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This chapter contributes to debate on the body and method within qualitative research. It argues that social science engagement with the arts and the relatively unmapped terrain of the digital body has the potential to open up new spaces, questions and methods that can inform social science methodological innovation . I make this argument by exploring how the body in the context of digital technologies was understood and researched across the arts and social sciences, drawing on examples from the MIDAS project. The chapter shows how working across the arts and social sciences can be a catalyst for methodological innovation and explores how working across these boundaries can generate creative thematic synergies for researching the digital body.
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Jewitt, C. (2017). Methodological Innovation, Creativity and the Digital Body. In: Broadhurst, S., Price, S. (eds) Digital Bodies. Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95241-0_17
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