ABSTRACT

Researchers using ethnographic methods have traditionally claimed that the way methods are closely entwined with the eld and objects of concern is a distinctive trait. The extent of this entwinement can vary; from co-construction, where methods, objects, eld and even ethnographer emerge as part of ethnographic practice (Tsing 2005), to more instrumental versions of this entwinement, where a researcher will expect certain topics or issues of interest to become visible in the course of eldwork (Shar and Stebbins 1990). In this chapter, I will propose an approach to understand accounts of methodological adaptations in ethnographic research, in order to contrast dierent adaptations to digital tools and networked relations within a framing of computationalization (Hayles 2002).