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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
The temporal fabric of research methods: Posthuman social science and the digital data deluge
Contributor:
de Freitas, Elizabeth
Published:
SAGE Publications, 2017
Published in:
Research in Education, 98 (2017) 1, Seite 27-43
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1177/0034523717723386
ISSN:
0034-5237;
2050-4608
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
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.