Tracing the Action of Technical Objects in an Ethnography
Vinyls in Beijing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5811279 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Basile Zimmermann (0000-0002-0080-504X, University of Geneva, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 22-45 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Sociology Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1733-8077 • E-ISSN: 1733-8077 |
| Publisher | University of Lodz Press (PUBLISHER • PL) |
| DOI | 10.18778/1733-8077.3.3.03 |
| OpenAlex | W2536243957 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
To do ethnography implies dealing with the agency of technical objectsi. The aim of this paper is to share a few ideas on how to tackle the one of vinyls in the particular activity that is the mix of a disc jockey. To do so, I first provide a general picture of the work of Xiao Deng, a Chinese disc jockey I observed in Beijing between 2003 and 2004. Then I present three observations of specific events that occured during that period which, I believe, bring into light not only some specificities of the agency of the technical object "vinyl" but also useful information about how one can take into account the agency of objects when doing ethnography
Tracing · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Crafts, Textile, and Design
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |