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The grounded theory method to study data-enabled activism against corruption: Between global communicative infrastructures and local activists’ experiences of big data
European Journal of Communication ( IF 1.8 ) Pub Date : 2020-05-06 , DOI: 10.1177/0267323120922086
Alice Mattoni 1
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Anti-corruption efforts from the grassroots that make use of digital media to hinder corrupt behaviors are flourishing worldwide. In many cases, these efforts see activists interact with big data along with other types of data. They do this in the framework of broader communicative infrastructure in which activists create, employ, and spread big data to support their struggles. As well, they do so differently, according to a diverse range of activists’ local situations across the world. The article uses examples of anti-corruption efforts in Brazil, India, and Spain to illustrate how the grounded theory method might help researchers to produce knowledge that escapes a universalistic and global vision of datafication detached from activists’ lived and local experiences. The article first briefly outlines what grounded theory is, the main steps in a grounded theory study, and its applications in media and communication studies. It then moves to a broader discussion of two relevant elements of grounded theory – sensitizing concepts and theoretical sampling – in taking into consideration data-enabled activism as an emergent phenomenon that might take many shapes. Then, it considers the emphasis on the situation in which data-enabled activism spreads out through a brief discussion of one relevant development of grounded theory, which is situational analysis, to solve the tension between the global and the local in data-enabled activism.

中文翻译:

研究基于数据的反腐败激进主义的扎根理论方法:在全球交流基础设施和当地激进主义者的大数据经验之间

来自基层的利用数字媒体阻止腐败行为的反腐败工作正在世界范围内蓬勃发展。在许多情况下,这些努力使活动家与大数据以及其他类型的数据进行交互。他们在更广泛的交流基础设施框架内做到这一点,活动家在其中创建、使用和传播大数据来支持他们的斗争。同样,根据世界各地各种活动家的当地情况,他们的做法也不同。本文使用巴西、印度和西班牙反腐败工作的例子来说明扎根理论方法如何帮助研究人员产生知识,从而摆脱与活动家的生活和当地经验分离的普遍性和全球数据化视野。文章首先简要概述了扎根理论是什么,扎根理论研究的主要步骤及其在媒体和传播研究中的应用。然后,它转向对扎根理论的两个相关要素——敏感概念和理论抽样——进行更广泛的讨论,同时考虑到数据驱动的激进主义作为一种可能有多种形式的新兴现象。然后,它通过简要讨论扎根理论的一个相关发展,即情境分析,考虑强调数据支持的激进主义传播的情况,以解决数据支持的激进主义中全球与本地之间的紧张关系。然后,它转向对扎根理论的两个相关要素——敏感概念和理论抽样——进行更广泛的讨论,同时考虑到数据驱动的激进主义作为一种可能有多种形式的新兴现象。然后,它通过简要讨论扎根理论的一个相关发展,即情境分析,考虑强调数据支持的激进主义传播的情况,以解决数据支持的激进主义中全球与本地之间的紧张关系。然后,它转向对扎根理论的两个相关要素——敏感概念和理论抽样——进行更广泛的讨论,同时考虑到数据驱动的激进主义作为一种可能有多种形式的新兴现象。然后,它通过简要讨论扎根理论的一个相关发展,即情境分析,考虑强调数据支持的激进主义传播的情况,以解决数据支持的激进主义中全球与本地之间的紧张关系。
更新日期:2020-05-06
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