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From co-location to co-presence: Shifts in the use of ethnography for the study of knowledge.
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Social Studies of Science (Sage Publications, Ltd.) . Jun2010, Vol. 40 Issue 3, p453-470. 18p. - Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- Ethnography has been successfully deployed in science and technology studies, and more specifically in laboratory studies. By using co-presence rather than co-location as a starting point to conceptualize and articulate fieldwork, new aspects of knowledge production are foregrounded in ethnographic studies. This research note proposes and discusses co-presence as an epistemic strategy that pays close attention to non-lab based knowledge production that can embrace textuality, infrastructure and mediation, and that draws into relief the role of ethnographer as author, participant-observer and scholar. Furthermore, co-presence as an approach to doing fieldwork generates new prospects for the study of knowledge production. It enables STS to develop the ethnographic study of highly mediated, distributed or non-lab-based fields, such as the humanities, e-research and e-science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03063127
- Volume :
- 40
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Social Studies of Science (Sage Publications, Ltd.)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 50914588
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312709359219