| Kommentar |
Digitial practices are a blessing and a curse for qualitative social research. On the one hand, never before have we had access to this many recordings of cultural practices, in which people speak, write, perform, play or work. On the other hand, accessing this kind of intrinsically mediated and easily distorted and manipulable data comes with a series of risks and dilemmas. In this course, we will i) cover questions of social theory: what are digital practices and are they different from other social practices? We will also (ii) adress fundamental methodological issues that emerge for qualitative researchers of digital practices. Finally, (iii) we will discuss recent attempts to invent new qualitative methods in social research of digital practices. |
| Literatur |
Possible readings may include:
- Marres, N. (2015). Why map issues? On controversy analysis as a digital method. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 40(5), 655-686.
- Marres, N., & Gerlitz, C. (2016). Interface methods: Renegotiating relations between digital social research, STS and sociology. The Sociological Review, 64(1), 21-46.
- Marres, N. (2020). For a situational analytics: An interpretative methodology for the study of situations in computational settings. Big Data & Society, 7(2), 2053951720949571.
- Pink, S., Horst, H., Postill, J., Hjorth, L., Lewis, T., & Tacchi, J. (2015). Digital ethnography: Principles and practice. sage.
- Randall, D., Rouncefield, M., & Tolmie, P. (2021). Ethnography, CSCW and ethnomethodology. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 30(2), 189-214.
- Rettberg, J. W. (2020). Situated data analysis: a new method for analysing encoded power relationships in social media platforms and apps. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 7(1), 1-13.
- Ruppert, E., Law, J., & Savage, M. (2013). Reassembling social science methods: The challenge of digital devices. Theory, culture & society, 30(4), 22-46.
- Smith, R. J. (2014). Missed miracles and mystical connections: Qualitative research, digital social science and big data. In Big data? Qualitative approaches to digital research. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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