Are we researching society or technology? The ambiguous objects of digital sociology

Le programme Migrations & Numérique de la Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme aura le plaisir de recevoir Noortje Marres (Goldsmiths, University of London) le jeudi 6 novembre 2014.

Abstract

This presentation engages with a particular problematic that digital sociology faces today: online platforms offer significant opportunities for the study of social life, but research relying on platform data easily ends up analysing not social life, but the platforms themselves. My talk outlines and evaluates two methodological strategies for addressing this problem of digital bias: a critical approach that seeks to strip its empirical object of digital artefacts, and an affirmative approach that endorses the hybridity of digital social phenomena. Drawing on a pilot study of privacy online, I showcase the type of insights and findings this second approach can provide.

 


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Valérie Schafer (28 octobre 2014). Are we researching society or technology? The ambiguous objects of digital sociology. Web90 - Patrimoine, Mémoires et Histoire du Web dans les années 1990. Consulté le 3 octobre 2024 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/v9ni