THISARTICLE. PRESENTS SELECTED LITERATERE that exemplifies (in theory and in practice) four methodological frameworks that have found wide application in qualitative studies: (1) symbolic interactionism, (2) phenomenological description, ( 3 ) constructivist hermeneutics, and (4) critical studies. Sources have been chosen to orient the reader within existing and emerging traditions from which s...

Games differ from most other forms of media by being procedural and interactive. These qualities change how games create and transmit meaning to their players. The concept of “real-time hermeneutics” (Aarseth 2003) is analysed in order to understand how temporality affects the understanding of games. Temporal frames (Zagal and Mateas 2010) are introduced as an alternative way of understanding t...

The concepts of social enterprise and entrepreneurship have been ever more present in public discourse during the past 20–30 years, along with radically different views kind level socioeconomic or political change that these specific economic ventures (should) aim for. Although is often dominated by neoliberal perspectives, which market-based activity as simply an efficient means solving all ki...

An emerging field of study among evangelica ls goes by the name modern linguistics. Its terminology, self-appraisal, approach to language analysis, and relationship to traditional exegesis furnish an introduction to a comparison with grammatical-historical hermeneutics. Indispensable to an analysis of modern linguistics is a grasping of its preunderstanding—its placing of the language of the Bi...

This paper considers how hermeneutics and other related theories may bring new insights into KO. They provide a most realistic representation of the complexity of knowledge and meaning according to which new forms of KOSs could be designed. Computational and conceptual aspects of these issues are discussed taking into account a number of case studies. Introduction The development of knowledge o...