Writings > Methods and Methodology > Ethnography & Archival Research
Below are my publications organized by topics and themes. If you'd like to see a list of writings please click here.
Recent Publications:
Ribes D, Hoffman A, Slota S, Bowker GC (2019 - Online First) The Logic of Domains. Social Studies of Science (SSS).
Ribes D (2018 - Online First) STS, Meet Data Science, Once Again. Science, Technology and Human Values (ST&HV).
Ribes D. 2019. How I Learned What a Domain Was. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 3, No. CSCW, Article 38, November 2019. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 12 pages.
Inman S, and Ribes D (2019) "Beautiful Seams": Strategic Revelations and Concealments. Proceedings of CHI 2019.
Vertesi J and Ribes D (eds. 2019) digitalSTS: A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies. NJ: Princeton University Press.
Click on a link for a PDF of the article or the journal web-page. Updated August 2016.
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Ribes D. (In Press). Materiality methodology and a few tricks of the trade in studying data and samples. In digitalSTS: A Fieldguide. Princeton University Press.
Ribes D. (2014). Ethnography of scaling, or, How to fit a national research infrastructure in the room. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW'14). ACM, 158-170.
Geiger, R. S., & Ribes, D. (2011). Trace Ethnography: Following Coordination through Documentary Practices. Proceedings of the 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
The best example of trace ethnography in action is:
Geiger, S. and D.Ribes (2010). ‘The work of sustaining order in Wikipedia: The banning of a vandal,’ Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Savannah, Georgia, USA, February 6–10.
Stuart Geiger is the master here, and has continued to elaborate the method.
