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Recent Substack newsletters about qualitative methods and research careers, available open-access.| Salmons.Blog
Recent Substack newsletters about qualitative methods and research careers, available open-access.| Salmons.Blog
By Kate Rich The eScience Staff Spotlight is a series featuring individual members of our team and their career journey. This week’s featured staff member is Senior Social Scientist Anissa Tanweer. From field site to workplace, eScience has come to serve many different roles for Anissa over the years. Being a qualitative interpretivist researcher at […]| eScience Institute
Science proceeds through research communities whose participants share important and often distinctive features of thought and method. This is one of the key insights of the “historical turn” in the philosophy of science initiated in the 1970s (link, link), and it underlies much work within the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies. But what more specifically goes into the “denkkollectiv” (Ludwik Fleck), “research programme” (Imre Lakatos), or “disciplinary m...| Understanding Society
My research has been a culmination of witnessing, participating, and archiving otherwise invisible acts of care, hopeful experimentation, and provisional collaboration that enabled urban survival in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Paying attention to provisional and patchworked modes of response, and offering a partial yet grounded view, created a critical vantage point to examine the evolution of digital platformisation through different phases of the pandemic and beyond. Auto-ethnographi...| Platypus
Each year, thousands of Bay-Area tech workers attend Burning Man: an annual art festival in the Nevada desert. In this article, an ethnographer of AI development joins his interlocutors at the event and reflects on its resonances with the AI industry he studies. He argues that Burning Man’s unique environment and otherworldly experiences can help us think about the AI industry’s aspirations for civilizational transformation.| Platypus
In this article, Lorenzo Skade discusses the emotional difficulties encountered by early-career researchers involved in ethnographic studies within the business and society […]| Social Science Space
'Predators' features Professor Mark de Rond on the controversial practice of exposing alleged child predators through paedophile hunting.| Cambridge Judge Business School
Global Early childhood development (ECD) has become a topic of interest for researchers and policy makers worldwide. This movement, which we call global ECD, claims to bring about economic and societa...| Mad In South Asia
I have long been fascinated by the wars between the European settlers of America and those whom they conquered and displaced, the American Indians. I grew up near a famous battlefield memorial of those wars; maybe that is the reason I have often wondered why it is that in North America, unlike in other conquered| The Worthy House • Towards A Politics of Future Past -
For the first post on lofi hip hop before and during COVID-19, please see here.| Dr Steven Gamble
Kate Winslet’s biopic of Lee Miller, the pioneering woman war photographer, raises some interesting questions about the ethics of fieldwork and their […]| Social Science Space
Co-authors Birgitte Wraae and Nicolai Nybye reflect on the inspiration behind their research article, "Learning to Be “Me,” “the Team,” and “the Company” Through Entrepreneurial Extracurricular Activities: An Ethnographic Approach," published in Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy.| Social Science Space
When, how, and why does collective organizing achieve positive effects for those engaging in this difficult, and oftentimes risky, endeavor?| Public Books
We are looking for a postdoc to work with us on the social foundations of cryptography. This is a two-year full-time position based in London at a salary of £47,978 per annum. We. This postdoc position is part of the EPSRC-funded project “Social Foundations of Cryptography”. The project team consists of: Rikke Bjerg Jensen, who … Continue reading Cryptography Postdoc Position in Social Foundations of Cryptography→| malb::blog
Check out my guest Q&A at the CaMP Anthropology blog, where I interview Michael Prentice about his findings and research process. An organizational researcher, Prentice has just published his o…| Markets, Power, and Culture
