Dwelling as method: Lingering in/with feminist curated data sets on Instagram

This article proposes and delineates “digital dwelling” as one method of grappling with a central methodological challenge that we, as feminist researchers, face of how researchers might account for the multiple entanglements of affect, history, culture, politics, and resistance within feminist dig...

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Main Authors: Brianna I. Wiens, Shana MacDonald
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Language:English
Published: DIGSUM 2024-05-01
Series:Journal of Digital Social Research
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Online Access:https://publicera.kb.se/jdsr/article/view/32146
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description This article proposes and delineates “digital dwelling” as one method of grappling with a central methodological challenge that we, as feminist researchers, face of how researchers might account for the multiple entanglements of affect, history, culture, politics, and resistance within feminist digital media artifacts. Using our method of digital dwelling, we analyze three sets of carousel posts on Instagram from three different accounts: Intersectional Environmentalist Collective, For the Wild, and Richa Kaul Padte. We explore how the inter, para, and meta-textual arguments curated through these carousel posts change the ways audiences relate to one another and to the current political moment, and how audiences, including individual researchers, are situated in affective and embodied ways within the research scene. By demarcating small, embodied data curation as a key space of method and analysis, we suggest that the personal relationships we develop in community as researchers with located acts of transgression, like these posts, are significant to consider more fully through their emergent intertextualities, especially for those invested in contemporary social media, protest, and visual cultures.
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spelling doaj-art-ec00ebfbe8d8414ab1812153bd836a132025-08-20T02:18:43ZengDIGSUMJournal of Digital Social Research2003-19982024-05-016210.33621/jdsr.v6i2.211Dwelling as method: Lingering in/with feminist curated data sets on InstagramBrianna I. Wiens0Shana MacDonald1University of Waterloo, Canada University of Waterloo, Canada This article proposes and delineates “digital dwelling” as one method of grappling with a central methodological challenge that we, as feminist researchers, face of how researchers might account for the multiple entanglements of affect, history, culture, politics, and resistance within feminist digital media artifacts. Using our method of digital dwelling, we analyze three sets of carousel posts on Instagram from three different accounts: Intersectional Environmentalist Collective, For the Wild, and Richa Kaul Padte. We explore how the inter, para, and meta-textual arguments curated through these carousel posts change the ways audiences relate to one another and to the current political moment, and how audiences, including individual researchers, are situated in affective and embodied ways within the research scene. By demarcating small, embodied data curation as a key space of method and analysis, we suggest that the personal relationships we develop in community as researchers with located acts of transgression, like these posts, are significant to consider more fully through their emergent intertextualities, especially for those invested in contemporary social media, protest, and visual cultures. https://publicera.kb.se/jdsr/article/view/32146social mediavisual methodsdigital cultureactivism
spellingShingle Brianna I. Wiens
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Dwelling as method: Lingering in/with feminist curated data sets on Instagram
Journal of Digital Social Research
social media
visual methods
digital culture
activism
title Dwelling as method: Lingering in/with feminist curated data sets on Instagram
title_full Dwelling as method: Lingering in/with feminist curated data sets on Instagram
title_fullStr Dwelling as method: Lingering in/with feminist curated data sets on Instagram
title_full_unstemmed Dwelling as method: Lingering in/with feminist curated data sets on Instagram
title_short Dwelling as method: Lingering in/with feminist curated data sets on Instagram
title_sort dwelling as method lingering in with feminist curated data sets on instagram
topic social media
visual methods
digital culture
activism
url https://publicera.kb.se/jdsr/article/view/32146
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