Infrastructures of Intimate Data: Mapping the Inbound and Outbound Data Flows of Dating Apps
Infrastructures of Intimate Data: Mapping the Inbound and Outbound Data Flows of Dating Apps
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亲密数据的基础设施：映射约会应用程序的入站和出站数据流
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2019
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Fieke Jansen
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Esther Weltevrede;Fieke Jansen
在本文中，我们探讨了应用程序为实证分析带来的方法论挑战，并开发了一种方法来研究应用程序如何在平台和网络之间运行和交换数据。补充之前对约会应用程序的研究，我们的方法包括密切关注应用程序数据的亲密性，这是基于对基础设施的关系理解。我们将研究角色作为方法论角度进行实验，以在五种应用程序-基础设施关系（应用程序-用户，应用程序-设备，应用程序-社交媒体，应用程序-网络和应用程序-开发人员之间）的交叉点收集数据，并启动或推进对数据关系具体具体化的实证调查。文章的最后一部分反映了这种方法在约会应用程序研究之外的概念和方法含义。
In this article we engage with methodological challenges that apps pose for empirical analysis and develop an approach to study how apps operate and exchange data between platforms and networks. Complementing previous research on dating apps, our approach involves close attention to the intimacy of app data informed by a relational understanding of infrastructure. We experiment with the research persona as a methodological perspective to collect data at the intersection of five app-infrastructure relations – between app-user, app-device, app-social media, app-network and app-developer –, and initiate or advance an empirical inquiry into the specific materialisations of the data relationships. The final part of the article reflects on the conceptual and methodological implications of this approach beyond the study of dating apps.