14 results on '"Myers, Michael David"'
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2. Consumer Information Systems Research Agenda
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Tuunanen, Tuure, primary and Myers, Michael David, additional
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- 2017
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3. Giving voice to the voiceless:the use of digital technologies by marginalized groups
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Ortiz, Jose Carlos Arriola, Young, Amber Grace, Myers, Michael David, Bedeley, Rudolph T., Carbaugh, Donal, Chughtai, Hameed, Davidson, Elizabeth, George, Jordana, Gogan, Janis L., Gordon, Steven, Grimshaw, Eean, Leidner, Dorothy E., Pulver, Margaret, Wigdor, Ariel, Ortiz, Jose Carlos Arriola, Young, Amber Grace, Myers, Michael David, Bedeley, Rudolph T., Carbaugh, Donal, Chughtai, Hameed, Davidson, Elizabeth, George, Jordana, Gogan, Janis L., Gordon, Steven, Grimshaw, Eean, Leidner, Dorothy E., Pulver, Margaret, and Wigdor, Ariel
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This paper reports on a workshop hosted at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in September, 2018. The workshop, called “Giving Voice to the Voiceless: The Use of Digital Technologies by Marginalized Groups”, focused on discussing how marginalized groups use digital technologies to raise their voices. At the workshop, a diverse group of scholars and doctoral students presented research projects and perspectives on the role that digital technologies have in activist projects that represent marginalized groups that have gained momentum in the last few years. The studies and viewpoints presented shed light on four areas in which IS research can expand our understanding about how marginalized groups use digital technologies to address societal challenges: 1) the rise of cyberactivism, 2) resource mobilization for cyberactivism, 3) cyberactivism by and with marginalized groups, and 4) research methods for examining how marginalized groups use digital technologies.
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- 2019
4. Fostering Sense of Community in Self-Governed Virtual Communities in Times of Disaster.
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Hasan, Mahmudul, Chua, Cecil Eng Huang, and Myers, Michael David
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VIRTUAL communities ,VICTIMS ,INFORMATION technology ,ACQUISITION of data ,DATA analysis - Abstract
Disasters create uncertainty. Many disaster incidents have been documented where virtual communities reduce victims' disaster-related uncertainty by providing hyperlocal information. Hyperlocal information is different than mere information found on the internet because it originates from locals. However, getting locals to participate to share hyperlocal information in virtual communities remains a challenge. One way of encouraging locals to share hyperlocal information is fostering a Sense of Community (SoC), i.e., the feeling of belonging and being attached to a community. While substantial research has established the beneficial effects of SoC in physical communities, little is known of how SoC might encourage locals to share hyperlocal information in virtual communities in disaster situations. This research-in-progress paper proposes to answer this question by adopting SoC as an interpretive lens in a qualitative case analysis of a Reddit disaster community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
5. Entering the field in qualitative field research: a rite of passage into a complex practice world
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Chughtai, Hameed and Myers, Michael David
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The concept of ‘the field’ is significant in ethnographic research as well as qualitative research methods more generally. However, how a field researcher enters the field is usually taken for granted after gaining access to the field. We suggest that entrance is a distinct phase of fieldwork that differs from negotiating access. Entrance is not a trivial event; rather, it is a rite of passage into a complex practice world and marks a critical field moment. Drawing on our ethnography and insights from hermeneutics and anthropology, we show that a practical understanding of the field represents a fusion of horizons where a fieldworker is thrown. The concept of thrownness highlights the fact that the fieldworkers' own historicity and prejudices affect their entrance into the field; hence, entrance into the field orientates an ethnographer in the field and influences the entire period of fieldwork that follows. Our theorizing is intended as a contribution towards advancing the discussion of qualitative research methods.
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- 2017
6. Entering the field in qualitative field research:a rite of passage into a complex practice world
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Chughtai, Hameed, Myers, Michael David, Chughtai, Hameed, and Myers, Michael David
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The concept of ‘the field’ is significant in ethnographic research as well as qualitative research methods more generally. However, how a field researcher enters the field is usually taken for granted after gaining access to the field. We suggest that entrance is a distinct phase of fieldwork that differs from negotiating access. Entrance is not a trivial event; rather, it is a rite of passage into a complex practice world and marks a critical field moment. Drawing on our ethnography and insights from hermeneutics and anthropology, we show that a practical understanding of the field represents a fusion of horizons where a fieldworker is thrown. The concept of thrownness highlights the fact that the fieldworkers' own historicity and prejudices affect their entrance into the field; hence, entrance into the field orientates an ethnographer in the field and influences the entire period of fieldwork that follows. Our theorizing is intended as a contribution towards advancing the discussion of qualitative research methods.
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- 2017
7. A temporal dynamics framework and methodology for computationally intensive social media research
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Kishore, Shohil, Sundaram, David, and Myers, Michael David
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The growing availability of expansive social media trace data (SMTD) offers researchers promising opportunities to create rich depictions of societal and social phenomena. Despite this potential, research analysing such data often struggles to construct novel theoretical insight. This paper argues that holistically incorporating temporality enhances data collection and data analysis, subsequently facilitating process theory construction from SMTD. Recommendations to integrate temporality are outlined in the proposed Temporal Dynamics Framework and Methodology (TDFM). We apply the TDFM to investigate the temporal dynamics of mental health discourse on Twitter (now X) across different phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, theoretically framed in the context of innate psychological needs satisfaction. The findings reveal dynamic shifts in social media use, indicating that different phases of the pandemic triggered changes in the needs motivating, and being motivated by, social media use. This illustrative case reflectively evaluates the TDFM's usefulness in contextualising SMTD collection, analytical strategies, and process theory construction by incorporating a dynamic perspective on time.
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- 2024
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8. Qualitative Research in Information Systems : A Reader Ed. 1
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Myers, Michael David, Myers, Michael David, Myers, Michael David, and Myers, Michael David
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Qualitative research has become a legitimate approach within the information systems community, but researchers have traditionally drawn upon material from the social sciences given the absence of a single source relevant to them. Qualitative Research in Information Systems: A Reader represents just such a volume and is both timely and relevant. Information systems and qualitative research articles are now widely used for teaching on many upper level courses in information systems, and there is demand for a definitive collection of these readings as a basic reader and teaching text. This book expertly brings together the seminal works in the field, along with editorial introductions to assist the reader in understanding the essential principles of qualitative research. The book is organised according to the following thematic sections: · Part I: Overview of Qualitative Research · Part II: Philosophical Perspectives · Part III: Qualitative Research Methods · Part IV: Modes of Analyzing and Interpreting Qualitative Data Qualitative Research in Information Systems: A Reader should become the benchmark reference point for students and researchers in information systems, management science and others involved in information technology needing to learn about qualitative research.
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- 2002
9. Ethnographic field research:Interpreting one's entrance into the field as thrownness
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Chughtai, Hameed, Myers, Michael David, Chughtai, Hameed, and Myers, Michael David
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The field is where an ethnographer does the fieldwork, yet a discussion of one's entrance into the field is essentially overlooked in the IS research literature. This paper suggests that entrance into the field can be seen as a rite of passage into a practice world. Using phenomenological hermeneutics, we direct the focus to everyday being-in-the-world to develop a practical understanding of the field as a fusion of horizons where an ethnographer is thrown. The concept of thrownness suggests including one's historicity and prejudices as one enters the field. We provide some empirical evidence from an ethnographic field study at a large scale IT services organization. This paper is intended as a contribution to the discussion about qualitative research methods in information systems.
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- 2014
10. Playing with it:Ethnographic research on the technological practices of young professionals
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Chughtai, Hameed, Myers, Michael David, Chughtai, Hameed, and Myers, Michael David
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Recently some Information Systems researchers have suggested that the younger generation engage with information technologies in a different way from the older generation. To gain a deeper understanding of this phenomenon, we have been conducting ethnographic research on the technological practices of young professionals within an organizational context. Our initial findings suggest that young people become engrossed in information technology in their everyday practices. We describe this engrossment in everyday phenomena as play, using the interpretive concept of 'play' as developed by Erving Goffman and expanded by Clifford Geertz. Our study aims to contribute towards theorizing of the everyday practices of young people's engagement with IT.
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- 2014
11. Cultivation ridges in theory and practice : cultural ecological insights from Ireland
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Myers, Michael David, 1963
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Contour farming--Ireland ,Agriculture--Environmental aspects--Ireland ,Sustainable agriculture ,Agriculture ,Landscape protection ,Contour farming ,Ireland ,Environmental ,Landscape protection--Ireland - Abstract
This study involves historical, ethnographic, and experimental investigations of agricultural ridged fields and associated farming practices in grassland environments. The literature review was global. Fieldwork was in Ireland, but implications pertain to similar features elsewhere. For theoretical purposes, the study considers rational decision-making pivotal to the temporal and spatial distribution of ridged-fields relative to level-field alternatives. The goal of the study, therefore, was to compare efficiencies in the economy of scarce resources, including labor, land, manure, tools, seed, and yields, and to compare subsistence risk from crop disease. This required analyzing the movements of body, tools, and soils in the field, calculating the time involved, and measuring effects on field forms, soil quality, micro-climates, and yields. Fieldwork in 1994 and 1995 included observations and interviews at traditional plow and spade competitions. Test plot experiments compared ridged and level field production from primary tillage through the harvest seasons. The analyses established significant labor- and yield-related variables, such as the linear measure of sod cutting, number of sods turned, and seed-furrow forms and spacing. They also provided local, case-study examples of labor inputs and agronomic results. The data suggest that prevailing ideas about ridging are in need of revision. They confirm that ridging can increase yields, reduce erosion, increase soil organic matter and fertility, and suppress bacterial and fungal pathogens, relative to level fields. The data also demonstrate that ridging can require less labor than level field tillage and is not necessarily a more complex technological invention. These observations may help explain the early, independent, and varied origins of ridge forms in Ireland and elsewhere. The variables of population density, markets, technology, farm size, frequency of cultivation, fallow practices, crops, fertility inputs, and bio-physical environments all affect the comparative costs and benefits, and the rational choice, between ridged and level fields. These variables modify the results of the fieldwork in logical ways for different contexts. Discussion of the field results and qualifiers in concert, sheds new light on the global distribution and timing of ridged field origins, persistence, obsolescence, absence, and future prospects
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- 1998
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12. Setting Our Research Agendas: Institutional Ecology, Informing Sciences, or Management Fashion Theory?
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Myers, Michael David, primary, Baskerville, Richard L., additional, Gill, Grandon, additional, and Ramiller, Neil, additional
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- 2011
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13. What Do We Like About the IS Field?
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King, John Leslie, primary, Myers, Michael David, additional, Rivard, Suzanne, additional, Saunders, Carol, additional, and Weber, Ron, additional
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- 2010
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14. Cultivation ridges in theory and practice : cultural ecological insights from Ireland
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Myers, Michael David, 1963-
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- Agriculture, Ireland, Landscape protection, Contour farming, Environmental, Sustainable agriculture
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This study involves historical, ethnographic, and experimental investigations of agricultural ridged fields and associated farming practices in grassland environments. The literature review was global. Fieldwork was in Ireland, but implications pertain to similar features elsewhere. For theoretical purposes, the study considers rational decision-making pivotal to the temporal and spatial distribution of ridged-fields relative to level-field alternatives. The goal of the study, therefore, was to compare efficiencies in the economy of scarce resources, including labor, land, manure, tools, seed, and yields, and to compare subsistence risk from crop disease. This required analyzing the movements of body, tools, and soils in the field, calculating the time involved, and measuring effects on field forms, soil quality, micro-climates, and yields. Fieldwork in 1994 and 1995 included observations and interviews at traditional plow and spade competitions. Test plot experiments compared ridged and level field production from primary tillage through the harvest seasons. The analyses established significant labor- and yield-related variables, such as the linear measure of sod cutting, number of sods turned, and seed-furrow forms and spacing. They also provided local, case-study examples of labor inputs and agronomic results. The data suggest that prevailing ideas about ridging are in need of revision. They confirm that ridging can increase yields, reduce erosion, increase soil organic matter and fertility, and suppress bacterial and fungal pathogens, relative to level fields. The data also demonstrate that ridging can require less labor than level field tillage and is not necessarily a more complex technological invention. These observations may help explain the early, independent, and varied origins of ridge forms in Ireland and elsewhere. The variables of population density, markets, technology, farm size, frequency of cultivation, fallow practices, crops, fertility inputs, and bio-physical environments all affect the comparative costs and benefits, and the rational choice, between ridged and level fields. These variables modify the results of the fieldwork in logical ways for different contexts. Discussion of the field results and qualifiers in concert, sheds new light on the global distribution and timing of ridged field origins, persistence, obsolescence, absence, and future prospects
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- 1998
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