Modern welfare agencies are increasingly offering clients digital tools in their service delivery. Since young people are prolific users of digital technology, this trend should be to their advantage. However, the quantitative ...

Nærværsteknologi muliggjør virtuelle møter gjennom strømming av lyd og bilde i sanntid, og har raskt blitt en del av hverdagen. I artikkelen viser vi hvordan nærværsteknologi setter i spill motsetningsfylte idealer i den ...

In this article, we aim to contribute to current discussions about ethical conduct in qualitative research practice. We provide examples of how ethics is a recurring issue throughout a research process and not just an ...

New technology brings new methodological opportunities. While long limited to face-to-face interviewing, today’s interview researchers can choose from a plethora of options, including email, instant messaging, telephone, ...

In a lot of research on loneliness and technology, there is an underlying premise that actual, physical presence is more real than ’virtual’ presence. This premise is rarely explicit, yet it implies a hierarchy of reality, ...

Loneliness’ impact on health and wellbeing has emerged as a public health issue in several countries. Young people are increasingly understood as a ‘risk group’ and intervention target for loneliness-reduction. This research ...

This article presents an analysis of discourses in recent UK policy on loneliness reduction. We use Carol Bacchi’s ‘what is the problem represented to be’ approach (WPR) to explore how the problem of loneliness produces ...

In this article, we explore how a very simple telepresence robot avatar becomes a technology multiple when interacting with humans. Based on Mol’s notion of the body multiple, we explore how AV1 – a social telepresence ...