A Better Understanding of Social Media with Situated Data Analysis
Channel: Jill Walker Rettberg
Date: 2020-06-19

Our personal data is used in many different contexts, and in each context it is used for different purposes. Situated data analysis provides a method for analysing data in these different contexts, building upon Donna Haraway's concept of situated knowledges and recent research on algorithmic bias. 

READ THE FULL PAPER: Rettberg, Jill Walker. 2020. “Situated Data Analysis: A New Method for Analysing Encoded Power Relationships in Social Media Platforms and Apps.” Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0495-3.

Situated data analysis gives scholars and students tools to analyze social media platforms and apps with the knowledge that data are always constructed and situated.