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Practices and Curations

Voicing Concerns: (Re)Considering Modes of Presentation

Pages 542-551
Received 17 Jun 2016
Accepted 05 Jul 2016
Published online: 19 Aug 2016
 
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How do we use empirical data? How do we present them? And, what work does data do? These questions are particularly pertinent for researchers who use voices from participants, such as interview or focus group data. For scholars who explore the spatialities of the social world, we must ask how we can make such data speak for and about such complexities. The problem of data presentation persists—particularly because the conventional outputs of choice such as the conference paper or the traditional academic journal article still restrict what can be achieved in allowing participant voices to be heard. This article explores how scholars might use data in more experimental and creative ways, suggesting what work such presentation methods might do in helping our research speak. It considers how one method, the data ensemble, might be used to effectively present qualitative material with breadth and depth to both demonstrate analysis and provoke thought.

我们如何使用经验数据?如何呈现这些数据?以及数据能做些什麽?这些问题对于运用来自参与者的声音,例如访谈或焦点团体数据的研究者而言特别密切相关。对于探讨社会世界的空间性的学者而言,我们必须探问如何让这些数据诉说此般复杂性,并为其发声。数据呈现的问题却仍持续存在——特别是由于传统的输出选择,诸如会议论文或传统的学术期刊文章,仍然限制了让参与者的声音被听见时能够获得的成果。本文探讨学者如何能够以更为实验性和创造性的方式使用数据,并指出此般呈现方法如何可能协助我们的研究进行发声。本文考量“数据整体”之方法,如何有效地用来呈现具深度及广度的质性材料,以同时显示分析并激发思考。

¿Cómo utilizamos los datos empíricos? ¿Cómo los presentamos? Y, ¿cuál es el oficio de los datos? Estas preguntas son particularmente pertinentes para investigadores que usan las voces de los participantes, por ejemplo, los datos que se obtienen en entrevistas o de un grupo focal. Como eruditos que exploramos las espacialidades del mundo social, debemos preguntarnos qué hacer para que esos datos hablen dentro de tales complejidades y acerca de las mismas. El problema de la presentación de datos persiste – particularmente debido a que la producción convencional seleccionada, como el trabajo de una conferencia o el artículo para una revista académica tradicional, todavía restringe lo que se pudiere lograr al permitir que las voces de los participantes puedan ser oídas. Este artículo explora el modo como los eruditos podrían usar los datos de maneras más experimentales y creativas, preguntándose cuál oficio deberían cumplir tales métodos de presentación para ayudar a que hable nuestra investigación. En el artículo se considera la manera como un método, el del ensamble de datos, podría utilizarse para presentar efectivamente materiales cualitativos de suficiente amplitud y profundidad para demostrar análisis y a la vez provocar pensamiento.

FUNDING

The data presented in this article come from the wider research project, “‘Fear-Suffused Environments’ or Potential to Rehabilitate? Prison Architecture, Design and Technology and the Lived Experience of Carceral Spaces,” funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC; Project reference: ES/K011081/1). The project investigators are Professor Yvonne Jewkes (University of Brighton, UK) and Dr. Dominique Moran (University of Birmingham, UK).

Additional information

Funding

The data presented in this article come from the wider research project, “‘Fear-Suffused Environments’ or Potential to Rehabilitate? Prison Architecture, Design and Technology and the Lived Experience of Carceral Spaces,” funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC; Project reference: ES/K011081/1). The project investigators are Professor Yvonne Jewkes (University of Brighton, UK) and Dr. Dominique Moran (University of Birmingham, UK).

Notes on contributors

Jennifer Turner

JENNIFER TURNER is a Research Associate in the School of Applied Social Science, University of Brighton, Brighton BN1 9PH, UK. E-mail: . She is also an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TT, UK. Her research focuses on the spaces, practices, and representations of incarceration, past and present.
 

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