Research Note
From co-location to co-presence: Shifts in the use of ethnography for the study of knowledge
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5771916 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne Beaulieu (0000-0002-2431-8975, Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The Netherlands, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 453-470 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Studies of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0306-3127 • E-ISSN: 1460-3659 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0306312709359219 |
| OpenAlex | W2144274527 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 106 |
| References cited | 61 |
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
Knowledge production · Participant observation · Textuality · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing · Research Data Management Practices
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Mediating ethnography
Documents
Incomplete knowledge
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Nodes and Queries
Laboratory Space and the Technological Complex
Life in Virtual Worlds
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The Manufacture of Knowledge
Situated Knowledges
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Epistemic Cultures
La fusion de laboratoires
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| Unique citing works | 106 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,63 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 105 |