scholarly journals (Re)framing Big Data: Activating Situated Knowledges and a Feminist Ethics of Care in Social Media Research

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 205630511876829 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Elizabeth Luka ◽  
Mélanie Millette
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Feminist Ethics ◽  
Feminist Methods ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Social Media Research ◽  
Political Commitments

In this article, we seek to problematize assumptions and trends in “big data” digital methods and research through an intersectional feminist lens. This is articulated through a commitment to understand how a feminist ethics of care and Donna Haraway’s ideas about “situated knowledge” could work methodologically for social media research. Taking up current debates within feminist materialism and digital data, including big, small, thick, and “lively” data, the argument addresses how a set of coherent feminist methods and a corollary epistemology is being rethought in the field today. We consider how the “queering” of Hannah Arendt’s concept of “action” could contribute to a critically optimistic and inclusive reflection on the role of ethical political commitments to the subjects/objects of study imbricated in big data. Finally, we use our recent research to pose a number of practical questions about practices of care in social media research, pointing toward future research directions.

scholarly journals Navigating Big Data dilemmas: Feminist holistic reflexivity in social media research

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 205395171880773 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Cooky ◽  
Jasmine R Linabary ◽  
Danielle J Corple
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Institutional Review Boards ◽  
Social Media Data ◽  
Institutional Review ◽  
Slow Adaptation ◽  
Private Research ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Social Media Research ◽  
Media Data

Social media offers an attractive site for Big Data research. Access to big social media data, however, is controlled by companies that privilege corporate, governmental, and private research firms. Additionally, Institutional Review Boards’ regulative practices and slow adaptation to emerging ethical dilemmas in online contexts creates challenges for Big Data researchers. We examine these challenges in the context of a feminist qualitative Big Data analysis of the hashtag event #WhyIStayed. We argue power, context, and subjugated knowledges must each be central considerations in conducting Big Data social media research. In doing so, this paper offers a feminist practice of holistic reflexivity in order to help social media researchers navigate and negotiate this terrain.

scholarly journals From digital positivism and administrative big data analytics towards critical digital and social media research!

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Big Data Analytics ◽  
Critical Realist ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Social Media Research ◽  
Critical Social

This essay argues for a paradigm shift in the study of the Internet and digital/social media. Big data analytics is the dominant paradigm. It receives large amounts of funding, is administrative and a form of digital positivism. Critical social media research is an alternative approach that combines critical social media theory, critical digital methods and critical-realist social media research ethics. Strengthening the second approach is a material question of power in academia.

Social Media Scholarship in Sport Management Research: A Critical Review

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 601-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gashaw Abeza ◽  
Norm O’Reilly ◽  
Benoit Séguin ◽  
Ornella Nzindukiyimana
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Sport Management ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Social Media Research

This work critically assesses the history and current state of social media scholarship in sport management research. Methodologically, the study is based on a comprehensive census review of the current body of literature in the area of social media. The review identifies 123 social media articles in sport management research that were mined from a cross-disciplinary examination of 29 scholarly journals from January 2008 (earliest found) to June 2014. The work identifies the topic areas, the platforms, the theories, and the research methods that have received the (most/least) attention of the social media research community, and provides suggestions for future research.

scholarly journals ‘I feel the irritation and frustration all over the body’ Affective ambiguities in networked parenting culture

2021 ◽  
pp. 136787792110035
Author(s):  
Mari Lehto ◽  
Susanna Paasonen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Research Data ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Social Media Research ◽  
Study Participants

This article investigates the affective power of social media by analysing everyday encounters with parenting content among mothers. Drawing on data composed of diaries of social media use and follow-up interviews with six women, we ask how our study participants make sense of their experiences of parenting content and the affective intensities connected to it. Despite the negativity involved in reading and participating in parenting discussions, the participants find themselves wanting to maintain the very connections that irritate them, or even evoke a sense of failure, as these also yield pleasure, joy and recognition. We suggest that the ambiguities addressed in our research data speak of something broader than the specific experiences of the women in question. We argue that they point to the necessity of focusing on, and working through affective ambiguity in social media research in order to gain fuller understanding the complex appeal of platforms and exchanges.

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