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Doing Visual Ethnography

Mixed methods combine the counterfactual analysis from a RCT with factual analysis using quantitative and qualitative data to analyze the causal chain…
The factual analysis will address such issues as the quality of implementation, targeting, barriers to participation or adoption by intended beneficiaries.

What are mixed methods

In this article, we introduce and demonstrate the concept-metaphor of broken data. In doing so, we advance critical discussions of digital data by accounting for how data might be in processes of decay, making, repair, re-making and growth, which are inextricable from the ongoing forms of creativity that stem from everyday contingencies and improvisatory human activity. We build and demonstrate our argument through three examples drawn from mundane everyday activity: the incompleteness, inaccuracy and dispersed nature of personal self-tracking data; the data cleaning and repair processes of Big Data analysis and how data can turn into noise and vice versa when they are transduced into sound within practices of music production and sound art. This, we argue is a necessary step for considering the meaning and implications of data as it is increasingly mobilised in ways that impact society and our everyday worlds.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2053951717753228

Broken data : Conceptualising data in an emerging world

The capacity to understand and control one’s personal data is now a crucial part of living in contemporary society. In this sense, traditional concerns over supporting the development of ‘digital l...

‘Personal data literacies’: A critical literacies approach to enhancing understandings of personal digital data:

Artificial intelligence versus Maya Angelou: Experimental evidence that people cannot differentiate AI-generated from human-written poetry

Digital data is an increasing and continual presence across the sites, activities and relationships of everyday life. In this article we explore what data presence means for the ways that the everyday is organised, sensed, and anticipated. While digital data studies have demonstrated how data is deeply entangled with the way in which everyday life is lived out and valued, at the same time our relationships with data are riddled with anxieties or small niggles or tricky trade-offs and their use is often chaotic and muddled, part of the inevitable uncertainty about what will happen next. If the presence of data is part of the environments we inhabit, this raises the question of how and why data is valuable to us and what forms of hope and trust enable this value to further develop.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2053951718756685

Data anxieties: Finding trust in everyday digital mess:

In this article, we argue for an ethics of big data that is embedded in the emergent processes through which data are made, interpreted, and mobilized in mundane everyday contexts and examine how this could potentially be played out in research practice. We situate this as a response to a current crisis in accountability that has arisen in the context of the use of digital data to inform societal interventions, which we propose calls for a future-oriented anthropological ethics situated in the ongoingness of life. Such a standpoint offers a revised approach to temporality and attends to the ethics of intervening and engaging with the uncertainty of what is as yet unknown rather than simply with an ethics of the past. It offers us an opportunity to think differently about big data and ethics and to create an alternative ethics for big data and their analysis.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2056305118768298

Future Anthropology Ethics and Datafication: Temporality and Responsibility in Research

List of figures Acknowledgements List of contributors 1. Digital materiality Sarah Pink, Elisenda Ardevol and Debora Lanzeni Part One Expectations 2. Rematerializing the platform: Emulation and the digital-material Paul Dourish 3. Smart global futures: Designing affordable materialities for a better life Debora Lanzeni 4. Envisioning the smart home: Reimagining a smart energy future Yolande Strengers Part Two Co-interventions 5. Refiguring digital interventions for energy demand reduction: Designing for life in the digital-material home Sarah Pink, Kerstin Leder Mackley, Val Mitchell, Garrath T. Wilson and Tracy Bhamra 6. Speculative design and digital materialities: Idiocy, threat and com-promise Mike Michael 7. Ethnography and the quest to (co)design a mixed reality interactive slide Jaume Ferrer, Elisenda Ardevol and Narcis Pares 8. Designing for the active human body in a digital-material world Florian 'Floyd' Mueller Part Three Insider Design 9. Mobile intimacies: Everyday design and the aesthetics of mobile phones Heather Horst 10. Designing for the performance of memory David Carlin 11. Digital interventions in declining regions Ian McShane, Chris K. Wilson and Denise Meredyth Notes Bibliography Index

Digital materialities : design and anthropology

Design Ethnography

This paper discusses digital technologies from an anthropological perspective, concentrating on ways in which cultural diversity, social inequality and the possibilities of change and social transformation have been discussed. We examine the ways in which the digital domain has been conceived, categories used to describe processes of change and continuity in everyday life, and the impact of digital technology on these. this approach leads us to question up how ethnographers have explored the relationships among local practices, global transits and digital technologies, and the material and visual aspects of the digital in cultural production and media communication. Finally, we discuss how to incorporate digital technologies in ethnographic practice and anthropological knowledge.

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Débora Lanzeni

Papers

Data anxieties: Finding trust in everyday digital mess:

Future Anthropology Ethics and Datafication: Temporality and Responsibility in Research

Digital materialities : design and anthropology

Design Ethnography

Visualidades y materialidades de lo digital: caminos desde la antropología