Absent Data : Engagements with Absence in a Twitter Collection Process

• This paper considers the ways in which silences and absences are a central part of research that relieson automated data collection from social media or the internet. In recent years, automated data collection driven or supported research methods have gained popularity within the social sciencesand humanities. With thisincrease in popularity, it becomes ever more pertinent to consider how toengage with digital data, and how both engagementand data are situated, messy,and contingent. Based on experiences with “missing”data, thispaper mobilizes the framework of hauntology to make sense of what relationships may be builtwith missing dataand how silences haunt research practices. Ultimately, we argue that it is possible to reimagine absent data not as a limitation but as an invitation to reflect on and establish new methods for working with automated data collections.

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Annan humaniora -- Kulturstudier (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Other Humanities -- Cultural Studies (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Twitter

hauntology

absence

ghosts

data

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