Hungry Ethics: from doing research to becoming-sangtin

Atuk, Tankut

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2021.1916446

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“…It is also about “being knowledgeable and prepared; present and aware; adaptive and context sensitive; and honest or mindful” (Markham, 2006, p. 44), which emphasizes a “readiness” that draws from preparation and attitude in developing the research design. “Hungry ethics” (Atuk, 2021) reflects this readiness and suggests that researchers might work toward “unlearning to occupy the privileged position of a researcher and relearning to embrace the role of a vulnerable companion.” This position that researchers might inhabit, as an “intimate comrade,” Atuk (2021) recognizes the unavoidable limits to this position but asserts that where archives leave ethical gaps, researchers might work to reposition themselves to amend those gaps.…”

Section: Ethics As Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Critical care for the early web: ethical digital methods for archived youth data

Mackinnon

2022

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Purpose This paper aims to provide a brief overview of the ethical challenges facing researchers engaging with web archival materials and demonstrates a framework and method for conducting research with historical web data created by young people. Design/methodology/approach This paper’s methodology is informed by the conceptual framing of data materials in research on the “right to be forgotten” (Crossen-White, 2015; GDPR, 2018; Tsesis, 2014), data afterlives (Agostinho, 2019; Stevenson and Gehl, 2019; Sutherland, 2017), indigenous data sovereignty and governance (Wemigwans, 2018) and feminist ethics of care (Cifor et al., 2019; Cowan, 2020; Franzke et al., 2020; Luka and Millette, 2018). It demonstrates a new method called an archive promenade, which builds on the walkthrough and scroll-back methods (Light et al., 2018; Robards and Lincoln, 2017). Findings The archive promenades demonstrate how individual attachments to digital traces vary and are often unpredictable, which necessitates further steps to ensure that privacy and data sovereignty are maintained through research with web archives. Originality/value This paper demonstrates how the archive promenade methodological intervention can lead to better practices of care with sensitive web materials and brings together previous work on ethical fabrications (Markham, 2012), speculation (Luka and Millette, 2018) and thick context (Marzullo et al., 2018), to yield new insights for research on the experiences of growing up online.

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Section: Ethics As Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…i.e. stopping, hiding, keeping private Atuk (2021); Hogan (2015) What story is being told and who is telling it? Hartman (2019) Critical care for the early web et al, 2020).…”

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Critical care for the early web: ethical digital methods for archived youth data

Mackinnon

2022

JICES

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“…In this work, I developed an ethico-methodological intervention that pairs oral interview research with web archives of youth data, called archive promenade. In this approach, researchers take the position of a "vulnerable companion" (Atuk 2022) with the participant as they move through archived web material -digging, as scavengers, to retrieve what materials of theirs have been dumped. They are moving through the ruins of a digital space that participants once called home.…”

Section: Early Internet Memoriesmentioning

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WEB HISTORIES IN THE MAKING: WEB ARCHIVES & THE LOGICS OF PRACTICE

Paßmann,

Gerzen,

Schories

et al. 2023

SPIR

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Historically-situated accounts of the Web have a long history within the field of internet studies. Drawing on diverse methodologies and forms of data, web histories of platforms, cultures and communities of practice have illuminated the rich, but often transient and shifting nature of life online. Many web histories rely upon researchers capturing, collecting, and generating their own data through time, though some have also engaged with web archives as a means for studying the past online. However, web archive data have never fulfilled the requirements of positivist ideals such as ‘representativeness’ or objectivity, and the methodological consequences of this observation currently do not go far enough. This panel aims to shift and reframe current discussions of the ‘promise’ of web archives for web historiography, towards identifying what underlying logics or ideals drive and motivate various actors engaged in this work. We argue that not only do the logics underpinning the practices of collecting and archiving the Web deserve further attention, but also the practices of internet researchers who aim to use these materials for studying the Web. Each paper contribution in this panel builds on web archive criticism by situating archived web material as fundamentally tied to the logics of practice. These underpinnings affect not only the formation of web archives, but also the methodological approaches researchers take. We therefore suggest new ways for conceptualising the ‘doing’ of web histories, tying them to an assemblage of people, practice and data that shape how we can come to understand the Web.

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Hungry Ethics: from doing research to becoming-sangtin

Cited by 2 publications

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Critical care for the early web: ethical digital methods for archived youth data

Critical care for the early web: ethical digital methods for archived youth data

WEB HISTORIES IN THE MAKING: WEB ARCHIVES & THE LOGICS OF PRACTICE

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