Monday, November 17, 2025

Leurs (2023) Data as Boundary Objects, Datafication as Boundary Work

individual
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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic -------------------------------------------  mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
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group-population

PERSON
SUBJECT

person
[DATA] OBJECT

'Situating data'
inequality

'Conceptual Stepping Stones' -
Social (and Political) 
choreography?


SLAVERY
REGISTERS - PASSPORTS
RACISM
COLONIALISM
FEMINISM

Star .. feminist slogan
“the personal is political.”


Leurs, K. (2023). Data as Boundary Objects, Datafication as Boundary Work. In K. van Es & N. Verhoeff (Eds.), Situating Data: Inquiries in Algorithmic Culture (pp. 123–140). Amsterdam University Press.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376113967_6_Data_as_Boundary_Objects_Datafication_as_Boundary_Work

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_personal_is_political

Situated: Does the 'work' that can be done by a concept vary by definition, according to the (care / knowledge) domain it is found / placed in? Does this is turn influence the 'objects' that are found in the act of crossing(s)?