RESEARCHMy current program of research is organized around what I call the three F’s of data: failure, futurity, and friction. My work is concerned with the social, political and economic processes that normalize behaviours and attitudes about the value of datafication, and how systems of power, in/justice and in/equity are sustained by the quantification of collective life. Three themes underscore my work. These are: 1) an effort to understand the material or physical characteristics (i.e. materiality) of data cultures; 2) an exploration of the social, political, economic, and technological relationships (i.e. relations of production) that produce and govern data paradigms, networks and infrastructure; and, 3) a critical engagement (i.e. reflexivity) with processes of knowledge production in scholarly research, and with the ways in which academic practices, methods and tools shape how we understand and represent the world. |