Infrastructure and ethnographic practice: Working on the fringes

By bringing together science studies, information science and ethnographic fieldwork in interdisciplinary research the author argues for the relevance of ethnographic practices when studying information systems as infrastructures of communication. Ethnographic fieldwork focuses attention on fringes...

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Published in:Scandinavian journal of information systems 2002-01, Vol.14 (2), p.6
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