What is the difference between (sociological) ethnography and history? In taking a methodological course in each of these disciplines this semester I’ve been attempting …

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Week eight: what accounts for the recent spate of scandal surrounding “facts, fictions, and fraud” in American historical scholarship? How might knowledge of these episodes …

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I’m now in my third year at NYU; the first and second year exams are done, and after this semester I will have satisfied …

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The Professional-Lurker mentions Tales of the field: on writing ethnography (Van Maanen 1998), which I highly recommend for “practicum” reading. I’m presently reading another …

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In addition to the books I read when I first arrived at graduate school I’ve encountered a few other highly useful guides that encourage …

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Yesterday I read a chapter from Gabriella Coleman’s dissertation on the Debian community. (She co-authored a piece with Mako in the M/C Journal …

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In BibTex, how does one represent the paragraph number for a citation in online – non-paginated – articles? Some journals request that citations indicate the paragraph number …

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As someone who is interested in studying and citing email conversations, the opacity of the mailman interface – or the lack of my understanding – is a …

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An example of how frustrating reliance on bad technology can be consider the following. NYU publishes a course catalog for the subsequent semester. However, NYU …

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At this point, most of my work is going into the monster mind-map (java); otherwise, I really enjoyed working on two of the papers below …

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