News and Research articles on Mixed-methods

Avoiding the kitchen sink: A guide to mixed methods approaches within digital rights governance

Gabrielle Lim, University of Toronto
Noura Aljizawi, University of Toronto
Shaila Baran, University of Toronto
Nicola Lawford, MIT
PUBLISHED ON: 18 Nov 2025 DOI: 10.14763/2025.4.2044

In this article, we performed a scoping review and argue that mixed or multi-method designs can better support collaboration when thoughtfully applied. However, indiscriminately combining methods without clear justification—the so-called ‘kitchen sink’ approach—risks overcomplicating research agendas and diluting their insights.

Developing the Citizen Summit Method: Understanding citizens’ views on digital surveillance technologies

Sally Dibb, Manchester Metropolitan University
Kirstie Ball, University of St Andrews Business School
Sara Degli Esposti, Institute of Philosophy of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC)
PUBLISHED ON: 18 Nov 2025 DOI: 10.14763/2025.4.2045

This paper discusses how to turn citizen summits into a robust, replicable, and participatory mixed methods approach for studying public views on digital surveillance technologies and other areas of internet policy.

A guideline for understanding and measuring algorithmic governance in everyday life

Michael Latzer, University of Zurich
Noemi Festic, University of Zurich
PUBLISHED ON: 30 Jun 2019 DOI: 10.14763/2019.2.1415

Public policy proposals regarding algorithms are often based on purely theoretically derived risk assessments. We propose a user-centred mixed-methods approach for more evidence-based policymaking.