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Record W7092227851 · doi:10.1002/pra2.1373

Ethnographic Variations

2025· article· en· W7092227851 on OpenAlexaff

Bibliographic record

VenueProceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAnthropology: Ethics, History, Culture
Canadian institutionsMcGill UniversityUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEthnographyPerspective (graphical)ConversationBannerDiversity (politics)Dialog boxBrainstorming

Abstract

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ABSTRACT Ethnography is not a monolith but a shaggy extended family of research principles and tools that are continually evolving. Our methodological panel aims to explore this reality by illuminating the ethnographic variations that exist across the social sciences, with an eye to their applications in Information Science. The panelists are devotees of these lineages: visual ethnography , sensory ethnography , participatory forms of ethnography, digital ethnography ( netnography ) and multispecies ethnography . To help the audience grasp ethnography's heterogeneity, questions of a defining nature will be posed in turn to the speakers and each will supply a succinct answer from the perspective of their favored tributary. By design, the distinguishing features of each ethnographic variation will come into sharp relief. Following this structured and comparative exchange, a few interactivities will bring attendees into a free‐flowing conversation that enacts the “reflection, debate, and respectful balance” invoked in the Annual Meeting's theme. For example, we will brainstorm other shades of ethnography not yet mentioned; broach the matter of navigating methodological complexity; and air concerns about the shortage of methods training in these niches for students of Information Science. Overall, our panel aims to explore the diversity in play beneath the banner of ethnography and to elevate understanding of ethnography as a spacious, dynamic, multifarious yet welcoming methodological umbrella.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.017
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.031
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.017
Threshold uncertainty score0.090

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0170.031
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0070.009
Science and technology studies0.0070.008
Scholarly communication0.0050.005
Open science0.0020.010
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0160.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.316
Teacher spread0.302 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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