Moving Ethnography

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 sciences—transformed as built learned to use collaborative workflows supporting digital infrastructure. Responding call special issue be “ethnographic about ethnography,” what have own methods practices through building infrastructure support them. Supporting accounting for ethnographic projects move—through different points research workflow, with many switchbacks, project designs constantly changing develops—was key challenge. Addressing it depended on understanding creative data analytic workflows, redesigning technological infrastructure, constant attention collaboration ethics. We refer need doubletakes method. focus development The Asthma Files, ethnography understand cultural dimensions environmental health, Platform Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, first Files but now available community resource archiving, analyzing, publishing writing. A finding is that traditions require infrastructures.