The Citizen Lab’s Gabrielle Lim, Noura Aljizawi, Shaila Baran, and Nicola Lawford recently published an article in Internet Policy Review on the methodology of digital rights governance research. Through a scoping review of 141 articles, the authors assess the relationship between interdisciplinary scholarship and single-, multi-, and mixed methods research. They find that interdisciplinary work is more likely than single-discipline work to employ more than one method. However, disciplinary combinations remain uneven, and greater reflexivity is needed regarding which disciplines and methods are combined, why certain approaches prevail, and how mixed or multi-method designs can better support collaboration.
Read Avoiding the kitchen sink: A guide to mixed methods approaches within digital rights governance in this special issue of Internet Policy Review.