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Back to Practices and Narratives: Auto-Ethnography as a Practice of Access to Data and Algorithms

Elisabetta Risi, Riccardo Pronzato
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 15
ISBN13: 9781799884736|ISBN10: 1799884732|EISBN13: 9781799884743
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8473-6.ch017
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Risi, Elisabetta, and Riccardo Pronzato. "Back to Practices and Narratives: Auto-Ethnography as a Practice of Access to Data and Algorithms." Handbook of Research on Advanced Research Methodologies for a Digital Society, edited by Gabriella Punziano and Angela Delli Paoli, IGI Global, 2022, pp. 265-279. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8473-6.ch017

APA

Risi, E. & Pronzato, R. (2022). Back to Practices and Narratives: Auto-Ethnography as a Practice of Access to Data and Algorithms. In G. Punziano & A. Delli Paoli (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Advanced Research Methodologies for a Digital Society (pp. 265-279). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8473-6.ch017

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Risi, Elisabetta, and Riccardo Pronzato. "Back to Practices and Narratives: Auto-Ethnography as a Practice of Access to Data and Algorithms." In Handbook of Research on Advanced Research Methodologies for a Digital Society, edited by Gabriella Punziano and Angela Delli Paoli, 265-279. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8473-6.ch017

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Abstract

The role of digital platforms in everyday life is a concern within different research fields; therefore, several authors have supported the need to investigate them and their underlying meshing of human and computational logic. In this chapter, the authors present a methodological proposal according to which auto-ethnographic diaries can be fruitfully employed to examine the relationship between individuals and algorithmic platforms. By drawing on a critical pedagogy approach, they consider auto-ethnography both as a practice of access to algorithmic logics through rich first-hand data regarding everyday usage practices as a response to datafication. The core idea behind this narrative method is to use inductive self-reflexive methodological tools to help individuals critically reflect on their daily activities, thereby making their consumption of algorithmic contents more aware and allowing researchers to collect in-depth reports about their use of digital platforms and the following processes of subjectification.

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