The temporal fabric of research methods: Posthuman social science and the digital data deluge

This paper responds to recent concerns regarding the future of the digital social sciences. The aim of the paper is to identify and elaborate five core characteristics of social science research method. The first three characteristics – the desire for origins, the need to exclude, and the establishm...

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Published inResearch in education (Manchester) Vol. 98; no. 1; pp. 27 - 43
Main Author de Freitas, Elizabeth
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.08.2017
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Data
Floods
History
Humanism
Innovation
Ontology
Postmodernism
Research Methodology
Social Science Research
Social Sciences
Time
Latour
Hansen
qualitative
quantitative
sociology
Serres
Method
technics
methodology
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Summary:This paper responds to recent concerns regarding the future of the digital social sciences. The aim of the paper is to identify and elaborate five core characteristics of social science research method. The first three characteristics – the desire for origins, the need to exclude, and the establishment of a regime of labour – typically reinstate social orders and hierarchies, and heavily control if not curtail knowledge production. The fourth characteristic opens onto new ontologies of the social, pointing to how research methods can emerge in transformative historical moments. The fifth characteristic pertains to the potential of new research methods to alter the temporal logic of the social itself, by circumventing the deliberative time of the human subject and plugging into a worldly sensibility.
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ISSN:0034-5237
2050-4608
DOI:10.1177/0034523717723386