@article{ref1,
title="Assembling the affective field: how smartphone technology impacts ethnographic research practice",
journal="Qualitative inquiry",
year="2013",
author="Doorn, Niels van",
volume="19",
number="5",
pages="385-396",
abstract="This article recounts what happens when an increasingly commonplace technology such as the smartphone is mobilized in ethnographic fieldwork practice, investigating the particular research-related affects and intimacies that are produced by/in this sociotechnical assemblage. I start with a brief account of my research project, after which I discuss the ways in which my smartphone has informed and modulated the different components of my fieldwork, conceived as a heterogeneous practice of logistical and affective labor. In the last two sections, I reflect on the methodological consequences of incorporating a smartphone into ethnographic research and address the question of how this practice prompts a reconsideration of the relation between knowledge production, research intimacies, and mobile technology.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1077-8004",
doi="10.1177/1077800413479566",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800413479566"
}