Studying datafication focusing on the microlevel of everyday life poses epistemological and methodological challenges. Indeed, the black-boxed nature of algorithms makes data inaccessible and unintelligible to the researcher. Therefore, this paper aims to advance a methodological proposal for addressing the situatedness of datafication in everyday life by framing mediatised relations as a proxy for data relations. In particular, this research adopts a “non-media-centric” approach and frames families as communicative figurations. By reporting a qualitative longitudinal study on the datafication of childhood and family life involving 20 families with at least 1 child aged 8 years or younger in Italy and by employing a mixed method constructivist grounded theory methodology that includes network methods, we analyse three families as exemplary of different network articulations. Such an approach, we argue, can help materialise the mediatised relations through, about, and around data that emerge in contemporary family life.

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将数据关系置于数据化家庭中：一种方法论方法

研究关注日常生活微观层面的数据化提出了认识论和方法论的挑战。事实上，算法的黑盒性质使得研究人员无法访问和理解数据。因此，本文旨在通过将媒介化关系构建为数据关系的代理，提出一种方法论建议，以解决日常生活中数据化的情境。特别是，本研究采用“非媒体中心”的方法，将家庭视为交流的表征。通过报告一项关于童年和家庭生活数据化的定性纵向研究，涉及意大利 20 个至少有 1 名 8 岁或以下儿童的家庭，并采用包括网络方法在内的混合方法建构主义扎根理论方法，我们分析了三个家庭作为典范不同的网络关节。我们认为，这种方法可以帮助通过、关于和围绕当代家庭生活中出现的数据实现媒介化关系。