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I discuss how this approach deviates from recent analyses of situations in computational social science, and argue that Clarke\u2019s framework renders tractable a fundamental methodological problem that arises in this area of research: while social researchers turn to computational settings in order to analyse social life, the social processes unfolding in these envirnoments are fundamentally affected by the computational architectures in which they occur. Situational analytics offers a way to address this problematic by making a heterogeneously composed situation \u2013 involving social, technical and media elements \u2013 the unit of computational analysis. 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