Hello, Tracey -- I've been working on "critical reverse engineering" as a method for the study of software and platforms. I am still writing it out as a method, but I do have this paper http://fou.ubiquitypress.com/articles/abstract/10.16995/lefou.26/ which connects CRE to Foucaultian genealogy. In addition, Amanda Friz and I focus on "sign up interfaces" in Pinterest in this paper: http://mcs.sagepub.com/content/38/5/686 I think our approach was similar to Light and Burgess's App walkthrough. I lay out the overall idea of CRE in other works, but not so much the method per se. I hope these help -- in fact, please let me know if they do! Regards, Rob On 09/13/2017 02:52 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:
Greetings all;
I am looking for research methodologies to study things like data flow lines, systems, platforms, following data trails, IoT and data, etc.
Things like:
- Applied theory - Walkthrough methods - Ethnographic (of systems/orgs/platforms but not of social media) - and etc.
We have lots of great theory, but hard to find some research methods. Any intel would be most helpful.
At the moment it is about looking at utility and transportation grids and meters and sensors in a smart city context. But it could also be something similar in a precision agriculture context.
Cheerio t