Communication activities in the European Parliament: an ethnographic approach to actors' practices
(2017) Ethnographies of Legislatures Research Workshop — Location: University of Edinburgh (12.October.2017)
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- The paper emphasizes how policy work in the European Parliament (EP) is a multidimensional activity which involves a wide range of actors originating from different social worlds. By doing so, it highlights how social media technology brings together a variety of activities and connects various social actors. In such a context, the argument of the paper is twofold: (1) The practice of bricolage mirrors practices and activities carried out in the EP, both by the practitioners investigated in the research but also by the researcher herself. The paper thus addresses some methodological issues raised throughout the ethnographic research, focusing on the “dual view” of the researcher. (2) Communication and policy activities are entangled and must not be approached in isolation, just like the EP cannot be approached in isolation from the social world it is involved in and from the other social worlds that interact with it. Parliaments are indeed a universe of multiple and complex interactions.
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Roginsky, S. (2017). Communication activities in the European Parliament: an ethnographic approach to actors’ practices. Ethnographies of Legislatures Research Workshop, University of Edinburgh. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/49124