ABSTRACT
This chapter explores designing case studies for digital contexts via iteration. Via iterative bounding, scholars initially set temporal, spatial, and ethical boundaries around their case to write up the research but these boundaries are flexible. Rather than establishing boundaries ahead of a research investigation, a case study with an entity at its center seeks to represent the phenomena on its own terms without a predetermined framework. The second half of the chapter discusses eight considerations for iterative design: (1) users, (2) interfaces (3–4) websites development and computer code, (5) software/applications, (6) databases, (7) computational models/algorithms and (8) infrastructure.
