Presented as a Pecha Kucha at Web Science 2013 (Paris), this presentation focuses on a post-modern interpretation of "data" leveraging social theories of Goffman and Foucault.
9. “It is crucial to begin asking questions about our analytic
assumptions, methodological frameworks, and
underlying biases embedded in this phenomenon.”
- danah boyd (2012, p. 2)
11. “change the instruments, and you will change the entire
social theory that goes with them.”
- George P. Landow, 2001
12. “[performance is] an arrangement which transforms an individual
into a stage performer, the latter, in turn, being an object that can be
looked at in the round and at length without offense, and looked to
for engaging behavior, by those in an ‘audience’ role’” - Goffman (1974)
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