Digital Research Methods and the Diaspora
Digital Research Methods and the Diaspora:
Assembling Transnational Networks With and Beyond Digital Data
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032373482 | 161 Pages | PDF (True) | 6 MB
Assembling Transnational Networks With and Beyond Digital Data
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032373482 | 161 Pages | PDF (True) | 6 MB
The computational turn in the social sciences and humanities has generated much excitement about the potential to refresh our approaches to the study of the techno-social. From natively digital to digitised data, researchers of digital diasporas increasingly find themselves working with a range of disparate digital objects. These digital objects can include anything from hyperlinks to timestamps, from platform behavioural metrics such as react, share, or retweet, to different media formats such as text, image, and pre-recorded or livestreamed videos. Taking these disparate objects into account, this book introduces digital methods as research strategies not only for dealing with the ephemeral and unstable nature of tracing the diaspora with digital data, but also for reconceptualizing digital diasporas as assemblages and networks of more-than-human actors. The book also introduces a range of theoretical perspectives and methodological techniques for studying digital diasporas as contingent and processual hybrid collectives of heterogeneous material, cultural, and practice-based assemblages.