Research design, what even is that?
… structured, rigorous curiosity Also guess who’s convening the Research Design course come the semester start. A challenge in teaching…
The illicit gift and the offer you cannot refuse
The Gift by Marcel Mauss is one of the most profound essays in sociology and anthropology. Mauss was interested in…
The real steal
In what sense is crime a coherent action category? There is the positivist sense that there is a state defined…
I know you don’t want to talk about ontology so I plan to make you
Ontology and epistemology are two dimensions of research that are easily despatched in a sentence yet which give every research…
Once more into the uncanny valley my friends, once more
Our first autonomous robot arrived in the house last week. It is a wee fellow, hugging the ground as if…
The bedroom code – domesticating digital crime
Street encounters and digital encounters are hybrids. Trying to understand them separately will trip the ethnographer up (Lane, 2018). Lane…
Social media’s inverted layer
… the heat is on the bottom level It has been a norm that in the UK we expect public…
Institutions don’t exist
… in the abstract and also not literally in the concrete It’s a delusion of a certain type of policy…
Digital sparseness and digital innovation in South Africa
Much of what I’m writing about here I owe to the insights and research of my colleagues Alex Wafer, Kirstin…
Questions about reading which are really about you, the reader, but are also about me, the writer
The kind of reading you do matters a lot to the kind of scholarship you are doing. The classic image…
