📚 Data Feminism has the best (and perhaps only) definition of positionality I’ve ever seen: “Positionality is a term that describes how individuals come to knowledge-making processes from multiple positions, including race, gender, geography, class, ability, and more. Each of these posi... kimberlyhirsh.com

@kimberlyhirsh such a good book

@kimberlyhirsh I’m teaching data science this semester and will be using their expansive definition of the term to demonstrate that what most people mean by “data science” is more than the sum of its parts.

@spgreenhalgh I love their definition, especially as I'm a qualitative researcher.

@kimberlyhirsh Same! I use plenty of computational techniques, but always with a qual. mindset. I wrote an autoethnography this summer describing why I don’t consider myself a data scientist, and I used Data Feminism to suggest that even autoethnography could be data science 😂

@spgreenhalgh There's data and work is systematic. Boom! Data science!