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Datafication and data fiction: Narrating data and narrating with data

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Paul Dourish *
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Edgar Gómez Cruz
DOI:10.1177/2053951718784083delete
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Data do not speak for themselves. Data must be narrated-put to work in particular contexts, sunk into narratives that give them shape and meaning, and mobilized as part of broader processes of interpretation and meaning-making. We examine these processes through the lens of ethnographic practice and, in particular, ethnography's attention to narrative processes. We draw on a particular case in which digital data must be animated and narrated by different groups in order to examine broader questions of how we might come to understand data ethnographically.
Keywords:
Ethnography
datafication
narrative
trajectory
temporality
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