Balancing the potential and problems of digital methods through action research: methodological reflections
Balancing the potential and problems of digital methods through action research: methodological reflections
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通过行动研究平衡数字方法的潜力和问题：方法论反思
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2015
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S. Moshonas
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Helen Kennedy;Giles Moss;Christopher Birchall;S. Moshonas
本文报道了一个行动研究项目，在英国的公共部门组织，尝试了一系列的数字方法（社交媒体数据挖掘，社交网络和问题网络映射和数据可视化），以探索他们的潜在有用性，这些组织的公众参与活动。我们认为，有必要对像我们这样的大规模定量数据的文化进行小规模的定性研究，以开辟空间，批判性地反思这些数据产生的方法。然而，在本文中，我们强调的困难，我们通过行动研究制定了承诺的潜力（这可能被视为行动研究的行动部分）和问题（这可能被视为行动研究的研究部分）的数字方法。Hammersley（2002）。行动研究：术语上的矛盾？埃克塞特：英国教育研究协会]，我们认为，行动和研究之间的平衡可能总是难以维持，在行动研究和使用数字方法。尽管如此，我们认为，对数字方法的批判性讨论需要超越学术空间-通过这一举措，我们建议，我们可能会开辟一个空间，反思如何将这些方法用于公共利益。
This paper reports on an action research project with public sector organizations in the UK which experimented with a range of digital methods (social media data mining, social network and issue network mapping and data visualization), in order to explore their potential usefulness for the public engagement activities of these organizations. We argue that there is a need for small-scale, qualitative studies of cultures of large-scale, quantitative data like ours, to open up spaces in which to reflect critically on the methods with which such data are produced. However, in this paper we highlight the difficulties we had enacting through action research a commitment to both the potential (which might be seen as the action part of action research) and the problems (which might be seen as the research part of action research) of digital methods. Following Hammersley [(2002). Action research: A contradiction in terms? Exeter: British Educational Research Association], we suggest that an equal balance between action and research may always be difficult to sustain, in both action research and the use of digital methods. Despite this, we argue that critical discussion of digital methods needs to extend beyond academic spaces – through this move, we suggest, we might open up a space in which to reflect on how these methods might be used for the public good.