TY - JOUR AU - Khandekar, Aalok AU - Costelloe-Kuehn, Brandon AU - Poirier, Lindsay AU - Morgan, Alli AU - Kenner, Alison AU - Fortun, Kim AU - Fortun, Mike AU - The PECE Design Team, PY - 2021/09/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Moving Ethnography: Infrastructuring Doubletakes and Switchbacks in Experimental Collaborative Methods JF - Science & Technology Studies JA - S&TS VL - 34 IS - 3 SE - Special Issue: Methodography of Ethnographic Collaboration DO - 10.23987/sts.89782 UR - https://sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi/article/view/89782 SP - 78-102 AB - <p>In this article, we describe how our work at a particular nexus of STS, ethnography, and critical theory—informed by experimental sensibilities in both the arts and sciences—transformed as we built and learned to use collaborative workflows and supporting digital infrastructure. Responding to the call of this special issue to be “ethnographic about ethnography,” we describe what we have learned about our own methods and collaborative practices through building digital infrastructure to support them. Supporting and accounting for how experimental ethnographic projects <em>move—</em>through different points in a research workflow, with many switchbacks, with project designs constantly changing as the research develops—was a key challenge. Addressing it depended on understanding creative data practices and analytic workflows, redesigning and building technological infrastructure, and constant attention to collaboration ethics. We refer to this as the need for doubletakes on method. We focus on the development of The Asthma Files, a collaborative ethnography project to understand the cultural dimensions of environmental health, and on the Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, digital infrastructure first built to support The Asthma Files but now available as a community resource for archiving, analyzing, and publishing ethnographic data and writing. A key finding is that different traditions and practices of ethnography require different infrastructures.</p> ER -