Ethnography upgraded

ML Small - Qualitative Sociology, 2022 - Springer
The basic practice of ethnography has essentially remained unchanged in hundreds of
years. How has online life changed things? I contrast two transformative inventions, the …

Geopolitics in the infrastructural ideology of 5G

Maxigas, N ten Oever - Global Media and China, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper explores how infrastructural ideologies function as tools in geopolitical struggles
for dependence and independence between world powers. Meese et al.(2020) suggest that …

[HTML][HTML] Citation politics: The gender gap in internet governance

FR Rosa, K Anastácio, MVP de Jesus… - Telecommunications …, 2024 - Elsevier
This article proposes an informed debate on the politics of citation in internet governance
(IG), focusing on gender. To this end, we use the Bibliographic Reference Index (BRI) to …

Code work: Hacking across the US/México techno-borderlands

H Beltrán - 2023 - torrossa.com
In the year 2014, three differ ent collectives of promising young people in Mexico boarded
buses. All three shared a general disillusionment with Mexican po liti cal and economic …

Problems of knowledge, problems of order: the open science field site

LOD Goldensher - Frontiers in Sociology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Ethnographers can and should not just do or not do open science, but study the push to
share data, instruments, and other research materials as an important moment of change …

Synthetic ethnography: Field devices for the qualitative study of generative models

G de Seta, M Pohjonen, A Knuutila - 2023 - osf.io
The development of generative artificial intelligence sustains a proliferation of machine
learning models capable of synthesizing text, images, sounds, and other kinds of content …

Ethnography and Machine Learning: Synergies and New Directions

Z Li, CM Abramson - 2023 - academic.oup.com
Ethnography—social scientific methods that illuminate how people understand, navigate
and shape the real world contexts in which they live their lives—and machine learning …