Fellow Workshop 04/2022
Report
First Fellow Visit in Hamburg
As the first Fellow visitor in Hamburg in April 2022, Ina Dietzsch was the first to experience the demo version of the Tool Suite and turn her research perspective into user stories. Ina Dietzsch presented her research with different kinds of mapping such as abstract and relational maps according to Adele Clarke.
The exchange was focused on understanding her approach to discourse analysis, which differs from our project’s approach to discourse analysis in the sociology of knowledge and follows the methodological elaborations of the situational analysis according to Adele E. Clarke. Different mapping designs are used to capture all perspectives of a discourse situation and its social worlds, thus illustrating actors as well as social worlds and their relations. This dialogue allowed new ideas to be incorporated into the implementation of the Tool Suite. In the exchange with Ina Dietzsch, reflections on the usability and inclusion of different visual representations of multimodal data in network maps in the sense of situational maps for DWTS came up. This input invited for further extension and reflection on interactive design of knowledge orders and to facilitate the work of researchers through productive use of automatisms. The question of how the connection between human and machine can be further developed in mutual understanding arose. Furthermore, the importance of transparent technical processes that can be understood by the human researcher was pointed out: Making the processes that run in the background of the program visible and comprehensible in such a way that control of the research data remains with the researcher and no black box situation arises.