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What actions have been taken in the past and are anticipated in the future?

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How is the work of furthering that social world’s agenda organised?

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What technologies are used and implicated?

• Are there particular sites where the action is organised? What are they like?’ (Clarke, 2005, p. 115). The researcher also created ‘memo[s of] a description of the arena or arenas in which the social worlds of concern are involved or implicated—situating them appropriately: • What is the focus of this arena? • What social worlds are present and active? • What social worlds are present and implicated or not present and implicated? • Are there any worlds absent that you might have expected? • What are the hot issues/contested topics/current controversies in the arena’s discourses? • Are there any surprising silences in the discourse? • What else seems important about this arena?’ (Clarke, 2005, p. 115). Clarke (2005) asserts that social worlds/arena maps assist a researcher in three ways. Firstly a researcher in drawing and creating the social world/arena map(s) is forced to design how best to conceptualise and represent collective actors. ‘The process of producing the map is analytically important in itself’ (p. 116). Secondly social world/arena maps, as representations of the site of inquiry, ‘become the conceptual infrastructure of the [study] under-girding many of the analytic stories later told’ (p. 116). Lastly, the act of