Re-Setting & Re-Tooling: how do we experiment in academia?

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The RUSTlab experiments with re-tooling social science methods to engage well with changing, distributed and heterogeneous socio-technical worlds. Among the well-known and innovative methods, we re-set re-tool, and mix in-depth observations, digital methods, ko-laborationparticipation, walkthroughs, storytelling, visualizations, data storiesscapes, data walks, data journeys, mappings, games, scenarios, emic comparisons, object ethnographies, etc.

We aim to update ethnography for rusty times and technological entanglements: collaboratively, engaging and participatory.

We are thinking about accessing and reusing ethnographic data while staying accountable to our study participants and fields.

Our activitiesformats include:

  • Writing, discussion and reading groups with interdisciplinary friends
  • Deletion poems
  • Photo essays
  • AI struggles
  • Lab meets author sessions
  • Graphic recording
  • Learning dDigital methods (Daniel’s workshop, CAIS workshop, Open Science Foundation, Informatik’19, Seminar!)
  • Fieldwork Crash-Course 
  • Open data spaces

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September 1, 2022

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Mace Ojala and Estrid Sørensen. 1 September 2022, "Re-Setting & Re-Tooling: how do we experiment in academia?", STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 6 January 2025, accessed 8 February 2025. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/re-setting-re-tooling-how-do-we-experiment-academia