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.

摘要

本文重点关注作为异构组合的基础设施。我们的主张是，要检查像数据基础设施这样难以捉摸的东西，需要一种与研究对象的流动本体一致的认识论和方法论方法。此外，我们断言没有外部性的立场来批评数据基础设施。因此，我们的问题主要是方法论的：我们如何分析数据基础设施的关系性和异构性，以既解决问题又建立在外部性的不可能性之上？我们考察了数据基础设施的两种配置：首先是它们的临时性、分散性和纠缠性，其次是其中所蕴含的情感依恋。总的来说，本文首先，回到关于什么是数据基础设施的本体论和理论观点；其次，对如何研究它们的方法问题做出贡献；第三，发展了一种批评手段，不会将分析师置于批评对象之外，提醒我们数据基础设施的内在关系以及在方法论方法中认真对待这些关系的必要性。本文结合现有的关于教育政策分析数据基础设施和研究方法的文献，以及我们自己的研究数据和第一手经验。提醒我们数据基础设施的内在关系以及在方法论方法中认真对待这些关系的必要性。本文结合现有的关于教育政策分析数据基础设施和研究方法的文献，以及我们自己的研究数据和第一手经验。提醒我们数据基础设施的内在关系以及在方法论方法中认真对待这些关系的必要性。本文结合现有的关于教育政策分析数据基础设施和研究方法的文献，以及我们自己的研究数据和第一手经验。