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Critical Affordance Analysis for Digital Methods: The Case of Gephi

dc.contributor.editorBurkhardt, Marcus
dc.contributor.editorShnayien, Mary
dc.contributor.editorGrashöfer, Katja
dc.creatorvan Geenen, Daniela
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-22T13:45:14Z
dc.date.available2020-09-22T13:45:14Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThe following chapter addresses the need for “tool criticism” approaches in research designs that build on “digital methods,” and thus medium-specific methods, using the example of network exploration and mapping software Gephi. In order to perform tool criticism as an ongoing, active and reflective, situated and systematic approach, I develop the lens of “critical affordance analysis.” Drawing from and expanding the notion of “research affordances” I explore and inquire into the “account(‑)ability” of digital methods tools, on the one hand understood as offering and generating documentation of these tools’ workings, and on the other hand, as supporting the comprehensibility of their workings. In conclusion, I advocate approaching the design of the affordances, or action possibilities, of such knowledge instruments in epistemological terms.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14855
dc.identifier.urihttps://explorations.meson.press/media/van_Geenen_Critical_Affordance_Analysis.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/15842
dc.languageeng
dc.publishermeson press
dc.publisher.placeLüneburg
dc.relation.isPartOfdoi:https://doi.org/10.14619/1716
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectdigitale Kulturde
dc.subjectMethodende
dc.subjectDigital Cultureen
dc.subjectDigital Methoden
dc.subjectGephien
dc.subjectDigital Toolen
dc.subject.ddcddc:004
dc.titleCritical Affordance Analysis for Digital Methods: The Case of Gephien
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dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2021-05-29T01:08:33
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://explorations.meson.press/media/van_Geenen_Critical_Affordance_Analysis.pdf
local.source.booktitleExplorations in Digital Cultures
local.source.epage21
local.source.spage1

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