performativity of data

re-conceptualizing the web of datare-conceptualizing the web of data

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“It is crucial to begin asking questions about our analytic assumptions, methodological frameworks, and underlying biases embedded in this phenomenon.”

- danah boyd (2012, p. 2)

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“change the instruments, and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them.”

- George P. Landow, 2001

“[performance is] an arrangement which transforms an individual into a stage performer, the latter, in turn, being an object that can be looked at in the round and at length without offense, and looked to for engaging behavior, by those in an ‘audience’ role’” - Goffman (1974)

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