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Professor Mariann Hardey's Outputs (49)

Tracking the Trackers: Self-Tracking in Households as Social Practice (2022)
Journal Article
Hardey, M. (2022). Tracking the Trackers: Self-Tracking in Households as Social Practice. Digital Health, 8, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076221093131

The purpose of this article is to examine the effect of different types of self-tracking users (trackers) on the health behaviours of others living in the same household. The study takes an international perspective, examining tracking practises from... Read More about Tracking the Trackers: Self-Tracking in Households as Social Practice.

Digital Inclusion in Nothern England: Training Women from Underrepresented Communities in Tech: A Data Analytics Case Study (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aduragba, O. T., Yu, J., Cristea, A. I., Hardey, M., & Black, S. (2020, December). Digital Inclusion in Nothern England: Training Women from Underrepresented Communities in Tech: A Data Analytics Case Study. Presented at 2020 15th International Conference on Computer Science & Education (ICCSE)

The TechUPWomen programme takes 100 women from the Midlands and North of England, particularly from underrepresented communities, with degrees or experience in any subject area, retrains them in technology and upon graduation guarantees an interview... Read More about Digital Inclusion in Nothern England: Training Women from Underrepresented Communities in Tech: A Data Analytics Case Study.

Social innovation and the university: the impact of intervention for the micro creative economy in North East England (2020)
Journal Article
Cockshut, L., Brown, A., & Hardey, M. (2020). Social innovation and the university: the impact of intervention for the micro creative economy in North East England. Social Enterprise Journal, 16(2), 203-220. https://doi.org/10.1108/sej-03-2019-0017

Purpose: This paper aims to explore the university as a nexus of socially innovative support and engagement with micro- and small-sized (mSME) creative businesses in rural and semi-rural regions. This paper argues that universities can play a sociall... Read More about Social innovation and the university: the impact of intervention for the micro creative economy in North East England.

Gender and technology culture: Points of contact in tech cities (2019)
Journal Article
Hardey, M. (2020). Gender and technology culture: Points of contact in tech cities. Sociological Research Online, 25(1), 101-118. https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780419851137

This article considers several features of tech cities and masculine technology culture, and their impact on the conditions of work and interactions of professionals working within them. It uses interdisciplinary perspectives of gender, technology cu... Read More about Gender and technology culture: Points of contact in tech cities.

Securing the future of research computing in the biosciences (2019)
Journal Article
Leng, J., Shoura, M., McLeish, T., Real, A., Hardey, M., McCafferty, J., Ranson, N., & Harris, S. (2019). Securing the future of research computing in the biosciences. PLoS Computational Biology, 15(5), Article e1006958. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006958

Improvements in technology often drive scientific discovery. Therefore, research requires sustained investment in the latest equipment and training for the researchers who are going to use it. Prioritising and administering infrastructure investment... Read More about Securing the future of research computing in the biosciences.

Women’s Leadership and Gendered Experiences in Tech Cities (2019)
Journal Article
Hardey, M. (2019). Women’s Leadership and Gendered Experiences in Tech Cities. Gender in Management: An International Journal, 34(3), 188-199. https://doi.org/10.1108/gm-05-2018-0048

The purpose of this paper is to examine the findings from longitudinal study conducted with women leaders in tech cities to understand the cultural and discursive burden affecting their professional experiences and the dominant cultural boundaries th... Read More about Women’s Leadership and Gendered Experiences in Tech Cities.

On the Body of the Consumer: Performance-Seeking with Wearables and Health and Fitness Apps (2019)
Journal Article
Hardey, M. (2019). On the Body of the Consumer: Performance-Seeking with Wearables and Health and Fitness Apps. Sociology of Health & Illness, 41(6), 991-1004. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12879

Contributing to critical digital health research and the sociology of health consumption, this study investigates the phenomenon of self‐tracking and interpretation of consumer data via wearable technology and mobile fitness software applications (ap... Read More about On the Body of the Consumer: Performance-Seeking with Wearables and Health and Fitness Apps.

‘It’s all about the packaging’: investigation of the motivations, intentions, and marketing implications of sharing photographs of secondary packaging on Instagram (2018)
Journal Article
Ilich, K., & Hardey, M. (2020). ‘It’s all about the packaging’: investigation of the motivations, intentions, and marketing implications of sharing photographs of secondary packaging on Instagram. Information, Communication and Society, 23(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2018.1478983

The phenomenon of ‘unboxing’ purchases has confidently and prolifically emerged into popular culture, with consumer-generated images of the branded and stylised shopping bags, boxes, and parcels from new acquisitions now ubiquitous in the social medi... Read More about ‘It’s all about the packaging’: investigation of the motivations, intentions, and marketing implications of sharing photographs of secondary packaging on Instagram.

Social Network Analysis in an Age of Digital Information (2018)
Book Chapter
Hardey, M. (2018). Social Network Analysis in an Age of Digital Information. In R. Alhajj, & J. Rokne (Eds.), Encyclopedia of social network analysis and mining (2671-2677). (2nd ed.). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_403

The term “social network analysis” (SNA) provides an increasingly overarching research context for scholars, as well as policy makers, industry, commercial organizations, and the public sector. It refers not only to an integrated set of theoretical c... Read More about Social Network Analysis in an Age of Digital Information.

Disconnected: Non-users of Information Communication Technologies (2018)
Journal Article
Hardey, M., & Atkinson, R. (2018). Disconnected: Non-users of Information Communication Technologies. Sociological Research Online, 23(3), 553-571. https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780418764736

Growing concern about the impact of constant, mediated connection has often focused on the ways in which technologies contribute to a ubiquitous sense of presence and interaction, and the kind of invasion that this may represent to a sense of self an... Read More about Disconnected: Non-users of Information Communication Technologies.

Social Cartography and ‘Knowing Capitalism’: Critical Reflections on Social Research and the Geo-­Spatial Web (2016)
Book Chapter
Smith, H., Hardey, M., Hardey, M., & Burrows, R. (2016). Social Cartography and ‘Knowing Capitalism’: Critical Reflections on Social Research and the Geo-­Spatial Web. In N. G. Fielding, R. M. Lee, & G. Blank (Eds.), The Sage handbook of online research methods (596-610). (2nd ed.). SAGE Publications

This chapter explores how, what Thrift (2005) has termed knowing capitalism, is increasingly invested in developing new techniques, methodological frameworks, and cultural discourses that exploit the potential of social cartography to realize new for... Read More about Social Cartography and ‘Knowing Capitalism’: Critical Reflections on Social Research and the Geo-­Spatial Web.

The UK’s Instagram Changing Economy & Cultural Landscape: The Sharp Rise In Professional Instagram users As Share Of Images; Affiliation And Other Revenues Continue To Grow (2015)
Report
Hardey, M. (2015). The UK’s Instagram Changing Economy & Cultural Landscape: The Sharp Rise In Professional Instagram users As Share Of Images; Affiliation And Other Revenues Continue To Grow. [No known commissioning body]

This report is the first of its kind to reveal the distinct patterns in Instagram use in the UK among the Instagram users. It presents a unique picture of social media image use by ranked status and Influence Factor (those with at least 10,000 follow... Read More about The UK’s Instagram Changing Economy & Cultural Landscape: The Sharp Rise In Professional Instagram users As Share Of Images; Affiliation And Other Revenues Continue To Grow.

Marketing Narratives: Researching Digital Data, Design and the In/Visible Consumer. (2014)
Book Chapter
Hardey, M. (2014). Marketing Narratives: Researching Digital Data, Design and the In/Visible Consumer. In M. Hand, & S. Hillyard (Eds.), Big Data?: Qualitative Approaches to Digital Research (115-135). (13). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/s1042-319220140000013008

Purpose - This chapter critically evaluates the literature on digital consumer data and the ways in which it can be used in digital social research. The chapter illuminates how researchers have to conceptualise and negotiate digital data, focusing up... Read More about Marketing Narratives: Researching Digital Data, Design and the In/Visible Consumer..

Special Issue Editorial: Re-asserting the social media contribution to the theory and practice of market research. (2013)
Journal Article
Hardey, M. (2013). Special Issue Editorial: Re-asserting the social media contribution to the theory and practice of market research. International Journal of Market Research, 55(6), 751-754

In this special issue of IJMR, Mariann Hardey provides a guest editorial that looks at how social media is contributing to the theory and practice of market research. Through her introduction to the papers, Hardey states that what is now needed is a... Read More about Special Issue Editorial: Re-asserting the social media contribution to the theory and practice of market research..