Undermining 'data': A critical examination of a core term in scientific inquiry
Undermining 'data': A critical examination of a core term in scientific inquiry
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破坏“数据”：对科学探究中核心术语的批判性检验
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10.5210/fm.v18i10.4868
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2013
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Annette N. Markham
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Annette N. Markham
“数据”一词作为一个强有力的框架，用于讨论知识是如何获得的，并赋予某些知识方式以特权。通过它的模糊性，这个词可以培养一种自我延续的感觉，即“数据”是无可争议的，可以质疑它的意义或真实性，但不能质疑它的存在。本文批判性地探讨了“数据”的概念，在更大的问题的研究方法和框架的科学探究。目前，在科学研究的讨论以及日常广告中，“数据”和“大数据”一词占据主导地位，这使我们的注意力只集中在研究过程的某些方面。作者建议有意偏离这个术语的中心，探索用于描述调查的材料，过程和目标的微妙框架。
The term ‘data’ functions as a powerful frame for discourse about how knowledge is derived and privileges certain ways of knowing over others. Through its ambiguity, the term can foster a self–perpetuating sensibility that ‘data’ is incontrovertible, something to question the meaning or the veracity of, but not the existence of. This article critically examines the concept of ‘data’ within larger questions of research method and frameworks for scientific inquiry. The current dominance of the term ‘data’ and ‘big data’ in discussions of scientific inquiry as well as everyday advertising focuses our attention on only certain aspects of the research process. The author suggests deliberately decentering the term, to explore nuanced frames for describing the materials, processes, and goals of inquiry.