Researching infrastructures through the self : autoethnography as a meaningful tool for infrastructure analysis from the margins / Katta Spiel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spiel, Katta, author.

Series:

Sage Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research.

Sage Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marginality, Social.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2024.

Summary:

Databases comprise the backdrop under which digital infrastructures facilitate political, commercial, and transactional interactions between humans and organizations along gendered norms. In my work investigating those databases, I used the systematic investigations of my own experiences as a nonbinary person encountering these systems. Such an autoethnographic approach allows for specific perspectives often marginalized in more generalizing paradigms. My case study investigates the complex dynamics involved in encountering digitized web forms and the associated digital infrastructures as a person whose gender is legally not covered within the binary. In that, the study illustrates how powerful autoethnographies can be particularly in allowing for a personal point of view. Through reflecting on the epistemological and methodological opportunities and constraints of my previous work, this case study provides guidance to researchers interested in understanding the kinds of research that are conducive to autoethnographic methods, which different interpretations there exist, how to specifically work with autoethnographies inspired by queer theories and fueled by queer lives, and the ethical considerations involved therein.

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ISBN:

1-5296-8291-6

9781529682915

OCLC:

1428169233