A Letter to the Humanities:

Koh, Adeline

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“…Few scholars would contest that with the emergence of 'big data' and algorithmic computation, research practices have changed; it is no longer methods-as-usual. While sociologists argue data digitalisation demands a 're-configuration of expertise' (Savage, 2013, p. 8), anthropologists call for 'networked anthropology' and 'networked ethics' (Collins and Slover Durington, 2015), and researchers working in areas such as science, medicine, economics, media, communications and the digital humanities particularly display a celebratory 'forward-looking sentiment' (Svensson, 2012;Koh, 2015;Arora, 2016). Media researchers, for example, happily gather social media data as they provide unique 'archives of the everyday' (Beer and Burrows, 2013, p. 54).…”

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“…In the last three decades, feminist science critics have demonstrated how all scholarly inquiry is socio-culturally constructed, situated and partial. In particular, as 'counter cultures of science' (Harding, 1991, p. 10), they have exposed the ways in which dominant, positivist science standards are historically tied to imperialism and colonialism, the military-industrial complex, capitalism and cultural attributes of maleness (Haraway, 1991(Haraway, , 2011Wajcman, 2004;Koh, 2015). Most prominently for feminist data analysis, in the early 1990s Donna Haraway already recognised that technology-enhanced vision around surveillance, imaging, scanning and mapping contained a devouring totalitarian ideology of vision:…”

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Feminist Data Studies: Using Digital Methods for Ethical, Reflexive and Situated Socio-Cultural Research

Leurs¹

2017

Feminist Review

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What could a social-justice oriented, feminist data studies look like? The current datalogical turn foregrounds the digital datafication of everyday life, increasing algorithmic processing and data as an emergent regime of power/knowledge. Scholars celebrate the politics of big data knowledge production for its omnipotent objectivity or dismiss it outright as data fundamentalism that may lead to methodological genocide. In this feminist and postcolonial intervention into gender-, race-and geography-blind 'big data' ideologies, I call for ethical, anti-oppressive digital data-driven research in the social sciences and humanities. I argue that a reflexive data scholarship can emerge from the reintegration of feminist and postcolonial science studies and ethics of care ideals. Although it is not a panacea for all ails of data mining, I offer a road map for an alternative dataanalysis practice that is more power-sensitive and accountable. By incorporating a people-centric and contextaware perspective that acknowledges relationships of dependency, reflects on temptations, and scrutinises benefits and harm, an 'asymmetrically reciprocal' (Young, 1997) research encounter may be achieved. I bring this perspective to bear on experiences of a two-year research project with eighty-four young Londoners on digital identities and living in a highly diverse city. I align awareness of uneven relations of power and knowledge with the messy relation of dependency between human and non-human actors in data analysis. This framework productively recognises that digital data cannot be expected to speak for itself, that data do not emerge from a vacuum, and that isolated data patterns cannot be the end-goal of a situated and reflexive research endeavor. Data-driven research, in turn, shows the urgency for renewed feminist ethical reflection on how digital mediation impacts upon responsibility, intersectional power relations, human subjectivity and the autonomy of research participants over their own data. keywords data studies for social justice; feminist data studies; ethics of care; feminist and postcolonial internet studies; young people; anti-oppressive methods feminist review 115 2017

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Feminist Data Studies: Using Digital Methods for Ethical, Reflexive and Situated Socio-Cultural Research

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“…Não obstante, neste trabalho preferimos não diferenciar entre Digital Humanities e as suas manifestações em outras línguas; especificamente, para o caso do presente trabalho, em português. Assim, apesar de que não vemos uma completa coincidência epistemológica entre o inglês Digital Humanities e o português Humanidades Digitais, mas sim uma tradução digital da etiqueta, usaremos criticamente o término Digital Humanities (DH), com o objetivo de propor uma reflexão sobre as características do campo fora da academia anglófona, aquilo que aqui chamamos "o Sul", ou "os Suis", e não especificamente para uma comunidade ou língua.3 Para uma reflexão crítica, embora centrada no âmbito dos EUA, vid Koh (2015)Nyhan e Flinn (2016).…”

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