In this post Dr Reka Solymosi & Dr Michael Chataway discuss the use of mobile phone applications as a research method in the social sciences. Reflecting on their own use of apps to study fear of crime, they highlight the methodological advantages of incorporating apps into research designs and provide four key points to consider for researchers see...
Published in Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie
Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung wird in zunehmendem Maße durch Forschungsinfrastrukturen unterstützt, die empirische Forschungsdaten sammeln und zur Nachnutzung für die wissenschaftliche Gemeinschaft bereitstellen. 2016 wurde zu diesem Zweck AUSSDA – The Austrian Social Science Data Archive gegründet. Im ersten Abschnitt dieses Forschungsberichts...
social representations about the potential contribution of educational technologies, in particular the massive open online courses (MOOCs), to comply with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A questionnaire validated by three Spanish universities is applied, and a quantitative analysis of the data is used. The results obtained inform the educ...
Security procedures are considered a critical component of an organization’s overall security program (Dunham 2018). They provide guidance on how to implement, enable and enforce existing security controls; and on how to execute security relevant business processes in a consistent and concerted manner (Ibid.). At the same time, they are to be consi...
Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities1,2. This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity3-6. Here we use 2,009population-based studies, with measurements of height and w...
After Iosif Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union emerged from its isolation and began to show an interest in traditionally marginalized foreign societies. As the example of the Chilean-Soviet rapprochement under Eduardo Frei's administration (1964–1970) shows, Soviet leaders viewed state-to-state relations with "progressive" Latin American regi...
Few studies focus on how children’s environment affects their ability to cope with contemporary advertising. This study uses multilevel analysis techniques to explore how parents, classmates, and teachers’ characteristics influence primary school children’s dispositional advertising literacy, while acknowledging these children’s own individual feat...
