Our Research Process and Outcomes

In Data Feminism, D’Ignazio and Klein register as core principles data that data feminism “teaches us to value multiple forms of knowledge, including the knowledge that comes from people as living, feeling bodies in the world” and that “the work of data science, like all work in the world, is the work of many hands. Data feminism makes this labor visible so that it can be recognized and valued.”
Two key questions that emerge from these principles in the MAMM Project:
How can close reading proceed collaboratively and be mapped in a digital environment? In doing this work, how can a team of researchers articulate a feminist methodology for data collection?

Methods

Data Collection Priorities:

That the parameters for collecting and assessing textual evidence be clearly defined.
That data collection could proceed asynchronously and yet collaboratively.
That the data collected be usable in future mapping, visualization, and critical interpretation projects.
That the tools be adaptable for future literary studies data collection projects.
That certain core principles of data feminism – namely, “elevate emotion and embodiment” and “make labor visible” (D’Ignazio & Klein 2020) – be foregrounded in the design and use of data collection tools.

Glossary of Terms Tool

Presentations

In Conferences

Neta Gordon, and the MAMM Team. “‘Turning me this way and that’: The Practical and Affective Challenges of Moving Beyond Disciplinarity.” Presentation for the HRI Symposium, Brock University, December 2023.
Olivia Hay and Emily Mills, and the MAMM Team. “Interdisciplinarity as Method: The Space of/in Digital Humanities Research in the ‘Mapping Ann-Marie MacDonald’ Project.” Presentation for ACQL Conference, Online Presentation, June 2024.
Neta Gordon, and the MAMM Team. “Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Geographical Imaginary: Feminist Mapping and Literary Data.” Presentation for CSDH Conference, Université de Montréal, June 2024.

In Workshops

MAMM Team, with Ann-Marie MacDonald. Phase 1 Data Collection Workshop. Rankin Family Pavilion, Brock University, March 2024.

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Publications

In Journals

Neta Gordon, and the MAMM Team. “Case Study: Integrated Close Reading of Spatial Representation in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s The Way the Crow Flies.” To be submitted to DHQ (In progress).

A Bibliography

A searchable collection of works on Ann-Marie MacDonald is available at https://www.ammbibliography.com/