Ethnographies of Objects


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  • This month’s edition is co-edited by CW Anderson (@chanders), Juliette De Maeyer (@juliettedm) and Heather Ford (@hfordsa). The three of us met in June for the ICA preconference entitled ‘Objects of Journalism’ organised by Chris and Juliette. Over the course of the day, we heard fascinating stories of insights garnered through a focus on the objects, tools and spaces surrounding and interspersed with the business and practice of newsmaking: about faked photographs through the ages, about the ways in which news app designers think about news when designing apps for mobile devices and tablets, and about the evolution of the ways in which news room spaces were designed. We also heard rumblings – rarely fully articulated – that a focus on objects is controversial in the social sciences.

An exchange platform for "trash": Stories from the Object Ethnography Project

An exchange platform for “trash”: Stories from the Object Ethnography Project

Faked photographs and objects of journalism in the late 19th Century

Faked photographs and objects of journalism in the late 19th Century

Objects of Journalism: Bar Rags and the AIDS Virus

Objects of Journalism: Bar Rags and the AIDS Virus

About a bot: Materiality, multiplicity, and memory in the study of software agents

About a bot: Materiality, multiplicity, and memory in the study of software agents

An object of journalism: the hyperlink

An object of journalism: the hyperlink

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