Popular Culture, Digital Archives and the New Social Life of Data

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Popular Culture, Digital Archives and the New
Social Life of Data

• Roger Burrows

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Accounts - Actions

• Accounts of Actions
• Interviews
• Surveys
• Traces of Actions
• Transactional Data
• Web 2.0

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Breaking Conceptual Binaries?

• Production/Consumption Prosumption?
• Play/Labour Playbour?
• Vernacular Social Science/Social Science?
• Text/Visualisations?

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Types of Digital Popular Culture Archives

• Transactional
• Everyday
• Viewpoint/Opinion
• Crowdsourcing

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Facebook
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Taste f (gender, age.)
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Hit me up
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Logging Complaints
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We feel.
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Evelyn Ruppert

• The Transparency Agenda

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Concluding Remark

• If the discipline is going to take seriously the
  implications of digitalisation processes as both
  an object of inquiry and as a challenge to its
  established methodological practices, then the
  innovations in sociological description that this
  will inevitably necessitate will mean that we
  will have to take visualisation methodologies far
  more seriously than we have done hitherto