QUANTMEDCOMMGEO

New approaches in media and communication geography: Quantitative methods for analyzing geographical mobility

Coordinatore	EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZURICH    more  Organization address address: Raemistrasse 101 city: ZUERICH postcode: 8092 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Claudia Marianne Cognome: Jenny Email: send email Telefono: +41 44 632 55 56 Fax: +41 44 632 10 54
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Switzerland [CH]
Totale costo	207˙928 €
EC contributo	207˙928 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF
Funding Scheme	MC-IEF
Anno di inizio	2015
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2015-08-01   -   2017-07-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZURICH  Organization address address: Raemistrasse 101 city: ZUERICH postcode: 8092 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Claudia Marianne Cognome: Jenny Email: send email Telefono: +41 44 632 55 56 Fax: +41 44 632 10 54	CH (ZUERICH)	coordinator	207˙928.80

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'This study uses as a starting point the current call for a fundamental restructuring of research paradigms in geography and media & communication (Adams 2010, Adams and Jansson 2012). I aim to contribute to this restructuring mainly methodologically – to find the link between the disciplines through the analysis of geographical mobility and using quantitative methods. I originate from the current studies in the field of mobility (Giddens 1990, Castells 2001, Urry 2012) and from the critics (Castles 2010) to mobility studies as being unable to embrace the complex nature of mobility. The social transformation approach has been offered theoretically as a solution (Castles 2012), but there are still no methodologies for empirical analysis of mobility through the prism of social changes. The methodology in the social sciences has also been often criticised (Taagepera 2008), often being too descriptive and not enabling ‘theoretical generalisations and finding the “social laws”. The present project mainly uses the interpretative quantitative approach as a tool, the quantitative approach being rather innovative in the media and communication studies, and the interpretative approach (see, e.g. Glaser 2008) being rather innovative in the field of geography. This project aims to implement the quantitative methods for analysing mobility, within the following three subfields: (1) geographical mobility and ICT (analysis of individual mobility, based on national census (2011) and mobile positioning data (2012), and using interpretative structural methods); (2) communication geography (analysis of mobility practices and wishes, based on survey data collected in 2002-2014 in Estonia and using modelling methods for enabling micro- and macro-level analysis); (3) media geography (analysis of geographical character of spatial mobility and media usage habits using spatial analysis methods and based on European Social Survey data collected in 2014).'