Search results for "Thick description"
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Strategic agency and institutional change
2017
Strategic agency and institutional change: investigating the role of universities in regional innovation systems (RISs). Regional Studies. Past analyses rooted in the thick description of regions successful in constructing regional innovation systems have given way to analyses more focused on the intentionality in these processes, and how actors in regions with their own wider networks can shape these high-level changes in regional fortunes. As part of this, place-based leadership has emerged as a promising concept to restore both agency and territory to these discussions, but it remains under-theorized in key areas. This paper contributes to these debates by arguing that there remains a re…
Ocnos : revista de estudios sobre lectura
2014
Este artículo documenta los espacios virtuales que congregan diariamente a cientos de adolescentes y jóvenes entre 13 y 29 años para hablar de libros, lectura y de autores. En estos espacios intercambian lecturas, reseñan sus relatos preferidos en sus blogs, debaten sobre si el narrador es adecuado para la narración o se quejan de cómo se trata la lectura en la escuela. La investigación se ha realizado a partir del estudio de dos casos: los foros de Laura Gallego y la campaña de promoción de venta del libro Delirium, de la Editorial SM, a través de los blogs administrados por los adolescentes y de las redes sociales Twitter y Facebook. Se han analizado 1.466 documentos de 452 sujetos para c…
Technology Enabled Information Services Use in Tourism : An Ethnographic Study of Chinese Backpackers
2018
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the previously unexplored theoretical relationship between technology enabled information services (TEIS) and the value created by the use of such services. This paper presents a mixed virtual and multi-sited ethnography to provide a thick description of Chinese backpackers (CBs) use of TEIS. Participant observations and interviews of CBs in three different journeys within Europe were undertaken. Our findings illustrate that additional usage values occur when TEIS are used in a tourism context. Social influences and technical infrastructure play a stronger role than previous research presented. The study contributes to the literature by 1) providi…
Cuerpos de energía: Formas alternativas de ser-en-el-mundo
2020
Based on an ethnographic approach, this paper explores how members of a new age spiritual movement known as ?Llave Mariana? (LLM) build and experience their bodies. At the same time, it develops a thick description of their ritual practices and later it analyzes, delving fundamentally into the phenomenological perspective, how these members shape and transform their forms of self-perception, experience, and representation of others and the environment. Finally, it considers the implications these spiritual practices have in the search and consolidation of alternative ways of being-in-the-world