complexities, methods, ethics & possibilities for building better

digital futures

Annette Markham@annettemarkham

Professor MSO, Information Studies

Aarhus University, Denmark

Affiliate Professor of Digital Ethics: School of Communication

Loyola University, Chicago

Studying the “not quite yet”

1. Are our methods of sensemaking adequate?

2. Do our methods focus on the right sort of ethics?

3. How can we translate traditional methods into frameworks that better fit into complex contemporary mediated contexts?

4. What possibilities might emerge with a future-oriented approach to inquiry, in both process and product?

methods

Rethinking methods of inquiry

methods

Epistemological and Political Conditions for inquiry

Everyday practice of inquiry

Rethinking methods of inquiry