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Inventive methods : the happening of the social / edited by Celia Lury and Nina Wakeford.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publisher: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014Edition: Paperback editionDescription: xiii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780415721103
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 300.72 LU.I 2014 23
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Contents:
1. Introduction : a perpetual inventory / Celia Lury and Nina Wakeford -- 2. Anecdote / Mike Michael -- 3. Category / Evelyn S. Ruppert -- 4. Configuration / Lucy Suchman -- 5. Experiment : abstract experimentalism / Steven D. Brown -- 6. Experiment : the experiment in living / Noortje Marres -- 7. List / Andrea Philips -- 8. Number / Helen Verran -- 9. Pattern, patterning / Janis Jefferies -- 10. Pattern / Paul Stenner -- 11. Photo-image / Vikki Bell -- 12. Phrase / Matthew W. Fuller and Olga Gurionova -- 13. Population / Cori Hayden -- 14. Probes / Kirsten Boehner, William Gaver and Andy Boucher -- 15. Screen / Abdoumaliq Simone -- 16. Set / Adrian Mackenzie -- 17. Speculation : a method for the unattainable / Luciana Parisi -- 18. Tape recorder / Les Back.
Summary: Social and cultural research has changed dramatically in the last few years in response to changing conceptions of the empirical, an intensification of interest in interdisciplinary work, and the growing need to communicate with diverse users and audiences. Methods texts, however, have not kept pace with these changes. This volume provides a set of new approaches for the investigation of the contemporary world. Building on the increasing importance of methodologies that cut across disciplines, more than twenty expert authors explain the utility ...
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction : a perpetual inventory / Celia Lury and Nina Wakeford -- 2. Anecdote / Mike Michael -- 3. Category / Evelyn S. Ruppert -- 4. Configuration / Lucy Suchman -- 5. Experiment : abstract experimentalism / Steven D. Brown -- 6. Experiment : the experiment in living / Noortje Marres -- 7. List / Andrea Philips -- 8. Number / Helen Verran -- 9. Pattern, patterning / Janis Jefferies -- 10. Pattern / Paul Stenner -- 11. Photo-image / Vikki Bell -- 12. Phrase / Matthew W. Fuller and Olga Gurionova -- 13. Population / Cori Hayden -- 14. Probes / Kirsten Boehner, William Gaver and Andy Boucher -- 15. Screen / Abdoumaliq Simone -- 16. Set / Adrian Mackenzie -- 17. Speculation : a method for the unattainable / Luciana Parisi -- 18. Tape recorder / Les Back.

Social and cultural research has changed dramatically in the last few years in response to changing conceptions of the empirical, an intensification of interest in interdisciplinary work, and the growing need to communicate with diverse users and audiences. Methods texts, however, have not kept pace with these changes. This volume provides a set of new approaches for the investigation of the contemporary world. Building on the increasing importance of methodologies that cut across disciplines, more than twenty expert authors explain the utility ...

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