Control in ICT-driven Interaction: Reflections on Symbolic Interactionism

Control in ICT-driven Interaction: Reflections on Symbolic Interactionism

Control, for a long time, has been an essential part of organisational sociology. The concept has largely been analysed from different epistemological standpoints. These standpoints are informed by the functional and institutional character of control. Using the postulations of symbolic interactionism as espoused by Herbert Blumer via a qualitative case study, this paper considers the view that...

Media Ecology and Symbolic Interactionism

Susan B. Barnes Abstract This paper examines Mead’s role in media ecological studies and will explore his relationship to media ecology from an interpersonal communication perspective. Included in this discussion are Mead’s concepts of self, symbolic interactionism, and the relationship between symbolic interactionism and media ecology. Examples from Internet research are used to illustrate how...

The Vitalization of Symbolic Interactionism

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Challenging convention: symbolic interactionism and grounded theory.

Not very much is written in the literature about decisions made by researchers and the justifications on method as a result of a particular clinical problem, together with an appropriate and congruent theoretical perspective, particularly for Glaserian grounded theory. I contend the utilisation of symbolic interactionism as a theoretical perspective to inform and guide the evolving research pro...

Symbolic Interactionism: the Role of Interaction in the Israeli-palestinian Conflict