Data Excess in Digital Media Research

Data excess — particularly in digital media research — is inevitable. It emerges as the ‘debris’ and ‘leftovers’ from planning, fieldwork and writing; the words cut from drafts and copied to untouched and forgotten files; digital metadata automatically recorded to databases; the data archived but never analysed or published. What do or can we do with this excess from our research? Thinking beyond academic constraints and the constant push towards the next new fundable thing, Data Excess in Digit