‘Researching Knowledge Making Practices in Market Settings: From Creative Spaces to Digital Infrastructures’

This seminar focuses on discussing some methodological issues regarding doing fieldwork in knowledge spaces in markets. In particular, the seminar will present and discuss some of the strategies and devices I have used in order to deal with challenges that distributed knowledge practices and devices posit to an ethnographic approach. The first part of the seminar will consider a 30-40 minutes presentation of some of the research I have done on knowledge practices (with emphasis on my latter project on data mining/transactional data practices). This will be followed by an open discussion in terms of how to design, think and do fieldwork for researching knowledge in the digital age.