i3 seminar “Analysis of online participation” will welcome
Noortje Marrès
for a session about
Situational analytics:
Why social research must become inventive in a digital age
It has been argued that digital data and data tools enable new ways of reconciling foundational oppositions in social research, including those between content and context, abstraction and experience, trend and situation. This argument tends to involve the claim that automat-able data analysis now makes possible the empirical specification of contexts in ways that were previously understood to require ethnographic presence “in the field.” This talk will discuss an on-going study of a digitally native phenomenon – user-led technology testing on Youtube – to argue that such claims to methodological innovation suffer from an important blind spot. As a consequence of digital transformations, social life is today at risk of losing its ‘aboutness’: the situational specificity on which both qualitative and quantitative research have previously relied to secure the coherence of their empirical object.
Noortje Marrès is Associate Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Science & Technology Studies at the University of Leiden.
i3 seminar “Analysis of online participation”
The “Analysis of Online Participation” (APeL) seminar aims to develop reflection on approaches to the use of data about the online usage and participation. The seminar is a place for researchers from various backgrounds to meet and exchange knowledge, practices and know-how. At each session, the seminar guests present and discuss the “making of” of one of their researches: construction of the survey, specificities of the data engineering implemented, tools for capturing / building corpora, analysis strategies and tools used, etc.
Information and registration
The seminar is open to all. To register for the seminar and receive the text to read for the session, please click here.
Date: 8 November, 2018, 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Venue: Mines ParisTech, 60 bd St Michel, 75006 Paris (room Saint-Jacques)
Contact: Alexandre Mallard or Valérie Beaudoin
Photo source: University of Warwick, UK