Is the research medium the message? On the performativity of media within social research

Liegl, Michael; Wagner, Elke

doi:10.1080/1600910x.2013.860611

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“…A volume edited by Wiedmann et al (2020) focuses on the troubles and frictions of working with concepts in STS research practice. STS has been deeply interested in the performativity of media, 'novel' digital devices as well as dominant method devices employed by social scientists (Law et al, 2011;Liegl and Wagner, 2013), recognising the role of materiality and human as well as non-human agency.…”

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Data, Methods and Writing

Lippert

Mewes

2021

S&TS

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Methods have been recognised in STS as mattering for a long time. STS ethnographies establish a boundary object with which STS scholars weave a pattern: From such ethnographic accounts we learn that knowledge is produced locally. Ethnography has over the recent decades been highlighted as a key method in STS. And that STS ethnography is specifically shaped by being often configured to consider its forms of collaboration or intervention in the field. This special issue focuses on how methods matter, specifically on how STS ethnographic collaboration and its data are translated into ethnographic writing, or performative of other reality effects. Exploring STS’s own methods-in-action brings to attention the messy landscape of method practice. Our objective in this exploration is to develop a genre of writing about method that fosters response-ability and enables the audience of research output to position themselves between the research materials and practices that were invested into the study. This special issue hopes to contribute to STS engagement with its methods by way of methodography. Methodography serves as a genre of analytic writing, that articulates specificity and scrutinises the situated practices of producing STS knowledge.

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Data, Methods and Writing

Lippert

Mewes

2021

S&TS

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“…Instead, epistemic practices also rely on technical instruments, spatial architectures, and material arrangements that are taken for granted and therefore are ignored in research reports and publications (e. g., Knorr Cetina 1981; Latour 1987; Latour and Woolgar 1986). While the focus of STS was initially limited to the natural sciences, more recent research has begun to investigate the social sciences (Law 2004; Law and Urry 2004) including qualitative and ethnographic methods (Engert and Krey 2013; Kalthoff 2013; Liegl and Wagner 2013; Schindler and Schäfer 2020; Tutt and Hindmarsh 2011). In applying insights from STS, these studies have offered analyses of the materiality of ethnographic knowledge production, focusing particularly on fieldnotes and on writing practices.…”

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Material Practices of Ethnographic Presence

Laube

2020

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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Ethnographic research is a thoroughly material matter, but the involvement of material things in performing ethnographic methods is hardly investigated. Referring to my own research in various fields of digitalized work, I offer a reflexive analysis of the material production of ethnographic presence. In particular, I reflect on how clothing, field notes, and a camera contribute to making ethnographic research noticeable for and accessible to participants. Taking a practice theory perspective, the article conceptualizes ethnographic presence as a situated performance based on the dramaturgical and embodying contributions of material things. My analysis challenges the idea of openness as an ideal of research ethics that could be realized independently of the material and situated circumstances of fieldwork. It also shows that the material making of ethnographic presence offers particular methodological benefits including epistemic partnerships, insights from staged behavior, and the facilitation of ethnographic data collection.

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Le public et la foule

Wiestler¹,

Barth

2016

Kritische Öffentlichkeiten - Öffentlichkeiten in Der Kritik

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Is the research medium the message? On the performativity of media within social research

Cited by 5 publications

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Le public et la foule

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