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Journal article
Moving Ethnography: Infrastructuring Doubletakes and Switchbacks in Experimental Collaborative Methods
Science & technology studies (Tampere, Finland), v 34(3), pp 78-102
01 Jan 2021
Abstract
In this article, we describe how our work at a particular nexus of STS, ethnography, and critical theory-informed by experimental sensibilities in both the arts and sciences-transformed as we built and learned to use collaborative workflows and supporting digital infrastructure. Responding to the call of this special issue to be "ethnographic about ethnography," we describe what we have learned about our own methods and collaborative practices through building digital infrastructure to support them. Supporting and accounting for how experimental ethnographic projects move-through different points in a research workflow, with many switchbacks, with project designs constantly changing as the research develops-was a key challenge. Addressing it depended on understanding creative data practices and analytic workflows, redesigning and building technological infrastructure, and constant attention to collaboration ethics. We refer to this as the need for doubletakes on method. We focus on the development of The Asthma Files, a collaborative ethnography project to understand the cultural dimensions of environmental health, and on the Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, digital infrastructure first built to support The Asthma Files but now available as a community resource for archiving, analyzing, and publishing ethnographic data and writing. A key finding is that different traditions and practices of ethnography require different infrastructures.
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- Title
- Moving Ethnography: Infrastructuring Doubletakes and Switchbacks in Experimental Collaborative Methods
- Creators
- Aalok Khandekar - Indian Institute of Technology HyderabadBrandon Costelloe-Kuehn - Rensselaer Polytech Inst, Troy, NY 12181 USALindsay Poirier - University of California, DavisAlli Morgan - Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteAlison Kenner - Drexel UniversityKim Fortun - University of California, IrvineMike Fortun - University of California, IrvinePECE Design Team
- Publication Details
- Science & technology studies (Tampere, Finland), v 34(3), pp 78-102
- Publisher
- Finnish Soc Science & Technology Studies
- Number of pages
- 25
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Politics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000697059500005
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85117133830
- Other Identifier
- 991019170487704721
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- Collaboration types
- Domestic collaboration
- International collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- History & Philosophy Of Science