major positions taken, and not taken, in the data (Clarke, 2005) Mapping the Nexus of Practice

13. 1a. Messysituationalmap: Reaveal “the stunningmessiness of social life” (Clarke & Friese, 2007, p. 370) Mapping the Nexus of Practice Map created with www.mindmeister.com

14. 1b. Orderedsituationalmap: Mapping the Nexus of Practice Map created with www.mindmeister.com

15. 1c. Quick and dirtyrelationalanalysis: Mapping the Nexus of Practice Map created with www.mindmeister.com

16. 2.Social worlds/arenasmap: “groups with shared commitments to certain activities sharing resources of many kinds to achieve their goals” (Clarke, 2005, pp. 45-46) Mapping the Nexus of Practice Map created with www.gliffy.com

17. 3.Positionalmap: “represent the positions articulated on their own terms” (Clarke, 2005, p. 126) Mapping the Nexus of Practice Map created with www.lovelycharts.com

18. How have situational maps helped me in my nexus analysis: To gain an overview of my nexus of practice To be aware of the ’context’ To take socio-cultural elements into account To ’open up’ the analysis To chose pathways to follow when navigating the nexus of practice Or maybe I’m just making a mess...? :-) Reflections

19. Clarke, A. E. (2005). Situational analysis: Grounded Theory after the Postmodern Turn. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. Clarke, A. E., & Friese, C. (2007). Grounded Theorizing Using Situational Analysis. In A. B. D. Bryant & K. Charmaz (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Grounded Theory (pp. 363-397). London: SAGE. Jones, R. H., & Norris, S. (2005). Discourse as action/discourse in action. In S. Norris & R. H. Jones (Eds.), Discourse in Action. Introducing mediated discourse analysis (pp. 3-14). London: Routledge. Rapley, T. (2007). Doing Conversation, Discourse and Document Analysis. The SAGE Qualitative Research Kit. London: Sage Publications. Scollon, R. (2001a). Action and Text: Towards an integrated understanding of the place of text in social (inter)action, mediated discourse analysis and the problem of social action. In R. Wodak & M. Meyer (Eds.), Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis (pp. 139-183). London: Sage Publications. Scollon, R. (2001b). Mediated discourse: The Nexus of Practice. London; New York: Routledge. Scollon, R. (2008, January 28). Re: DOCTORAL WORKSHOP with Ron Scollon: Global Media and Local Perception. Scollon, R., & Scollon, S. W. (2004). Nexus Analysis: Discourse and the Emerging Internet. London; New York: Routledge. References