Østerlund, Carsten, et al. “Building an Apparatus: Refractive, Reflective and Diffractive Readings of Trace Data”. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, vol. 21, no. 1, 2020, p. Article 10, doi:10.17705/1jais.00590 .
Abstract
<p>We propose a set of methodological principles and strategies for the use of trace data, i.e., data capturing performances carried out on or via information systems, often at a fine level of detail. Trace data comes with a number of methodological and theoretical challenges associated with the inseparable nature of the social and material. Drawing on Haraway and Barad’s distinctions among refraction, reflection and diffraction, we compare three approaches to trace data analysis.
Year of Publication
2020
Journal
Journal of the Association for Information Systems
Volume
21
Issue
1
Number of Pages
Article 10
DOI
10.17705/1jais.00590