An object of study is constructed. This means that a range of disparate empirical phenomena have to be constituted as a problem, and the problem has to be located at the approaprate level of abstraction and complexity.
Often this begins by problematizing another’s problematization, that is, one problematizes the way in which the Harper Government in Canada has problematized the issue of copyright reform, in particular the notion of intellectual rights in the era of digitalized information.