Grøn Genstart

A quali-quantitative micro-history of a political idea in real-time

Bibliographic Data

ID5260587
AuthorsAnnika Sh Isfeldt, Annika Solveig Hedegaard Isfeldt (0000-0002-5169-7229, University of Copenhagen), Thyge Ryom Enggaard (0000-0001-7379-5893, University of Copenhagen), Anders Blok (0000-0002-3403-698X), M A Pedersen (0000-0002-2850-8661, University of Copenhagen, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume9
Issue1
Publication date2022-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBig Data & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2053-9517 • E-ISSN: 2053-9517
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/20539517211070300
OpenAlexW4214504304
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited35

In this study, we build on a recent social data scientific mapping of Danish environmentalist organizations and activists during the COVID-19 lockdown in order to sketch a distinct genre of digital social research that we dub a quali-quantitative micro-history of ideas in real-time. We define and exemplify this genre by tracing and tracking the single political idea and activist slogan of grøn genstart ('green restart') across Twitter and other public-political domains. Specifically, we achieve our micro-history through an iterative and mutual attuning between computational and netnographic registers and techniques, in ways that contribute to the nascent field of computational anthropology. By documenting the serial ways in and different steps through which our inquiry was continually fed and enhanced by crossing over from (n)ethnographic observation to computational exploration, and vice versa, we offer up our grøn genstart case account as exemplary of wider possibilities in this line of inquiry. In particular, we position the genre of micro-history of ideas in real-time within the increasingly wide and heterogeneous space of digital social research writ large, including its established concerns with 'big and broad' social data, the repurposing of computational 'interface' techniques for socio-cultural research, as well as diverse aspirations for deploying digital data within novel combinations of qualitative and quantitative methods

Computational sociology · Data science · Epistemology · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sketch · Slogan · Social science · Sociology · Computational and Text Analysis Methods · Computer Science · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Social Media and Politics

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