Masullo, G., Gilley, B., (2022). Non-Binary Family Configurations: Intersections of Queerness and Homonormativity. Springer, Berlino.

Tipo di contributo: Curatela

This volume provides a close look at the ways in which LGBTQ2 people form familial bonds. It brings together stories from non-binary families across continents and cultures and recenters care as a foundational value for creating familial ties. This volume therefore addresses a gap in the literature concerning non-binary family configurations by going beyond the legal battle for non-binary partnership rights. In recent discussions on marriage equality, the notion of familial bonds, which was important in early discussions on non-binary family research, has been decentered in favor of legal and homonormative understandings of individual rights. This volume centers familial bonds as the first step toward reimagining how to do research on the family and adds to research on family studies as well as gender studies.

Students and researchers of sociology, anthropology, social work, gender studies, family research, well-being research, and anyone else working on or with non-binary families will find this book highly topical and interesting.

Punziano, G., Delli Paoli, A. (2021). Handbook of Research on Advanced Research Methodologies for a Digital Society. IGI Global, Pennsylvania.

Tipo di contributo: Curatela in due volumi

Description

Doing research is an ever-changing challenge for social scientists. This challenge is harder than ever today as current societies are changing quickly and in many, sometimes conflicting, directions. Social phenomena, personal interactions, and formal and informal relationships are becoming more borderless and disconnected from the anchors of the offline “reality.” These dynamics are heavily marking our time and are suggesting evolutionary challenges in the ways we know, interpret, and analyze the world. Internet and computer-mediated communication (CMC) is being incorporated into every aspect of daily life, and social life has been deeply penetrated by the internet. This is due to recent technological developments that increase the scope and range of online social spaces and the forms and time of participation such as Web 2.0, which widened the opportunities for user-generated content, the emergence of an “internet of things,” and of ubiquitous mobile devices that make it possible to always be connected. This implies an adjustment to epistemological and methodological stances for conducting social research and an adaption of traditional social research methods to the specificities of online interactions in the digital society.

Masullo, G., Addeo, F., Delli Paoli, A. (2020). Etnografia e Netnografia: riflessioni teoriche, sfide metodologiche, ed esperienza di ricerca. Loffredo Editore, Napoli.

Tipo di contributo: Curatela

Il libro rappresenta il risultato di un lungo confronto svolto tra colleghi di diversi contesti accademici e appartenenza disciplinare, che impiegano l’approccio etnografico e netnografico come ausili fondamentali per le loro ricerche empiriche. Lo sguardo ecumenico che caratterizza il testo è ispirato dal desiderio di creare ponti tra le discipline e di superare quelle barriere che impediscono ai diversi saperi delle scienze sociali e umane di dialogare fra loro. I saggi presenti toccano alcuni dei temi più attuali e in discussione nel più ampio dibattito della ricerca etnografica, oggi complicata dall’attuale diffusione dei nuovi mezzi della comunicazione della soci età web 2.0. Ognuno dei saggi pertanto apre a nuove questioni, dilemmi, che ogni ricercatore tenta di sciogliere in base alla propria esperienza acquisita e alle specificità del terreno di ricerca. Quello che emerge è che per sfruttare e comprendere al meglio le potenzialità di questo tipo di approccio di ricerca occorre farne esperienza pratica; solo così si potranno superare anche i dilemmi di natura etica e metodologica che solo in parte indicazioni di carattere manualistico, come quelle presenti in questo volume, consentono di sciogliere.