Kaufmann Mareile, Tzanetakis Meropi
University of Oslo, Norway.
University of Vienna, Austria; University of Oslo, Norway.
Qual Res. 2020 Dec;20(6):927-944. doi: 10.1177/1468794120904898. Epub 2020 Feb 16.
This article contributes to scholarship on digital sociology by addressing the methodological challenge of gaining access to hard-to-reach online communities. We use assemblage theory to argue how collaborative efforts of human participants, digital technologies, techniques, authorities, cultural codes and the human researcher co-determine aspects of gaining access to online subjects. In particular, we analyse how and are assembled in an online research context. This is exemplified by our own experiences of researching hackers that dispute surveillance and the social embeddedness of darknet drug market users. In this article, we demonstrate the utility of an assemblage perspective for understanding the complexities involved in negotiating access to hard-to-reach communities in digital spaces.
本文通过应对获取难以触及的在线社区这一方法论挑战，为数字社会学的学术研究做出了贡献。我们运用组合理论来论证人类参与者、数字技术、技巧、权威机构、文化代码和人类研究者的协同努力如何共同决定获取在线研究对象的各个方面。特别是，我们分析了在在线研究背景下，[具体内容缺失]是如何组合在一起的。我们对质疑监控行为的黑客以及暗网毒品市场用户的社会嵌入性进行研究的自身经历便是例证。在本文中，我们展示了组合视角对于理解在数字空间中协商进入难以触及的社区所涉及的复杂性的效用。
