Lomborg, Stine; Dencik, Lina and Moe, Hallvard. 2020. Methods for datafication, datafication of methods: introduction to the special issue. European Journal of Communication, 35(3), pp. 203-212. ISSN 0267-3231 [Article]

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Digital media enable processes of datafication: users' online activities leave digital traces that are transformed into data points in databases, kept by service providers and other private and public organisations, and repurposed for commercial exploitation, business innovation, surveillance — and research. Increasingly, this also extends to sensors and recognition technologies that turn homes and cities, as well as our own bodies, into data points to be collected and analysed So-called 'traditional' media industries, too, including public service broadcasting, have been datafied, tracking and profiling audiences, algorithmically processing data for greater personalisation as a way to compete with new players and streaming services. Datafication both raises new research questions and brings about new avenues, and an array of tools, for empirical research. This special issue is dedicated to exploring these, linking them to broader historical trajectories of social science methodologies as well as to central concerns and perspectives in media and communication research. As such, this special issue grapples with approaches to empirical research that interlink questions of methods and tools with epistemology and practice. It discusses the datafication of methods, as well as methods for studying datafication. With this we hope to enable reflection of what research questions media and communication scholars should ask of datafication, and how new and existing methods enable us to answer them.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323120922045
Additional Information:	Funding: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Stine Lomborg received funding from the Independent Research Fund Denmark (grant no. 8018-00113B). Lina Dencik is funded by a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (grant no. 759903). Hallvard Moe received funding from The Research Council of Norway (grant no. 247617).
Keywords:	Datafication, methodology, methods, media and communication research.
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Dates:	Date Event 1 April 2020 Accepted 5 May 2020 Published Online June 2020 Published
Item ID:	37277
Date Deposited:	16 Jul 2024 15:41
Last Modified:	17 Jul 2024 10:56
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/37277

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