Analysing digital multilocality between urban centres and rural peripheries: Combining and integrating digital and analogue research methods.

Bürgin, Reto; Mayer, Heike; Kashev, Alexander; Haug, Sigve (2022). Analysing digital multilocality between urban centres and rural peripheries: Combining and integrating digital and analogue research methods. Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 80(3), pp. 279-295. oekom 10.14512/rur.116

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The application of mixed methods in researching digitalisation and rural development has numerous benefits in terms of the integration of various data sources. In this paper, we present a novel, mixed methods approach that combines digital and analogue methods. We investigatemultilocal work arrangements of knowledge workers in Switzerland who mainly work in a central urban area but occasionally withdraw to peripheral mountain regions in order to conduct their work in a concentrated and undisturbed environment. To analyse such multilocal work arrangements, we use a mixed methods approach that incorporates six integratedmethods: geotracking, laptop and smartphone tracking, self-administered digital diaries, ethnographic walk-along observations and qualitative semi-structured interviews. Our study illustrates that mixed methods in digitalisation research provide in-depth insights, but that they also have limitations. Furthermore, we show how ethical standards can and should be used to create a basis of trust with the study participants and how this affects the
recruitment of the sample.

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