Incomplete knowledge: ethnography and the crisis of context in studies of media, science and technology

This article examines strands of an intellectual history in Media and Cultural Studies and Science and Technology Studies in both of which researchers were prompted to take up ethnography. Three historical phases of this process are identified. The move between phases was the result of particular di...

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Anthropology
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Community Participation - history
Community Participation - psychology
Context
Contextual analysis
Crisis
Cultural Characteristics
Cultural Diversity
Epistemology
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History
History of medicine
History of sociology
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Methodological Problems
Relativism
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Researchers
Science
Science - history
Science and Technology
Scientific Knowledge
Societies - history
Sociology of Culture
Sociology of knowledge
Sociology of Science
Studies
Technology
Technology - history
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