ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the design of the research project. This research explores, to use Conradson and Latham's term, middling' forms of mobile life. This research combines qualitative and quantitative methods to measure and visualize networks and networking practices on the one hand, and to examine people's multilayered accounts of why and how they network and what their networking means to them, on the other. The chapter suggests in future research that network technologies and documents should play a more integrated role within such interviews. Theuthor begins with describing the sample in terms of sex, occupation, education, income, age and marital status. Then the recruitment and the places of interviews are discussed. There are nine interviewees working in the fitness industry in Manchester three of these are women. The interview guide elicits respondents' communication practices, travel and face-to-face visits for work, friendship and family life. The interview guide highlights the relational webs of individual biographies.
