Ethnographies of Objects in Science and Technology Studies

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Explore the pivotal role of ethnography in uncovering how objects shape and are shaped by science and technology studies (STS). Delve into the material culture of innovation.

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A response by Jessamy Perriam

A response by Jessamy Perriam to Nathan Wittock, Michiel de Krom and Lesley Hustinx' Making Sense of a Messy Object: How to Use Social Topology as an Analytic Tool for Ethnography of Objects

A response by Alev Coban

A response by Alev Coban to Nathan Wittock, Michiel de Krom and Lesley Hustinx' Making Sense of a Messy Object: How to Use Social Topology as an Analytic Tool for Ethnography of Objects

Making Sense of a Messy Object: How to Use Social Topology as an Analytic Tool for Ethnography of Objects

This theoretical-methodological essay seeks to answer the question, “How can one make sense of a messy object?” The denomination “messy” refers to a situation in which the object of ethnographic research is interpretatively complex to such...

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Temporalities of Assembling Transport Systems: Presences and Absences in an Intermittent Process (revised version)

Present absences and absent presences, both in material and discursive shapes, provide insights into the social and political dimensions of infrastructures and their processes of planning, implementing and stabilising. Taking the case of a...

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A response by Göde Both

A response by Göde Both to Malve Jacobsen's Temporalities of Assembling Transport Systems: Presences and Absences in a Planning Process

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Temporalities of Assembling Transport Systems: Presences and Absences in a Planning Process

Presences and absences, both in material and discursive shapes, provide insights into the social and political dimensions of infrastructures and their planning and implementation process. Taking the case of a transport system in Dar es Sal...

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A response by Franziska Weidle

A response by Franziska Weidle to Jessamy Perriam's Ethnography, Objects and Reflexivity: A Case Study of the Selfie Stick

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A response by Nathan Wittock

A response by Nathan Wittock to Dara Ivanova's Losing and Finding: On the Curious Life of Ethnographic Objects

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Accomplishing Autonomous Driving: An Unfinished Description

In his contribution on Accomplishing Autonomous Driving: An unfinished Description Göde Both stresses the multiplicity of possible answers to what his research object might be: an autonomous or self-driving car and its related practices. D...

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Ethnography, Objects and Reflexivity: A Case Study of the Selfie Stick

In her paper on Ethnography, Objects and Reflexivity: A Case Study of the Selfie Stick Jessamy Perriam focuses on how objects of a rather faddish nature such as the selfie-stick might be observed from a Science and Technology Studies persp...

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Losing and Finding: On the Curious Life of Ethnographic Objects

Dara Ivanova´s essay on Losing and Finding: On the curious Life of ethnographic Objects deals with how a researcher’s emotions towards his or her research object can be turned into an epistemological tool when working ethnographically with...