JOURNAL ARTICLE

Naturing With Big Data: How Writing Creation Myths Can Matter.

  • Published In: Qualitative Inquiry, 2023, v. 29, n. 7. P. 779 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: An, Mihye 3 of 3

Abstract

This article explores a posthumanist ethics of mattering as an alternative methodology for qualitative research with big data, emphasizing writing as a form of mattering. It conceptualizes big data as linguistic matter embedded in relational materiality and subjectivity, challenging traditional epistemologies that treat data as neutral objects. The author illustrates this approach through a course where students created new creation myths by engaging affirmatively with a corpus of eighty existing myths, using objects as speculative tools to navigate and reconfigure meaning. The article concludes by proposing an ethics of "naturing" with big data, which involves careful, creative, and sustainable modes of knowledge production that attend to the complex relationalities and vitality inherent in data and writing.

Additional Information

  • Source:Qualitative Inquiry. 2023/09, Vol. 29, Issue 7, p779
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Religion and Philosophy
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:1077-8004
  • DOI:10.1177/10778004221126701
  • Accession Number:168592495
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