Multimodality

Collins, Samuel Gerald; Durington, Matthew Slover

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

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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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2017

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“…In order to make sense, the various kinds of data produced must be interpreted in relation to each other and to the overall research context and experience. With the establishment of new digital tools, media, and ways of disseminating and sharing ethnographic knowledge, this characteristic has come to be discussed as "multimodal anthropology" (e.g., Collins and Durington 2018) in recent years.…”

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Interrogating Datafication

2022

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is a lecturer in the media studies department at the University of Siegen. Together with Karin Knorr Cetina, he heads the project "Agentic Media: Formations of Semi-Autonomy" in the DFG Collaborative Research Centre 1187 "Media of Cooperation". He has a background in media studies, philosophy, and computer science and received his doctorate at Justus-Liebig-University Gießen with a thesis on the media theory of digital databases. His research interests include the history and theory of digital media, especially the logi(sti)cs of database technologies, big data, and algorithmic media as well as digital methods. Daniela van Geenen is a Ph.D. candidate at the DFG Collaborative Research Center 1187 "Media of Cooperation" at the University of Siegen, after receiving her MA from Utrecht University. Her research lies at the interface of media studies and science and technology studies (STS), with particular focus on (critical) data studies, software, device, and infrastructure studies. In her Ph.D. project she investigates the sociomaterial organization, (data) practices, and values in/of urban sensing, paying specific attention to cases of environmental sensing in relation to mobility monitoring and planning. She is also a lecturer in Data Journalism and Visualization at the

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“…Multimodality—research and pedagogical methods that traverse multiple forms of media and mediations and challenge the centering of the textual in academia—has been a vital part of these efforts to decolonize the field. In multimodal practices oriented toward sensory ways of knowing and intervening, anthropologists have found new pathways for collective learning, collaboration, public engagement, and reflexivity that attempt to challenge traditional boundaries and renegotiate the relationship between researcher and ethnographic subject (Collins, 2018; Dattatreyan and Marrero-Guillamón, 2019).…”

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Abstraction, witnessing, and repair; or, how multimodal research can destabilize the coloniality of the gaze

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2021

Multimodality & Society

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The recent renewal of attention to abstraction within Black literary and visual studies, it seems to us, has to do with an interest in the various ways abstraction rejects ascribed categories, eschews narrow assumptions about “relevance,” and embraces experimentation during a moment when it is arguably most needed. Abstraction moves us simultaneously outside of representative realism, and it embraces research practices that often require the kind of intimacies that have long been the bread and butter of anthropology. As multimodal ethnographers, we have long made our ethical commitments to interlocutors through embodied participation and collective knowledge production. In this essay, we attend to questions of abstraction, witnessing, and refusal within our own filmic and photographic practices addressing state violence in the Caribbean. We are interested in the spatio-temporality of both witnessing and refusal and in the relationships between form and audience. We are interested in how forms of abstraction capture the ephemeral, performative, affective, non-linear, and unpredictable ways something that feels like sovereignty circulates and is transmitted from one to another, without contributing to a process of overexposure or a desire for transparency.

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Multimodality

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

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

Interrogating Datafication

Abstraction, witnessing, and repair; or, how multimodal research can destabilize the coloniality of the gaze

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