Index

Data Excess in Digital Media Research

ISBN: 978-1-80455-945-1, eISBN: 978-1-80455-944-4

Publication date: 8 November 2024

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(2024), "Index", Hendry, N.A. and Richardson, I. (Ed.) Data Excess in Digital Media Research, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 155-161. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80455-944-420241011

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INDEX

Academic publishing
, 110–111

Actual practice
, 90

Affective atmosphere
, 40–41

of offcuts
, 44–49

Affects
, 89

African Australian youth on social media
, 30–33

Algorithmic mediation on YouTube
, 71–73

Algorithmic societies of control, microblogging in
, 115–116

Algorithms
, 70–71, 116–117

Ambient touch
, 90

‘App culture’
, 128–129

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
, 61, 77, 127

Assemblages
, 6

Augmented reality (AR)
, 127–128

Barbie social media
, 45

Big data
, 5, 16–17, 124

data impacts
, 131–134

data republics
, 129–131

data resources
, 126–129

#BlackLivesMatter (BLM)
, 26, 30

Blogging
, 112

Boundaries of field
, 6–7, 41, 43

‘Bricolage’
, 107

‘Burrell’s approach
, 64

‘By-products’ of research
, 3–4

Care
, 29

case-based methods
, 146–147

ethics of
, 27

Complexity
, 148–151

Computational research techniques
, 71

Confession
, 106

Confessional cultural object, reading
, 111–113

Confessional poetry
, 112–113

Contemporary cities
, 126

Contemporary media culture
, 2

Contextual integrity
, 29–30

Corporeal feminism
, 92

COVID-19

in Australia
, 45

health information
, 48

pandemic
, 26, 30–31, 40

‘Crafting method’
, 21

Crafting phenomenological research
, 95

Creative data
, 8

Creative writers
, 111

Crisis, wellness discourses in
, 48–49

Criticisms
, 113–114

Cultural chronology
, 91

‘Cultural Economy of Locative Media’
, 17

Curiosity
, 108

Data
, 15, 106, 130, 140, 148, 151

analysis
, 28–29, 133

assemblage
, 77

collection
, 17, 19, 43–44, 61, 76–78, 126

ecology
, 130, 133–134

ghosts
, 9–10

holds memories
, 58–59

impacts
, 126, 131, 134

management
, 124

republics
, 126, 129, 131

resources
, 126

saturation
, 6–7, 15

sets
, 76–78, 142–143

volume and quantity
, 63

Data excess
, 3, 6, 17–18, 56, 88, 125

collecting data, generating excess data
, 17–19

inevitability of data excess in research
, 59–63

method assemblage
, 21–22

parergon
, 19–21

qualitative data
, 14–16

reframing
, 19–22

Data minimalism, epistemic culture of

algorithmic mediation on YouTube
, 71–73

classifying tourism destinations on YouTube
, 78–83

locating place images on YouTube
, 76–78

observing production of place images
, 73–76

Datafication of museums
, 124

Dataism
, 125

Derrida, Jacques
, 14

Digital ‘confessional’ reader
, 113

Digital age, self-fashioning and poetry in
, 113–115

Digital archives
, 60–62

Digital artworks
, 108

Digital atmospheres
, 40–41

Digital context
, 58

Digital cultures
, 3, 64, 111

digital ethnography, relations as fields and ethnographic sensibility
, 63–66

hoarding possessions and personal digital archiving
, 57–59

inevitability of data excess and digital hoarding in research
, 59–63

Digital data
, 2–4, 57–59, 63, 71, 140–141, 145–146, 148–150

collection tools
, 78

excess
, 56–57, 127–128

processing systems
, 125

produce
, 4

Digital disorganisation and excess
, 65

Digital ethnographers
, 26, 60–61

Digital ethnographic field site
, 30–31

Digital ethnography
, 3–4, 40, 42, 56, 63–66, 70–71

affective atmospheres of offcuts
, 44–49

messy boundaries of field
, 41–43

remixed methods for pandemic atmospheres
, 43–44

of travel influencers
, 70–71

Digital Ethnography Research Centre
, 2

Digital excess
, 2, 9

Digital fieldwork
, 56–57, 60

Digital formats
, 4

Digital health interventions
, 150–151

Digital hoarder
, 58

Digital hoarding
, 58–59, 65–66

inevitability of digital hoarding in research
, 59–63

Digital intermediation processes and actors
, 116

Digital interventions
, 148–151

Digital media
, 27

affect, haunting and unexpected discovery
, 8–10

ethics, visibility and waste
, 5–8

towards excessive thinking and writing
, 10

head of
, 128

methodologies of excess in
, 3–5

research
, 2, 56

Digital museum resources
, 127

“Digital pack-rattery”
, 59

Digital platforms
, 64, 70–71, 140–141

Digital politics
, 3

Digital practices
, 3

Digital research(ers)
, 5, 8, 26, 64–65, 149–150

Digital scholars
, 60–61

Digital self-tracking
, 9

Digital spaces
, 107

Digital technologies
, 7, 64

in health
, 140

Digital touch communication
, 90

Digital tourism system
, 129–130

Digital tracking practices, traces of self in
, 33–35

Digital Transformation Lead at Queensland Art
, 127

Digital turn
, 140

Digitalisation of museums
, 124

Digitally mediated interactions
, 40

Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)
, 17, 20–21

Doctoral research projects
, 9

‘Doomscrolling’
, 48

Edinburgh Cultural Map (ECM)
, 131

Embodiment
, 45, 92

Ergon
, 19–20

Ethics
, 5–8

of care
, 27

Ethnographic collection of data
, 92–93

Ethnographic data
, 99–100

Ethnographic research into vlogging
, 70–71

Ethnographic sensibility
, 63–66

Ethnographic tactics
, 75

Ethnography
, 63–64, 75–76, 88, 91, 94

Evaluation of health interventions
, 141–144

Evaluative research
, 144

Evidence-based medicine
, 144

Excess data
, 2, 5–9, 14, 16–19, 59–60, 117, 143–147

generation
, 17–19

microblogging in algorithmic societies of control
, 115–116

reading confessional cultural object
, 111–113

research
, 109–111

reserve data
, 117–118

self-fashioning and poetry in digital age
, 113–115

temporality and research event
, 106–109

Excess digital data
, 106

Exercise
, 47–48

Fabrication
, 98–101

Facebook
, 18, 27, 31, 40, 71–72, 108, 117

#femalerage
, 112–113

Feminist phenomenology
, 88

Fields, relations as
, 63–66

Fieldwork
, 40, 42, 63–64

‘Fitspo’
, 26

fitness inspiration
, 26

on Instagram, young women’s relations with
, 27–30

Foucault, Michel
, 112

Galleries
, 8

Global tourism
, 70–71

Grounded theory
, 14, 19

Haptic(s)
, 89

fabrication and partial translation
, 98–101

haptic experiments
, 96–98

haptic methods
, 94–98

haptic turn
, 89–91

interviews and observations in situ
, 94–95

media
, 95

methods
, 88, 94, 98

mobile media
, 89–91

phenomenology, post-phenomenology and ethnography
, 91–94

turn
, 89–91

Hashtag practices
, 62–63

Health

diet
, 47–48

digital interventions, data and complexity
, 148–151

digital technologies in
, 140

evaluation and programme logics
, 141–144

evidence
, 144–148

interventions
, 140

research
, 56

researcher
, 144

workers
, 3–4

Heritage

institutions
, 125

integration
, 125

sites
, 129–130

Hoarding
, 57

possessions
, 57–59

Images
, 56, 108

Individual practice
, 90

‘Industry stakeholder’ group
, 7

Information centres
, 124

Information saturation
, 46–48

Instagram
, 4, 18, 26–27, 31, 40, 70–71, 78–79

story post
, 45

young women’s relations with ‘fitspo’ on
, 27–30

Instagrammable moments
, 21–22

‘Instapoetry’
, 114

Intercorporeality
, 91–92

Interdisciplinary insights for digital touch communication
, 90

Internet
, 2–3, 149–150

ethnography
, 65

internet-mediated social contexts
, 99–100

Internet of Things (IoT)
, 129

Interventions
, 140

acceptability
, 142–143

Interviews
, 94–95

Intimacy
, 89, 91, 96

Key performance indicators (KPIs)
, 9

Law, John
, 14

Law proposes method
, 21

Law’s response
, 21

Literary studies, drawing on research in
, 106

Locative media industries
, 17

Logic model
, 142–143

Lyall draws
, 26–27

Malaysian travel influencer
, 70

Market research firm
, 18

Markham, Annette
, 4

Media
, 2–3

drawing on research media studies in
, 106

ethnography
, 97–98

produce
, 7

researchers
, 80–83

studies
, 106

Mediated social touch
, 90

Memories
, 9, 58–59

Mental health
, 60

programmes
, 140

services
, 145–146

#mentalhealthmatters
, 112–113

Messaging, instant
, 40

Messiness
, 40–41, 61

Meta (company)
, 40

Metadata
, 61

Method assemblage
, 21–22

Metrics
, 140–141

Microblogging in algorithmic societies of control
, 115–116

Mobile apps
, 97

Mobile device
, 88

Mobile media
, 88–89, 91

research
, 91

usage
, 88

Mobile phone
, 89, 97, 101

Mobile touchscreens
, 89, 91

Moran reflects
, 26

MRT station
, 70

Multistability
, 91–92

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA)
, 133

Museums
, 124, 129–130

data impacts
, 131–134

data republics
, 129–131

data resources
, 126–129

datafication processes
, 125

Netflix’s recommender system
, 71–72

Network(s)
, 64

analysis
, 78–79

data
, 78

nodes
, 78–79

visualisation software
, 78–79

NodeXL Pro
, 78

Non-linear methods of data collection
, 78

Observations in situ
, 94–95

Offcuts, affective atmospheres of
, 44–49

information saturation and responsibilisation
, 46–48

unprecedented times
, 45

wellness discourses in crisis
, 48–49

Opaque production processes
, 77

Open-ended methods of data collection
, 78

‘Orthosomnia’
, 35

Overtourism
, 129–130

Pandemic atmospheres, remixed methods for
, 43–44

Parergon
, 19–21

Partial translation
, 98–101

Participant observation
, 27–28

PayPal (company)
, 72

‘Perish’ culture
, 110–111

Personal digital archiving
, 57–59

Phenomenology
, 88, 91, 94

Photo elicitation techniques
, 17–18

Physical hoarding
, 58–59

Place images, observing production of
, 73–76

Place images on YouTube
, 76–78

Place-bound fieldwork
, 76

Place-making
, 126–127

Platform content
, 75–76

Plath, Sylvia
, 10, 106

created complex
, 107

poetry
, 106

Plath’s poetry
, 113–114

Poetry

in digital age
, 113–115

reading practices
, 117

#poetryislife
, 112–113

Popular culture
, 113

Post-phenomenological approach
, 95

Post-phenomenology
, 88, 91, 94

Postgraduate research
, 110–111

Printing visual data
, 61–62

Productive data
, 8

Programme logics of health interventions
, 141–144

Project combined phenomenology
, 88

Pseudonymity
, 108, 114

Publish culture
, 110–111

Published data
, 16–17

Qualitative data
, 14, 16, 141, 145

published and unpublished data
, 16–17

Qualitative digital researchers
, 40

Qualitative methods
, 94

Qualitative research
, 15

in digital spaces
, 41

methods
, 14

methods
, 16

Qualitative researchers
, 41

Qualitative techniques
, 143–144

Query design
, 76–77

Racism
, 32

Random control trials
, 146

Reade draws
, 26

Reading confessional cultural object
, 111–113

Reddit
, 110

‘Reflexive turn’
, 107

Relational ethnography
, 63–64

Remix method
, 43

Research
, 109–111

data
, 14

event
, 106–109

inevitability of data excess and digital hoarding in
, 59–63

management software
, 3

practice
, 59–60

process
, 2, 25–26

questions
, 6, 15–16, 63

‘Reserve’ data
, 117–118

Responsibilisation
, 46–48

Retelling insights from studies
, 58–59

‘Saturation’
, 15

Science Museum Group (SMG)
, 128

‘Scientific reasoning’ required methods
, 144–145

Screen recording
, 28–29

Screenshots
, 28–29, 44–47

Search-as-research approach
, 76–77

Self-fashioning in digital age
, 113–115

Self-reflexivity
, 93

Self–tracking
, 33–35

“Sensorium”
, 91

Sensory ethnography
, 89–90

Sensory perception
, 91–92

Sexual health programmes
, 140

‘Show-and-tell’ approach
, 33

‘Silosociality’
, 114

Single videos
, 80

Situatedness
, 92

Sleepy tourist
, 70

Smart cities
, 8, 125, 131

data impacts
, 131–134

data republics
, 129–131

data resources
, 126–129

technologies
, 129

Smart maps
, 129

Smart reputation
, 131–134

Smart technologies
, 129

Smart tourism
, 125

Smart urban experiences
, 129–131

‘Smart’ place-making
, 126–129

Snapchat
, 31

Social media
, 56, 64, 132

African Australian youth on
, 30–33

platforms
, 40–41, 116

research
, 60

websites
, 115–116

Social networking sites
, 114

Social networking websites
, 106

Social practices
, 147–148

Social proprioception
, 100–101

Social science methods
, 21

Social space
, 90

‘Sort-of’ friendship
, 31–32

Specificity
, 92

Spotify
, 73–74

Stakeholders
, 127

Storying

approach
, 117

data
, 106–107

Success measures
, 143

‘Surplus’ screenshots
, 41

Tactile digital ethnography
, 90

Technologies
, 89

researchers
, 2–3

Temporality
, 106–109

Thematic coding
, 65

Theory of change
, 142

Three-dimensional framework
, 8

TikTok
, 3–4, 40, 43–44, 60, 116

TMI
, 2–3

Touch

experience of
, 91

figures of
, 90

senses of
, 89

Tourism
, 80

destinations on YouTube
, 78–83

development
, 129

Touristic content
, 70–71

Travel vloggers
, 76

Travel vlogs
, 73–75

Tumblr

culture
, 109, 117

demonstrates
, 115

facilitation of pseudonymity
, 114

meant creative expression
, 108

TV series
, 71–72

Twitter
, 5, 18, 48, 108, 117, 132

Unanticipated excess

African Australian youth on social media
, 30–33

anticipating excess
, 27

contextualising our excess
, 26–27

traces of self in digital tracking practices
, 33–35

young women’s relations with ‘fitspo’ on Instagram
, 27–30

Uncertainty
, 29, 64–65

Unpublished data
, 16–17

Urban areas
, 70–71

Urban locations
, 76–77

Victoria and Albert East
, 132

Victoria and Albert Museum (VAM)
, 128

Video calling
, 40

Video clusters
, 80

Video footage
, 18

Videomaking
, 76

Vignettes
, 26, 99–101

Virtual ethnography
, 65

Visibility
, 5–8

Vlog
, 80

portraying tourist places
, 70–71

Vloggers
, 72

Waste
, 5–8

Wellness discourses in crisis
, 48–49

WhatsApp
, 40

Work on Zoom
, 40

World Health Organization (WHO)
, 47

Writing
, 5, 58, 65–66, 113

Yelp
, 18

Your Feelings Welcome project
, 133

YouTube
, 4, 70–74, 77–79, 150–151

algorithmic mediation on
, 71–73

classifying tourism destinations on
, 78–83

locating place images on
, 76–78

techno-social recommender system
, 80–83

Zoom

drinks
, 40

work on
, 40