a second reckoning

a second reckoningThe authors discuss four aspects of ethnographic data around which new methodological and ethical questions have been prompted by techno-social advances. Ideally, the authors demand disciplinary standards that are flexible enough to not punish ethnographers whose projects cannot embrace the push for greater transparancy. An emphasis is placed on making analytical decisions, if not data, more transparant. The authors also push the concept of "reanalysis," whether external or internal to the ethnographer, to help address the "problem" or reproducability that occurs generally within the social sciences and particularly within ethnographic projects that by their very nature capture unique moments in the time/space/affect continuum.