Trace publics as a qualitative critical network tool
Exploring the dark matter in the #MeToo movement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12657012 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Naomi Barnes (0000-0002-4049-1866, Queensland University of Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1305-1319 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Media & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1461444820912532 |
| OpenAlex | W3045201020 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 27 |
The relationship between the daily practice of personal politics and digitally networked publics amplify a familiar shaping and reshaping of the social. This article expands on nascent critiques of nodocentrism as a contemporary representation of the social in new media research to begin to advance a digital methods multidisciplinary project. Trace publics as a qualitative critical network (QCN) approach considers how representations developed by big social data analysis are shaped by everyday practices. Using the #MeToo phenomenon as an analogous frame, I show how trace publics can be used as a theoretical and methodological device for deconstructing, co-constructing, and reconstructing representations in social media research. The goal of such a proposal is to encourage future critical network and data research to consider the ethical ramifications of nodocentric representations of the social and the methodological possibilities of trace publics
Content analysis · Epistemology · Frame (networking · Frame analysis · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Publics · Representation (politics · Social media · Social science · Sociology · Telecommunications · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · Law · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Social Media and Politics
Digital Methods for Web Research
Affective Publics
The Culture of Connectivity
Hashtag Publics
Thirdspace
Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research
Fortunes of Feminism
The logic of survival
It's Like She's Eager to be Verbally Abused”
Beyond the hashtag
The big data public and its problems
The limits of networks as models for organizing the social
Tweeting for social justice in #Ferguson
Spatialities of data
Cutting apart together
Five Questions for Digital Migration Studies
Critical Questions for Big Data
Critical Data Studies
Situated Knowledges
Speculative Before the Turn
Participant' Perceptions of Twitter Research Ethics
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |