On February 21st, I participated in Andrea Ballestero’s workshop – derived from exercises she runs at the Ethnography Studio at Rice University, in Houston, Texas. Andrea worked with us on finding analytic moves that

Afterwards, she and I spoke at a #PublicETHOS event about our experiences of a field experiment she ran with the Ethnography Studio. Here’s the link to the event and the abstract

Twitter and Ethnography: Notes from a Global Experiment
In June 2015, the Rice Ethnography Studio ran an experiment. Their question was this: “What can Twitter do to/for the field?”. Anthropologists and graduate students linked their fieldsites via Twitter, under the hashtag #ESIFRice, in an effort to open conversations about how our fields of enquiry are conceptualised, thinking together about what kinds of new questions the experiment could raise. In this PublicETHOS talk, Andrea Ballestero, convenor of the Rice Ethnography Studio, and Rachel Douglas-Jones co-Head of ETHOS Lab, speak about their different experiences of the experiment, the meaning of the ‘ethnographic tweet’, and the significance of public conversations for ethnographic research.