Dwelling with feminicide data
Digital methods for feminist research
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https://doi.org/10.33621/jdsr.v7i347869Keywords:
social media studies, feminicide, critical data studies, data, digital methodsAbstract
This paper presents an innovative digital research methodology that imbricates feminist, participatory, and computational epistemologies to research the role of data in social contestation. Focusing on the social media conversation about feminicide, specifically on Spanish-speaking Twitter (now X), the study examined a dataset of 2.86 million posts to find which emotions and actions are involved in encounters with data, surfacing the “affective politicality” of data. The research is grounded on digital methods and develops through moments—personal and collective, human and computational, extended and focused—of “dwelling with data” across different research scenes. The contribution of this methodological reflection is to showcase a feminist mode of digital social research that integrates participation, encounter, emotion, and ethical commitment in the production of knowledge about and with the digital.
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