Ethnographies of Journalism

The latest issue of Ethnography (I should say, latest in my slow world, its from March of 2006) is a special issue (SAGE publications) on ethnography of Journalism, edited by Dominic Boyer and Ulf Hannerz. For those of you who long for a meatier analysis of contemporary journalism than “blogs are destroying conventional journalism” or “journalism is dead, long live journalism” then this might be it. One of the great virtues of it is that it has a wonderful mix of fieldsites across the various articles; it reads kind of like a SciFi World Cup 2012: Sweden v. India; Palestine vs. Ghana; EU vs. WTO.

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Christopher M. Kelty is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has a joint appointment in the Institute for Society and Genetics, the department of Information Studies and the Department of Anthropology. His research focuses on the cultural significance of information technology, especially in science and engineering. He is the author most recently of Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software (Duke University Press, 2008), as well as numerous articles on open source and free software, including its impact on education, nanotechnology, the life sciences, and issues of peer review and research process in the sciences and in the humanities.

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