Interface Methods Renegotiating relations between digital social research , STS and the sociology of innovation
Interface Methods Renegotiating relations between digital social research , STS and the sociology of innovation
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接口方法重新协商数字社会研究、STS和创新社会学之间的关系
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2015
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N. Marres
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本文介绍了数字社会研究中一种独特的方法开发方法，称为“接口方法”。我们首先讨论数字媒体、科学技术社会研究（STS）和社会学之间的各种方法融合。一些作者认为，一方面，社会学和STS的概念，另一方面，数字媒体的本体论之间存在显著的重叠。另一些人则强调了数字媒体内置的主要方法与STS和社会学的方法之间的显著差异。本文提倡第三种方法，即a)强调数字方法的动态性和相对不确定性，b)确认多种方法传统在数字设备和研究中交叉。我们认为，这两种情况使数字社会研究的方法论成为一种独特的方法——思维方法作为“界面方法”，本文以两种不同的方式将这种方法置于背景中。首先，我们展示了在线数据工具或“数字分析”的激增如何为社会学、STS和数字研究交叉领域的方法开发提供了批判性和创造性的独特机会。其次，我们讨论了一个数字研究项目，其中我们研究了一种特定的“界面方法”，即共现分析。在这项数字试点研究中，我们以一种批判性和创造性的方式实施了这种方法，以分析和可视化Twitter上气候变化领域的“问题动态”。我们根据我们的主要目标来评估这个项目，我们的主要目标是通过实验实施和各种方法传统的接口来测试方法修改的可能性。最后，我们讨论了“界面方法”发展的一个主要障碍：数字媒体以特定的定量动态为特征，这似乎与社会学和STS的方法论承诺背道而驰。为了解决这个问题，我们主张在数字社会研究中采用一种方法学方法，这种方法肯定了它对媒体中普遍存在的研究方法的不适应。
This paper introduces a distinctive approach to methods development in digital social research called “interface methods.” We begin by discussing various methodological confluences between digital media, social studies of science and technology (STS) and sociology. Some authors have posited significant overlap between, on the one hand, sociological and STS concepts, and on the other hand, the ontologies of digital media. Others have emphasised the significant differences between prominent methods built into digital media and those of STS and sociology. This paper advocates a third approach, one that a) highlights the dynamism and relative under-determinacy of digital methods, and b) affirms that multiple methodological traditions intersect in digital devices and research. We argue that these two circumstances enable a distinctive approach to methodology in digital social research – thinking methods as ‘interface methods’ and the paper contextualizes this approach in two different ways. First, we show how the proliferation of online data tools or ‘digital analytics’ opens up distinctive opportunities for critical and creative engagement with methods development at the intersection of sociology, STS and digital research. Second, we discuss a digital research project in which we investigated a specific ‘interface method’, namely co-occurrence analysis. In this digital pilot study we implemented this method in a critical and creative way to analyse and visualise ‘issue dynamics’ in the area of climate change on Twitter. We evaluate this project in the light of our principal objective, which was to test the possibilities for the modification of methods through experimental implementation and interfacing of various methodological traditions. To conclude, we discuss a major obstacle to the development of ‘interface methods’: digital media are marked by particular quantitative dynamics that seem adverse to the methodological commitments of sociology and STS. To address this, we argue in favour of a methodological approach in digital social research that affirms its mal-adjustment to the research methods that are prevalent in the medium.
DOI：
10.1007/s10606-012-9184-0
发表时间：
2013-08-01
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2.4
作者：
Jirotka, Marina;Lee, Charlotte P.;Olson, Gary M.
通讯作者：
Olson, Gary M.
DOI：
10.1177/0162243915574602
发表时间：
2015-09
期刊：
Science, technology & human values
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Marres N
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Marres N