Rubbing against Data Infrastructure(s): Methodological Explorations on Working with(in) the Impossibility of Exteriority

Autor/inn/en	Piattoeva, Nelli; Saari, Antti
Titel	Rubbing against Data Infrastructure(s): Methodological Explorations on Working with(in) the Impossibility of Exteriority
Quelle	In: Journal of Education Policy, 37 (2022) 2, S.165-185 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Piattoeva, Nelli) ORCID (Saari, Antti)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-0939
DOI	10.1080/02680939.2020.1753814
Schlagwörter	Data; Research Methodology; Organization; Criticism; Educational Policy; Theories + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Daten; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Organisation; Organisationsstruktur; Kritik; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Theory; Theorie
Abstract	The article focuses on infrastructures as heterogeneous assemblages. Our claim is that to examine something as elusive as data infrastructure calls for an epistemological and methodological approach consistent with the fluid ontology of the object of study. Moreover, we assert that there is no position of exteriority from which to critique data infrastructures. Our question is thus primarily methodological: How might we analyse the relational and heterogeneous nature of data infrastructures in a way that both problematizes and builds on the impossibility of exteriority? We examine two dispositions of data infrastructures: first comes their provisional, dispersed and entangled character, and second, the affective attachments imbued therein. Overall, this paper, first, returns to the ontological and theoretical perspectives on what data infrastructures are; second, makes a contribution to the methodological question of how to study them; and, third, develops a means of critique that do not locate the analyst outside the object of the critique, reminding us of the immanent relationality of data infrastructures and of the necessity to take these seriously in the methodological approach. The paper works with the existing literature on data infrastructures and research methods in education policy analysis, and with our own research data and first-hand experiences. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01