Data-bodies and data activism

Presencing women in digital heritage research

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5260740
AutoresTerrie Lynn Thompson (0000-0002-8166-3791, University of Stirling, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen7
Número2
Fecha de publicación2020-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBig Data & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2053-9517 • E-ISSN: 2053-9517
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/2053951720965613
OpenAlexW3097971201
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas28

As heritage-as-the-already-occurred folds into heritage-in-the-making practices, temporal and spatial fluidity is made more complex by digital mediation and particularly by Big Data. Such liveliness evokes ontological, epistemological and methodological challenges. Drawing on more-than-human theorizing, this article reframes the notion of data-bodies to advance data activist-oriented research in heritage. Focused primarily on women, it examines how their distributed agency and voice with respect to data practices and the (re)makings of (digital) heritage could be amplified. I describe three methodological directions, influenced by feminist work in critical data studies, which could be employed by researchers: attuning to and becoming with data, making data physical and changing narratives. From data-bodies to haunted data, performative data curation and mapping data-bodies, and attuning to data streams and re-voicing narratives, this article contributes to discussions of how to engage critically and creatively with the datafication of digital heritage practices, knowings and ontologies

Aesthetics · Art · Big data · Data science · Literature · Mediation · Narrative · Performative utterance · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Digital and Traditional Archives Management · Museums and Cultural Heritage