Platforms for Issue Mapping: Demonstrating the Relevance for Participatory Social Research

问题映射平台：展示参与性社会研究的相关性

基本信息

批准号：
ES/J010103/1
负责人：
Noortje Suzanne Marres
金额：
$ 5.83万
依托单位：
Goldsmiths University of London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2012 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FJ010103%2F1
关键词：
Platforms Issue Mapping Demonstrating Relevance

项目摘要

Issue mapping offers a set of tools, methods, and techniques for the analysis of current affairs on the Web. An active research community is currently emerging around this approach in the UK as well as internationally, as three platforms for issue mapping have come online in recent years: Issuecrawler, demoscience.org and Mapping Controversies. These web-based platforms make available a range of applications and guidelines for the online location, analysis and visualisation of issues. They offer a distinctive approach to digital social research insofar as they enable forms of 'real-time' research: the online analysis of dynamic content. Issue mapping also entails a participatory approach to social research, as it combines computing techniques with social methods and the design of visual outputs. Issue mapping platforms are currently used in both academic research in leading social science departments as well as by organisations active in issue advocacy, design research and social technology. This project seeks to develop the contribution of issue mapping to digital social research, by enabling exchange among these diverse users and developers of issue mapping. More specifically, its aim is to identify, facilitate and communicate the contribution of issue analysis to the development of participatory and real-time methods of digital social research. In order to identify, facilitate and elaborate the use of issue mapping platforms in digital social research, this project will combine two formats: a) the hosting of workshops that bring together existing and future users and developers of issue mapping, and b) the development of instructional publications on the aims, methods and tactics of issue mapping for social research audiences, broadly conceived. Several workshops and methods courses around online issue mapping have been organised in the UK in recent years, among others at the University of Oxford and Lancaster. These events have mostly concentrated on the transfer of issue mapping skills to researchers and post-graduate students. In the proposed project, the workshop format will be used to identify methodologies of issue mapping in social research in a bottom-up way. Specifically, the workshops will produce issue mappings that exemplify its contribution to participatory social research in three key respects: the calibration of research needs, the re-distribution of analytical competencies in issue mapping, and the relevance of a range of visualisation tactics. Two workshops will bring together users and developers of issue mapping with four different competency profiles: social research, creative computing, issue advocacy, and visual design. The participation of representatives of each of these four competency groupings is crucial to explicate and elaborate the contribution of issue mapping to methodological innovation in digital social research. During the workshops small groupings will explore specific related questions in issue mapping projects: what research needs does and can issue mapping fulfil? how does issue mapping re-distribute analytical competencies among devices, analysts and objects of social analysis? What visualisation tactics are relevant and effective for issue mapping? The groups will develop case studies that will be able to serve as an introduction to digital methods of issue mapping for social researchers. The workshops will produce visual outputs with demonstrational value. as these outputs will form the basis for the creation of two publications: an report for organisational users of issue mapping, and an instructional publication on issue mapping as a digital social research method, both to be developed in the last stage of this demonstrator project.

问题映射提供了一组工具，方法和技术，用于分析网络上的时事。目前，一个活跃的研究社区正在英国和国际上围绕这种方法，因为近年来有三个发行映射的平台已经在线：issuecrawler，demoscience.org和映射争议。这些基于网络的平台为在线位置，问题分析和可视化提供了一系列应用程序和指南。在启用“实时”研究形式的形式：动态内容的在线分析时，他们为数字社会研究提供了独特的方法。问题映射还需要一种参与性的社会研究方法，因为它将计算技术与社会方法和视觉产出的设计相结合。目前，主要的社会科学部门的学术研究以及活跃于发行倡导，设计研究和社会技术的组织都使用了问题映射平台。该项目旨在通过使这些不同的用户和问题映射的开发商之间的交流来开发问题映射对数字社会研究的贡献。更具体地说，其目的是识别，促进和传达问题分析对参与性和实时社会研究方法发展的贡献。为了确定，促进和详细说明在数字社会研究中使用问题映射平台的使用，该项目将结合两种格式：a）托管研讨会，这些研讨会将现有和未来的用户和问题映射的开发商汇集在一起，b）开发了有关社会研究目录的目的，方法和策略的教学出版物。近年来，在英国，在牛津大学和兰开斯特大学举行了一些有关在线问题映射的研讨会和方法课程。这些事件主要集中在发行映射技能向研究人员和研究生的转移上。在拟议的项目中，研讨会格式将用于以自下而上的方式识别社会研究中的问题映射方法。具体而言，这些研讨会将在三个关键方面产生发行映射，以说明其对参与性社会研究的贡献：研究需求的校准，分析能力在发行映射中的重新分布以及一系列可视化策略的相关性。两个研讨会将通过四个不同的能力概况将用户和开发人员汇集在一起：社会研究，创意计算，发行倡导和视觉设计。这四个能力分组中每一个代表的参与对于阐述和阐述了数字社会研究中的方法学创新的贡献至关重要。在研讨会期间，小组将探索问题映射项目中的特定相关问题：研究需求有哪些并且可以发行映射满足？如何在设备，分析师和社会分析对象之间发出映射重新分布分析能力？哪些可视化策略对于发行映射是相关且有效的？这些小组将开发案例研究，以便为社会研究人员介绍数字映射的介绍。研讨会将产生具有示范价值的视觉输出。由于这些输出将构成创建两个出版物的基础：针对问题映射的组织用户的报告，以及有关问题映射作为数字社会研究方法的教学出版物，两者都在此演示者项目的最后阶段开发。